alright! this is john kohler with discountjuicers.com,today we have another exciting episode for you, and i’m excited today to be doing anotherjuice-off where you guys are going to get to see two juicers compared side by side juicingthe same exact amount of produce. and today we’re juicing one of america’s favoritejuices to drink, that’s the good old oj or orange juice, or in my case orange julius,oh that’s a whole nother video. but orange juice is probably the most drank juice inthe us, i mean since we’re all kids we’ve always had orange juice for breakfast. butit’s really sad, you know when i was a kid we drank a lot of concentrate orange juicefrom frozen, and nowadays you get it in a little carton, and those juices have beenpasteurized, they also may have other additives
such as extra corn syrup or sugars or preservativesand other things in there, plus they’ve been pasteurized and heated to assure thatthere’s no bacterial contamination. and when they do all these things, it lowers theamount of nutrition in there. more specifically, some of the most important nutrients in theorange juice you’re drinking are the antioxidants, you know the vitamin c, the [inaudible] that’sin the white pithy part of the skin, and actually most orange juices aren’t even a full orangejuice, they’re literally an orange water. “john wait man, i’ve been drinking orangewater all these years and you’re going to make an orange juice, what’s the difference?â€well let me go ahead and show you guys. today what we’re going to juice actually is thenavel oranges. navel oranges are best juiced
in the slow juicers or other fruit and vegetablebased juicers. now if you want to make a standard orange juice with the reamer that goes wrrr,wrrr, wrr, or a press style machine, then you want to use a different kind of orangethat we have here so we have a valencia orange. so the valencia oranges are best for actuallypressing out or putting on a reamer, and the navels are better for this kind of juicingwith the slow juicers. once again, by using the valencias, we’re going to make an orangewater and how most orange juices are created they simply take the orange, they cut it inhalf, and then literally what they do is they squeeze out all the juice. so you can seehere i’m just literally squeezing out all the juice of this valencia orange, and yeahit’s actually pretty efficient to do that
and i’ve got a pretty ripe orange and i’mlike arnold schwarzenegger man, i’m so strong i can squeeze the juice out that orange. lookat that, nice cup of orange juice. mmmm. got a seed. that’s pretty good, but that’swhat most orange juices are. now what i want you guys to do is to use your juice extractorsand extract more than just the orange water, i want you to get all the nutrients, bioflavonoids,antioxidants, phytonutrients and phytochemicals that are contained in most of the orange.now where is that? now you guys may have heard when you’re a kid like if you’re eatingapples, most of the nutrition is in the skin of the apple. yes, that’s right, so thecloser you get to the skin that’s where the most nutrition is, and it’s the samein an orange. now unfortunately, on things
like oranges, tangerines and grapefruits wecannot simply eat the skin of an orange, when’s the last time you saw someone bite into anorange like this? [inaudible]. no, you don’t do that man, you always peel the orange first,and this is because for a very important reason, the outside orange coloring, there are indigestiblechemicals in there that’ll give you bad gas, flatulence, and bloating, and also theydon’t taste so good either, they kind of have that citrus orange flavor, i mean ifyou’re a chef you might use a little bit for an orange zest to get that zest, but youwouldn’t eat or consume a large quantity of that stuff. but what is really good isnot the orange coloring per se, but what we want is that white pithy part that’s rightbelow the skin. so how i prepare oranges to
juice them in the juicers, are i’ll basicallytake and i’ll cut off one end, i’ll cut off the other end, then i’ll put the orangeon the side there then i just go with my knife and i’ll just shave down all the orangecoloring. now you can also easily do this with a potato peeler or something like that,i happen to like a knife, it actually works fairly efficient. and what you want to dois you want to remove as much orange coloring as you can while keeping as much white asyou can. and this is working pretty good and i can do a orange actually fairly quicklyin this way, as you guys can see i got most of it, missing a little bit of the bottom,so we’re going to take the knife here and go along the bottom to get all that orangecoloring off, you wouldn’t want to necessarily
juice that stuff. and clean that up a littlebit, and there we go, that’s what it looks like. so here’s an untrimmed orange andhere’s trimmed orange ready for juicing. i’ve retained most of the white pithy partthat has the most nutrition of the entire orange, plus in addition, when you’re juicingthe white part of the orange, it’s not going to make it super-sweet, it’s going to kindof dilute it because if you try to eat the white pithy part on its own, it doesn’ttaste so good it just kind of has like a neutral flavor, not so sweet. but when you juice itand you get the white pithy part with the orange juice, then it totally balances itout and makes the orange juice more mellow, not quite as acidic and a lot more nutrientdense. so that’s what we’re going to juice
today, we’re going to juice oranges thathave been basically de-skinned in both these juicers. i’m going to go ahead and cut upand weigh out equal amounts of the oranges, and we’ll be back at you to show you guysthe weigh-in. now we’re going to do the weigh-ins foryou guys. over on this side we got the omega nc800, this is a horizontal slow auger machine,15 year warranty, larger feed chute than predecessor models, and check it out on the scale lookslike we got 3.468 pounds, that’s seven navel oranges that have been basically the skinremoved. so over on this side we got the tribest slow star juicer, this is a vertical singleauger machine, runs at actually 47 rpms and has a 10 year warranty. and we got once againseven oranges, navels that have been skinned,
and we got the weight is 3.468. all rightso now that we’re weighed in we’re going to go over each one of these machines a littlebit more in detail. let me go ahead and get these scales out of here since we don’tneed them anymore. so now that we got the weigh-in what we’re going to do is we’regoing to go over these juicers just a little bit more. you know i do have videos that i’vemade in the past and i’ll put a link down below this video where i compare these juicersin side-by-side tests previously, but i’ve never juiced oranges in them. now one of thethings that people don’t understand is that there’s a juicer that may be best for you,every juicer’s a little bit different, like if you’re a lady how many pairs of shoesdo you own, and if you’re a guy how many
screwdrivers do you have right? if you’rea lady you’ve got a pair of shoes for every different outfit, for every different occasion.if you’re a guy you’ve got a screwdriver for every different screw you’re going toscrew whether that’s a phillips bit, a straight slot, a [inaudible], you know the square bit,you know whatever. and i see juicers like that too. certain juicers are better for certainoccasions or juicing certain items if you’re a guy. that’s why it’s very importantif you’re only getting one juicer to pick the juicer that’s going to meet most ofyour needs, like i know if you’re a lady right, you might be able to have one shoe,your flats, work for a lot of things, but won’t work for some things, but you canuse it most of the time. and if you’re a
guy, i kind of like a straight slot that’sa little bit smaller, sometimes i can get it in a square bit, sometimes i can use itin place of a phillips head, you know and like that. so juicers are like that too, youcan get probably a juicer that’s going to meet your needs, that’s going to do a widevariety of things, but you want to make sure that when you buy a juicer you get a juicerthat’s going to be really good at what you’re going to juice most. so i don’t know ifyou want to juice oranges the most, you’re going to find out in this video which oneof these juicers do oranges the best. in my previous videos i have done comparisons wheni’m juicing leafy greens and other things. and in general what i’m going to tell youis this – in general, horizontal auger style
machines always juice the leafy greens thebest, period. so if you want to juice like john, i want to juice the majority of whati’m juicing is leafy greens. well then you want to get something like the omega nc800which is my favorite horizontal auger juicer at this time. now if you’re one of thosepeople, “john i want to juice some leafy greens but i want to juice a whole bunch ofeverything man, including fruits and hard vegetables and leafy greens,†well thenyou might want to go for the slowstar, because the slowstar probably better at juicing thefruits and some of the hard vegetables and it’s also a little bit more convenient inmy opinion. i mean, every juicer has their pros and cons, that’s why i make these videos,so that you guys can see which one may be
the best for you. so a few of the things iwant to go over about these machines is that they both are slow-running machines. thishappens to be the slowest running juicer that’s available at present time in the us, runsat 47 rpms. generally the lower the rpms, or that’s how fast it spins, revolutionsper minute, the higher the nutrition you’re going to get. the omega nc 800 runs at 80rpms, so that’s not much faster, i wouldn’t think there’s magnitudes of difference innutrition. the main difference is anything around 100 rpms and below are considered slowjuicers, and anything above that, like 3000 on up, you know 1700 on up, those are calledthe high speed juicers. and the high-speed machines run at a much faster pace, in generalthey’re louder and they also tend to oxidize
the food more, or oxidize the juice more,so that you get lower nutrition in the juice that you’re creating. so for that reason,99% of the time i use the slow machines in my household, i mean these are just the latestdesigns, and those are the ones that i choose to use. in addition, both these guys havelong warranties. so the slowstar has a ten year warranty, the omega nc800 has the longestwarranty in the juicing industry, which is 15 years. so that’s simply amazing. thinkif your cell phone had a warranty for 15 years right? you literally would never have to buyanother cell phone again, and that’s how it is when you buy a good juicer. i can’tsay enough about sticking with one of the major brands of juicers, there’s so manydifferent knock-offs these days coming out
of china. both these machines are actuallymade in korea. that you know, in my tests have not performed as well as some of thelegitimate brands and high-end brands, and that’s the ones that we choose to offerat discount juicers. other than that, if you’re a person that doesn’t like to have any settings,then the slowstar is good because there’s nothing to set. you literally put it togetherassemble it, and you’re all ready to juice. on the omega nc 800 there is a little dialhere on the end that i’ll show you guys. and it has a setting from zero to five, andyou’ll need to adjust this according to what you’re juicing. so for example, ifyou’re juicing something like carrots and leafy greens, you’re going to want to putit on five, what this does is puts the most
back pressure on the pulp inside the machineso that you can extract the most amount of juice, and if you’re putting it on fruits,you may want to put to a one, which offers the least amount of back pressure. the problemis if you put too much back pressure then it’s going to clog up the machine, thingsare going to start coming up the feed chute, and it’s not going to be ejected. so thisis one of those things you’re going to have to play with, it’s like when you first learnto ride a bike. you might have fell off the first couple of times, but once you got onyour bike and learned how to ride it, you could do pretty good. so this is the sameway. i think because we’re juicing oranges with some of the pith, we’re going to crankthis down to 2 ⽠or so, to allow some back
pressure, but also to let that pulp flow rightout. another thing that’s important for somepeople is the feed chute size. i want to show you guys the different feed chute sizes hereon both these machines. here’s the feed chute size on the omega nc800, it’s likea nice stadium shape, and then here it’s more of a crescent shape. so the feed chutesize on the slowstar juicer is larger than the omega nc800, although the nc800 is thelargest feed chute on any horizontal single auger to date. another feature that’s importantto me besides just the juicing and extracting the fiber from the produce you’re juicing,is the homogenizing feature, or mixing feature as some people call it. this allows you tomake things like nut butters, frozen banana
sorbets where you can literally take ripebananas, you peel them, you put them in your freezer in a ziploc bag or pyrex glassware,and then you take them out you put them through the machine with a blank plate, and what thisdoes this literally mushes everything up, and then it makes a substitute for ice creamthat’s 100% bananas and 100% delicious. so in this way you can make further dietarychanges to get some of the processed foods, the ice creams with monodiglycerides and cornsyrups and preservatives and all these other ingredients you can’t and i can’t pronounceeither that’s probably not so good. my whole message to you guys is to get more fruitsand vegetables in you, and i’m happy to say that the juicers are probably one of mytop appliances to do just that. in addition,
the homogenizing feature can also be usedto make baby foods or for geriatric patients that are unable to chew very well. i meanwhy do we give babies baby foods? because they don’t have any teeth yet. now becausewe have teeth we want to make sure we chew each and every mouthful about 50 times toturn your food into a mush so that you get optimal digestion. or just run it throughone of these machines with the mincing code on this guy or with the blank plate on thisguy so that you can mush up your food and have it in a softer, more broken down textureso that you can get the optimal digestion out of it. in general, i recommend juicingyour vegetables, but eating your fruits whole, or blending them. today we’re juicing theoranges because many people like orange juice
and i always want to teach you guys good,better, best. you always want to do the best you can, i mean obviously an orange juicemade with fresh oranges is better than a packaged or bottled orange juice, right, which is betterthan a coca-cola, and you want to do the best you can. any way you can get more fruits andvegetables in you i think is a good thing. so now let’s get into the juice-off. becausethese oranges won’t fit into the feed chutes of these machines, what we’re going to haveto do is we’re going to have to cut these up into smaller pieces. now it’s very importantwhen using any slow juicer is to not cram things in the feed chute. my preference isto not use the pusher unless absolutely required. it’s best to let things, let gravity takethe produce, drop it into the machine, let
the machine work at it at its slow and evenpace. you start cramming things in and using the pusher and try to push things in too fastit’s like you trying to stuff your mouth full with another cookie when your mouth isalready full of cookies. and it’s not that i advocate eating cookies, that’s just myexample today. but you can do the same thing with oranges. so anyways, let’s go aheadand turn this machine on and juice in the slowstar machine. we’ll go ahead and cutthis in half and probably cut each half into three pieces and take one piece just dropit into the machine. as you guys can see, we got the orange juice coming out over here,and some of the pulp is starting to flow out the back end. and this is how i like to usemy machines, i like to literally do the cutting,
and as i’m cutting i’ll be also feedingstuff in, and i’ll then grab another one, and then drop another one right in there.and then i’ll go ahead and go back to do more cutting. so in this way i’m lettingthe machine work without having me to use the pusher. alright so we’re down to ourlast orange here, i’ve been probably cutting these actually into fourths to make nice smallpieces so i can just drop them in the feed chute and then they basically just drop downin the feed chute. and as you guys can see we’ve got a nice stream of the orange juicecoming out, and then over on this side we got the pulp coming out. now don’t be alarmedif you have the slowstar machine, and pulp is not flowing out the entire width of theejection port, pulp is probably flowing out
maybe half of it, and as long as pulp is stillmoving out, definitely a good thing, it’s not backed up and not clogged. one of thereasons why i like juicing the oranges with the pith, not only for the nutrition, butbecause all slow juicers require some amount of nice hard fibrous material to help thejuicer work, and to help push all that stuff through the machine. in the slowstar if wejust juice the insides, like if you peeled that by hand, it would still work, but itmight not work as good because the white pithy part is providing a lot of fiber to help ejectall this pulp. and this pulp is definitely really dry. next we’re going to go aheadand give you guys a close-up shot to show you guys this machine working.so as you guys can see the pulp is slowly
coming out of the machine, and this is definitelygood. now i have put in the last orange a little while ago and pulp’s still flowing,so right after you put in the last orange you don’t want to just turn off the machineimmediately, because as long as pulp is still flowing, it’s still actually working. let’sgo ahead and check out the juice spout there, and as you guys can see we still got juicedripping out of the machine, and definitely looks really good. there’s the juice, yesa little bit of foam was created but look at that nice, dark, rich orange juice thatwe made in the slowstar vertical juicer. so the pulp has pretty much stopped flowing outof the machine, we’re going to go ahead and turn that guy off. next we’re goingto go over and work with the omega nc800.
now this feed chute’s a little bit smaller,so we may have to cut up the oranges into a little bit smaller pieces, let’s go aheadand turn this guy on and start cutting these oranges up. we are putting the oranges in,seeing if the machine will self-feed, and on the nc800 you’re seeing that the orangeis kind of sitting in there but not going down so we will need to use the pusher. thisis going to definitely slow me down a little but because now i’ll have to put the orangesin, and then put the pusher in after each segment of orange. so i’m not going to beas efficient as if i was able just to cut and then drop them in there. maybe i’llput a few pieces in at a time. alright so this is working fairly well, we’re extractingour orange juice, looks like the pulp’s
flowing out fairly well on 2 â½, we’re goingto crank it up to 4 to see if it still comes out fairly well or if it starts backing upon us. you know this something you’re going to definitely have to play with, you don’twant it to back up too much, but you don’t want the pulp to come out too easy, becausethen you might be missing a little bit of yield there. let’s see we’re going totake these oranges cut in half and let’s see if i can cram it down in the feed chuteto save me a little bit of time. and we are able to do that, and we’re going to go aheadand continue juicing in the omega nc800. alright getting down to the end we just got abouttwo more oranges to juice in the nc800, here it is last orange, nc800. and it looks likethe collection cup on the nc800 may not hold
as much as on the slowstar there. last orangein the nc800, let me go ahead and do a close-up shot so you guys can see what it looks like.so there’s the pulp coming out of the omega nc800, and there are the little settings onthe top there, the little arrow shows the current setting, and if we look at it fromthe top it’s pretty much at a 4, and it looks like the pulp has been coming out fairlywell, and it looks like we have a great big pitcher of orange juice that’s filled tothe brim literally, and the juicer is pretty much just dripping the last bit of juice out.alright so the final step, let’s go ahead and measure out how much each juicer made.now to be fair, what we’re going to do is actually we’re going to take the strainersand run the juices both in the strainers because
if there’s extra pulp in the juice that’snot going to be a fair fight. before i do that though, let’s go ahead and move theseguys aside, and i want to show you guys the pulp, and i’m going to feel the pulp foryou guys. this is more of an expanded pulp, and this pulp over on this side on the slowstaris more compressed. we’re just going to go ahead and pick up a handful of this stuffin my hand, a nice pulp ball, and a handful of this stuff in my hand, and we’re goingto squeeze. and as we squeeze, as you guys can see i’m not seeing any drops of juicecoming out, i’m seeing big pieces of the pulp coming out, and my hands are barely wet.so i mean these two juicers are two of the best juicers of the slow juicer single augermachines that i’ve ever tested, and i’m
not surprised that the pulp is very dry. nowlet’s check the yields. move these into place here. first we got the slowstar juice,these can be a bit of a pain to pour when they’re a bit full, maybe we’re goingto go ahead and lift this guy up a little bit. alright so we got that guy draining throughthe sieve, by the way the slowstar juicer does include a nice fine stainless steel sievein with it, the omega nc800 does not include a sieve, so if you want to strain juice whichi would recommend because the nc800 does put some pulp in there, you should go down andbuy a standard sieve from your local department store whatnot.alright next let’s go ahead and take the nc800 juice, and i think this is going tobe even too much for me to pour out of a full
container, so i think i’m going to haveto basically pour this into something else before we pour it in through the sieve ori’m going to lose too much juice. so what we’re going to do is we’re going to takethis juice here, and we’re going to pour it into this little pitcher without hopefullylosing any. alright, now that we got all the juice in here we can easily pour it throughthe strainer right here without any spills. okay check it out, this is very interesting.it looks like overall, the nc800 actually made less pulp in the juice, how do i knowthis? because we can see how much juice is left in the strainer, there’s significantlyless juice in the strainer with the nc800. that means the juice actually went throughthe strainer. we’re going to go ahead and
spin this around and see how much pulp isleft over after we shake it down, so that means the nc800 made a more pulp-free juicethan the slowstar when juicing these skinned navel oranges.alright so looks like there’s very little pulp in the nc800. next on the slowstar there’sa fair bit of pulp in there, we’re going to go ahead and shake this guy around a littlebit, and try to get this pulp out. now one of the things i’m noticing right off thebat is the color of the pulp that’s being caught in the strainers. so i don’t knowif you guys can see that on the camera there, but the pulp from the omega nc800 is kindof more like translucent, more like the inside coloring of the orange, like the little segmentsand the little aerials inside there, and the
pulp that’s being caught by the slowstarjuicer is more kind of white, so it’s more like the pithy fibrous stuff that you’reseeing on the outside. and if i look at the pulp now, it looks like the nc800 actuallyjust shot more of the white pithy part out into the pulp catch bin, and not into thejuice where slowstar juicer looked like to me that it was more effective to juice moreof that white pithy part. and this is no surprise really because in my past tests, i have actuallyseen the slowstar is really more effective at grinding up that produce to get all thenutrients in each and every cell of the produce you’re juicing. so it looks like the slowstarjust from my naked eye may be making a little bit higher nutrition juice. that being said,it may not taste as good because the white
pithy part once again is not as sweet as theinnards of the orange. so let’s see, i think we’re pretty much done shaking this down.“you’re getting shaken down man, give me all your money!†alright so let me seeif i can compress all this fiber into one area of the screen. so basically it lookedlike to me after we shook all this stuff down, that the slowstar juicer probably made abouttwice as much, a little bit less than twice as much pulp before straining. now some ofyou guys may like that pulpy orange juice in which case, you actually might like theslowstar, because it puts more pulp in there to begin with. next of course, let’s checkout the final thing, which is the yield test, one of the most important things.now let’s check out the yields, let’s
go ahead and do a close-up shot so you guyscan see these on a level playing field. now as you guys can see, i mean the levels arepretty much the same, so actually i’m going to have to call this a tie. and both thesemachines, with about three and half pounds of skinned oranges produced one liter of juice,that’s 33 ounces approximately. but i want you guys to notice the coloring of the juicesif i could get these guys in the same frame at the same time. once again over on thisside here, we got the slowstar and on this side we got the nc800. look at the difference.i mean, we juiced in the slowstar first, the slowstar’s a more consistent color, darkerjuice, and over on the nc800, i don’t know if you guys can see that on the camera, butit looks like we got some juicer separation.
so for me, the slowstar juice actually looksmore nutritious than the omega nc800. next thing is of course the taste test.so now for the taste test, first i’m going to go ahead and try the nc800 juice, rightinto my little glass there, nice little glass of orange juice for breakfast, better thananything money can buy. mmm. nice pulp-free juice, a tad bit sweet. i love my orange juice,mmmmm. next let’s go ahead and try the juice made with the slowstar juicer. i mean, it’sreally cool how both these juicers made the orange juice, they made about equal amounts,but as you guys saw they totally look different. this one seems a little bit more rich andcreamier than the omega nc800. mmm, wow. i like this orange juice much, much better actually.it’s almost rubbery in your mouth, and it
has a softer feel, it tastes more rich andfull-bodied and i believe that’s personally because of the white pithy part that the slowstarground up and got into the juice, whereas it looks like to me, the nc800 i mean lookat this, like literally sent it out in clumps and just mushed out the juice, much more likea reamer pressed and grinded up, whereas this guy really ground up all the different fiberswell to provide a more nutritious juice in my opinion. mmm, definitely good. now i wantto bring you guys back to the beginning of this episode where i squeezed that valenciaorange out we got that orange water that i talked about. we’ve got that right here,and i want you guys to look at the colors on that. see that colors on that, the colorof the orange water is nice more dark orange
a little bit more translucent, whereas thejuice made with the [inaudible] and all is like a lot more darker and non-translucent,and more rich. and this is the kind of stuff that you guys should definitely be drinking.mmmm. think i’m going to drink the rest of that right now.so i guess in the end i must declare a winner of this juice-off today, and i mean, thisis a really tough juice-off for me, because both machines produced the same amount ofjuice with the same amount of produce, that’s totally amazing. now yes, the slowstar didmake more pulp in the juice, we did have a little more of a challenge to sieve it out,and in the end, i’m going to have to declare the slowstar the winner, mainly due to thefact that it did a better job at extracting
all the nutrition out of the white fibrousrind and literally ground up those pieces into little small pieces a lot better thanthese large chunks in the omega nc800. this just proves to me that the slowstar is a muchbetter juicer in this instance for juicing fruits than the nc800. and this does not surpriseme, in general the vertical auger juicers are better and more efficient at fruits, whilethese guys on this side are better at the leafy greens.so be sure to check my other videos where i compare these juicers side by side if you’restill wondering which juicer you should get. and you know this time i liked the slowstarjuicer, and let me tell you both these machines sit on my countertop in my kitchen, and theseare the machines that are my go-to machines.
so no matter which one you choose, you can’tgo wrong, because these are the top of the top for the single auger style juicers atthis point in time. be sure to subscribe to my videos if you’re not already for futureupdates on juicing, making recipes, and other appliances that can allow you to eat morefresh fruits and vegetables, once again, my name is john kohler with discountjuicers.com,be sure to visit discountjuicers.com/youtube for special promotional offers for our youtubevisitors. [music]