Works great as a juicer, much better than the centrifugal types.
596811
So far I have only juiced with it. Results: just right. It does the job. Much better results than a centrifugal juicer. The pulp is very dry with maximum juice extracted. Easy to use, just some assembly required. Get to know the parts and pieces before assembling...and read the instruction manual before getting started. This model has a narrow chute, so be sure to cut the vegetables or fruit in small pieces.

Ordered through Amazon. No problems. Delivered on-time. The item is a large item, so they placed it in an even larger box, so it is bulky. Other than that, no worries.
1207355
I had a Kuvings which forced you to cut apples and oranges into 8-10 pieces then force each piece through with the plunger.
Pro : This is Tons faster and takes larger slices and thanks to gravity you rarely have to push fruit through.  This orange juice is 20 times better than the Breville juice fountain's aerated version.
Con: However I could not get it to do kale or spinach even after reading other reviewer's tips.
As some reviewers have said there is no one perfect juicer , this is great if you just want orange apple carrot, etc...  I'd much rather have a masticating for the juice quality, but this just wasn't worth the price.
162090
I've used up two centrifugal juicers in about 4 years. I decided to lay down the money and go with a great machine. Wow, I didn't expect it to provide such excellent results. It's very quiet; much more so than the Champion style or centrifugal style by leaps and bounds. You can talk while using it. I was afraid it would be slow. It's much faster than I was expecting with the auger style process. There is basically no foam in my juice which is magical. My centrifugal had almost as much foam as juice and foam is not good for health reasons and just loss. I mainly juice carrots with a 1/2 pear or 1/2 apple. Very nice. I tried beets, celery and even kale. No problem at all, except for digesting the beet juice. I did have to slice the beet. After reviewing all the videos I was worried that I'd have so much prep time. Not the case. I use whole carrots with an occasional trim at the top for the 1 1/2 inch opening. My centrifugals had a larger opening, but was odd shaped so large round carrots or other objects still would not fit. I saw videos of people tossing whole apples into their gee whiz centrifugal juicer. Who would want to do that. Toxic seeds and parts I don't want in my body. True, I've only used it for a month, but the quality of every piece seems superb. I would have no reason to doubt it will last 15 years. I have an engineering background so I look for how things are built, forgive me. I feel cleaning is easier than my centrifugals. I had to clean the pulp out of them a couple of times per juicing and that was tough. Also, this device is much easier to thoroughly clean. I decided against the Champion when I saw juice ooze out the side of the screen and items pop out the top. That just can't happen with this unit. Since I use it so often it has replaced the food processor on the counter top. It looks sharp in the kitchen and the handle makes it easy to pick up and move. I use a mixing bowl with suds to drop the items into for a final clean and disinfection after a rinsing and prior to a drip dry. We used the blank plate for frozen dessert, but ate too much to digest it well. We're learning about various juices and desserts as we can do so much more with this unit. The pure kale juice was an interesting exploration.

This juicer has more than exceeded my expectation.
3567777
After reading many reviews, I decided on this juicer.  I'm glad I did.  It's powerful and juices things quickly and efficiently.  I didn't find it as loud as other reviewers said it was.  It's a juicer, it's going to make noise.  I put a bag in the pulp dispenser so that part of the cleaning was a cinch.  I filled a wash bucket with warm soapy water and put each of the washable pieces in to soak briefly.  The parts come apart easily.  I don't drink the juice until the clean up is done.  I hate doing dishes, but the clean up wasn't as bad as many other reviewers said.  Prepare a bucket of soapy water, put a bag in the dispenser, wash pieces immediately, and then enjoy your yummy, healthy juice.
1791253
I only kept this juicer for about a year and then due to unrelated circumstances it was easier to re-sell it than to drag it along in a move... but I really enjoyed using it.  I love that it doesn't heat up the food as it juices it, which also keeps more of the nutrients intact.  I didn't find it too difficult to clean, as you just have to take it apart, similar to a blender, just maybe with a few extra parts.  My biggest complaint would probably be the size of the shoot, so I really had to cut things up before juicing them.  Otherwise, pretty great!  Also awesome for making "banana ice cream" by freezing a fresh banana then sending it through the juicer.
1154494
Wonderful juicer!  Much more efficient and WAY faster than the electric motor types.
2355547
This juicer is fantastic!  The juice has no foam, unlike a centrifugal which chops and throws your food around.  I do have to cut the fruits and vegetable into bite size pieces.  This does make more sense because you wouldn't put a half of an apple in your mouth.  The auger is a heavy plastic that seems durable.  The straining basket has small gauge holes which does allow some, but not a lot, of pulp through like in store bought orange juice.  The juice is perfect, and so much better than any juice I have had.  Because it has less air in it it's suppose to stay fresh longer.  But, who can wait to drink it?  Not me :)  The holding basket has rubber tabs that scrape the outside of the strainer.  The extruded pulp is dry for most items like carrots, apples, tangerines, kale, grapefruit, blackberries, spinach, lemon.  I did juice nopal (cactus) and that was runny, but that's not the juicers fault. There is a rubber piece on the bottom to make the pulp dryer and that can be popped out to clean.  The juice spout has a stopper so you don't get juice on the counter.  All of the pieces have to be properly aligned and set in properly or it won't start.  The reverse feature is nice.  Cleaning is super easy.  I love this juicer.  You should buy one.
4252804
This is a solid recommendation even if not a five-star review. I have a Waring juicer but it's a pain to clean and I wanted to juice more. The Waring slows down quickly when you press carrots through; the Champion has a much stronger motor and retains its speed. With the augur and feeder removed and stored, the sturdy base doesn't take any mor counter space to store. Cleanup is much easier. I'd say the output is a little higher (drier pulp) and the Waring leaves pieces that slip through in the pulp so there's a little more waste there. The imperfections of the Champion are that the juice slot is wide so you need a big cup to catch the juice (included but it doesn't pour great, with the foam it can tend to drip a lot). Also I got it in white but my sense is that it will discolor from beet and carrot juice pretty quickly so I might get brown if I had it to do over. But I still like this machine a lot and feel it was worth the added expense over the Waring.
1255032
I was little skeptical initially should I buy the costlier juicer or this one, but then decided to try this one. We are not a daily juicer user family. But to our surprise this juicer is doing its job beyond expectations comparing previous juicer experiences. Its very fast, gives almost more than 97% juice out of fruits. cleaning is simple too.
916915
I mean it does the job, and it does it well.  Cleaning is easy, wish it wouldnt be so heavy (but all juicers are).  I prefer masticating as the results are better than a centrifugal.  The downside is that I fear that the plastic parts will break or crack on me so I am careful.  Overall its a real good product.
1493335
I am a relative "newbie" when it comes to juicing, but before investing in a juicer, I did my homework. I learned that among the various kinds/methods of juicing, that a masticating juicer does the best job of juicing the fruit without oxidizing the juice or heating it beyond "raw" - therefore preserving the enzymes, which are critical to health and the destruction of cancer cells.

Fortunately, I was loaned a Green Star juicer which is an amazing and very expensive piece of machinery. I believe the original price tag on it was about $1000.

PROS:
This is truly the quietest appliance in my kitchen. You could easily use this while someone was napping.
It processes the foods more quickly than the Green Star. My husband and I both noted that the foods moved through the shoot rapidly.
We didn't have to do much "pushing". With the Green Star and some others I've witnessed in action, you have to fight the machine to force feed it the fruits and veggies if you want to win the juice prize. This one gobbles them up like a child with ice cream.
It took only a couple of minutes to take this apart and clean the pieces. AND there were less pieces to clean. Compared to some other models which take a considerable amount of time to tear apart and scrub (15 - 30 minutes) this was a cinch.
No pieces of the previous vegetable came out with the following one. It seems to clear the chamber completely after grinding.
It includes the catch basins for juice and pulp and they are a reasonable size. Not true with other models.
The price is excellent for the quality of this model.

CONS:
It doesn't do dishes or memorize recipes.
We have no idea at this point what kind of life expectancy this has.

Based on my limited experience with other juicers this one runs like a dream. Definitely recommended.
233943
This is the first juicer I have ever owned. It does a great job, except on leafy greens. But I guess that is normal for this type of juicer. I did have good luck with using Romaine lettuce, just push the whole thing through and it worked well for that. Others like kale, spinach, etc just didn't work for me. For everything else, it worked really well. Cleans up fairly easily, took about 5 minutes to take apart, clean out the pulp, and hand wash all the parts and dry them off. Pretty quiet, too. Lots quieter than what some of the reviews I read around the web said it would be.
4153283
Love it. Everyone should know the differnce between a masticating juicer and a centrifugal juicer like this one. This will do great with fruits and veggies like beats,celery and ginger and such. However it will underwhelm with items such a spinach and mustered greens. You will need a masticating juicer for those items.
299351
I am a farmer (Eden's FARMacy) that grows and sells wheatgrass.  I have seen many electric juicers in my customer's stores.  This juicer does a great job.  This is an easy to use juicer.  Even being hand cranked it does not take a lot of effort.  I had shoulder surgery last year and turning this handle did not strain me at all.  The only surprise was the juice came out the back instead of the front so I missed a lot of juice on my first time using it.  I was pleasantly surprised that the suction part will actually hold the juicer in place.  In the next few weeks I plan on using the juicer in the field at markets giving people samples of wheatgrass juice.  So I hope it will perform as good in the field on a strange table as it does at home.
1181645
I make a healthy concoction for breakfast, and was using a standard orange juicer - the kind that you press and twist. I am getting arthritis in my hands, so I was looking for an alternative, but I wasn't ready to commit to an expensive press. This gadget works well and quickly. It doesn't allow seeds to come through, so I squeeze, dump the spent lemon half, and keep going - I don't dread making my juice anymore! It isn't exactly easy on my hands, though. I squeeze the handles to extract the juice, so hand strength is required. When I tried to squeeze the spent lemon half, no juice came out, so it does a great job!
1800126
This juicer is of very heavy construction - strong, which is a good thing considering the uses. I sliced some apples in it and it did a good job but not any better than my handheld apple slicer. I'd say if you need to slice A LOT of apples, then this is the way to go, but I doubt it's practical for an apple every once in a while.

Now, the Artaste is a thousand times better for juicing than my 70's era juicer where you hold the orange half over the grinder part as it rotates. I've always hated doing that because you have to squeeze in and my hands get tired. I pushed a full bag of oranges through the Artaste in less than 15 minutes. I also put it on the floor to makes things easier for pumping down on the handle.

Overall, I think it's a great product if you have access to a lot of citrus, as I do.
759309
I use it a lot and it seems to work very well.  It is best with leafy things, then hard things like carrots and beet roots, and can struggle a bit with soft fruits and vegetables.  No juicer does everything perfectly, but I've been using it almost every day for 2 months and overall am very happy with it.  There are a lot of parts to wash so that must be accounted for in how much time it will take to do the juicing.