Better Chef Fruit Vegetable Juice Extractor

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I have read all reviews on this product and I guess I have been pretty lucky in that : It never NEVER has leaked, I mainly do carrots and using the flat side of butter knife on back side of screen under COLD water is best, if you use warm water, the root material will expand and stay in more difficult. I LOVE this juicer and since I need to start eating better, juicing and using blender with yogart and blackbeery and blueberry bannana smoothies gives me my daily fruit and fiber added and protein pwder.....I like it so well I plan on buying a couple more as I usually am done Christmas shopping by November. If you do something like carrots and other root veggies and like fruit as well like a V8 Frusion, do your fruit after root veggies and will push and lubricate the root materia stuck in and make it come out or easier. For exrra healthy tips: Use the pulp, esp from carrots, to add to bannana bread or zukini or basic carrot bread but you can eliminate alot if not all the flour for a rather dense fiber muffin and add frozen berries to the muffins in pan before putting in oven so it is a more fresh berrie rather than mush. Potato fiber/mush is a great way of making hash browns that are more like potato pancakes or latkes (SP?) orange and any fruit, the juice emulsified with fiber makes jam, and can be Kosher by not using gelatin but non-animal gelatin found in same place in grocery lemons juiced and the waste is good for putting on fish while baking, be creative since it did not come with any recipe book, reason I gave it one less star.

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This little machine is a good idea but the opening to fit the vegies thru is very small. You 'll have to split your carrots in halve and if they are the big ones you need to split them perhaps one more time. Thats the bad thing i found with this machine. The good thing is that it does work ok as long that you use small veggies . Is it worth the money ? Yes it is. It is good for one or two persons,not for a family of 4.

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I used this product twice. I juced carrots both times. The organic carrots jamed at times, and I had to use a cloth sieve to strain out the finer dregs from the juice that collected in the class container. The juicer 's outer finish was badly stained as well as the inside parts. I am not at all happy with this product because of the stains.

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Bought 2 on separate occassions as the first one failed to operate. Neither did the 2nd one. I followed the directions to the tee and it would not turn on.

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For Starters, Its a great looking devise and very sturdy. It works well as long as you follow instructions to the "T", You do have to cut up your fruits and veggies very small and narrow to fit into the shoot. Cleaning the Strainer/cutter is where you're going to run into a fix. It is hard to clean, a brush is not the answer at all! However, I did try a few things until, I came across a simple butter knife...(the flat end not the cutting end) just use it to scrub gently up and down the strainer while running warm water over the strainer at the same time is the answer. This works best for me....over all I expected more, but this little machine works fine for the price I paid. Just have patients and you will learn to like or love this little machine. This is my first juicer.

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