Omega NC800HDS Cold Press Juicer Machine, Vegetable and Fruit Juice Extractor and Nutrition System, Dual-Stage Slow Masticating Juicer, 150 W, Manual, Silver

I've been juicing for over 30 years, and this is my favorite juicer. Note that the NC800 & NC900 are the SAME except for color. I also own the Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, and I feel that the Omega NC800 is much better. I've noticed that most of the rave reviews on the Kuvings are from people who are coming from a centrifugal juicer - well, any slow juicer will be a vast improvement over a centrifugal juicer, so I understand their enthusiasm. Cleaning - hands down, the Omega NC800 is easiest to clean! By far. It takes less than 90 seconds. The Kuvings is not simple to clean (although, again, much easier than any centrifugal juicer!). Kuvings has lots of parts with nooks and crannys, plus a huge screen, all of which require careful cleaning. Pre- Juice Prep - this might surprise you, but although the Kuvings has a huge chute, the juicer itself is not too great at handling fibrous things, so anything tough and fibrous (like celery, kale, wheatgrass) needs to be cut into very small pieces, so the idea of the huge chute is kind of misleading. The Omega on the other hand, has a much smaller chute, but takes abuse much better. You can cram whole pieces of celery, ginger, kale, whatever into the chute and it just chugs along. No, the omega won't fit an uncut apple, but an apple is far easier to chop into pieces quickly than greens and celery, etc. juice quality - The omega handily wins for greens, and "mixed juices" (like a morning juice of 1/2 apple, 1/2 cucumber, handful of greens, few stalks of celery, piece of ginger, turmeric, half a lemon, couple of baby carrots, handful of herbs). Very little pulp in the omega, and a very hassle-free prep and cleanup. Kuvings has lots of pulp, so be prepared to strain. I don't do much fruit juice (other than a bit of apple or citrus in a vegetable based juice). The kuvings would probably be better for just fruit juices like just pineapple or oranges (but really, you should be mixing more vegetables into your juices). Nut Butters - Kuvings DOES NOT DO NUT BUTTERS! Very annoyed by this, as that was one of the reasons I bought it. But when I got home, I looked at instructions and it says nothing about nut butters. I called Kuvings, and they confirmed, the machine is not designed to do nut butters. Ugh! The Omega does awesome nut butters, they're better when the nuts are lightly roasted (raw almonds for instance take about the same amount of time as in the Cuisinart). Raw brazil nut butter comes out really well In the Omega. Nut Milks, Coconut Milk & Butter - This is where the Kuvings excels. You have not tasted homemade coconut or almond milk until you've made it in a Kuving. OMG something about crushing the nuts/coconut makes the milk taste infinitely better than if you use the vitamix. And, the Kuvings makes it easy, since no need for nut milk bag, it sends the pulp out the ejector (save the pulp and use it for yummy treats!). And coconut butter from the Kuvings was an accidental surprise - I no longer purchase this very expensive product from the store. Sadly, the Omega doesn't do milks. So, my take away is that the Omega NC800 is just an amazing all around juicer. The key to juicing is actually taking the time to do it everyday - this machine makes that much easier to do. PS - I highly recommend watching John Kohler of discount juicers on YouTube before buying a juicer. His videos are very informative and kind of amusing in a Sean Penn from Fast Times at Ridgemont High sort of way (although most are way too long, but you can fast forward).

I spent a lot of time looking at the options before I bought this. I read hundreds of reviews of different juicers, and watched about 8 hours of videos comparing them in operation. Ultimately it came down to the NC800 or a vertical from another brand that also included a "homogenizing blank." I chose this one because it appeared easier to clean, and is better at roots like ginger and turmeric. I'm really really happy with this thing. It does an awesome job on ginger, turmeric, beets, celery, etc. People who say it isn't good at celery aren't following the typical instructions on cutting it up; you slice celery just the same as if you were going to stir-fry it, and this juices it right up with no problems at all. It also does way better at carrots than many reviews suggest; carrots are the most common thing I'm juicing, I'm doing that every day and it is working really well. I rarely have to push them at all, they just feed right down. I do slice them lengthwise first, not because the machine has trouble with them but because I'm trying to be gentle and kind to the machine. If you like to take good care of your appliances, and not try to shove the max amount through, you won't notice any problems with the foods that people say this isn't as good at. Except fresh fruit, it can't do fresh fruit other than very-crisp apples. However, it makes great sorbet from frozen fruit! Fruit I make into smoothies in a blender, so I didn't buy this wanting it to do fresh fruit. There really isn't a juicer that can "do it all," but this does everything-but-fruit really well. Broccoli works really well, including the stalks which I buy cheap at a store that sells their trimmings. Any juicer can juice a carrot, but carrots for juicing are really cheap. This thing does an amazing job at fresh veggies; kale is expensive, as are beets! The price of this machine will be made up over time by getting more juice out of the expensive ingredients; kale, ginger, turmeric, wheat grass, beets, etc. A glass of carrot juice costs me a few cents. I used to pay $3 or more to buy the juice. Same for wheat grass. And a ginger-turmeric tonic, I'd have to buy and drink 5 or 10 of them to get as much medicine, the ones they sell are just beverages, not tonic-strength. Now I can make it as strong as I want. And cleanup is as easy as it looked. I clean everything after each use, including using the brush on the metal screen, and it only takes me about 2 minutes normally, 3 after turmeric. :)

I purchased this juicer on May 30, 2016 and it arrived on June 6, 2016. I have juiced before with the Jack LaLane juicer. Very nice juicer but the downside was the cleaning. Took too long to clean and was a hassle, so because of that I stopped juicing and gave it away. When I first bought the Omega NC800, I was a little dubious about getting back into the juicing cycle again. Well, my doubts put to rest. This juicer is FANTASTIC. I've been using it for about a month now and it does an amazing job. It is relatively quiet, easy to use and the best part is that it cleans up quickly. About every 2-3 days I will juice a couple of containers, mostly kale (yuck) with strawberries, blueberries, lemon, pomegranate, apples or oranges (to hide the taste of the kale or chard). The pulp that extracts is pretty much dry, which means I'm getting most of the juice. This juicer has the wider tube, so you don't have to cut up your ingredients as small (good choice on the larger chute). FYI.....adding lemon to your ingredients extends the shelf life. It disassembles very easily for cleaning and is easy to put back together. $350 at first seemed very high, but after using it, the price is well worth it and comes with a 15 year warranty....WOW!!!! I haven't tried making peanut butter, salsa or sorbet yet, but have no doubts that this juicer will do nicely. I would recommend this juicer highly!!!!!

I've had the NC800 for five months now. I use it once a week to make carrot with beet juice and celery juice for the week. I have a Champion juicer and a Greenstar (Tribest) juicer, but the Champion clogs up on celery and the Greenstar requires cutting the carrots lengthwise and is way too hard to push carrots through, so I'd have two juicers to use and clean which is very inconvenient. I also wanted a juicer for occasional leafy greens, since my old Wheateena grass/leafy greens juicer finally died. The NC800 is excellent with only a couple acceptable weaknesses. It is inexpensive considering it can do all my juicing and even make nut butters very well like the Champion. This is the first juicer I've used that does a very good job of juicing leafy greens, so a dedicated expensive greens juicer is no longer required. It definitely sets a new standard for juicers. The juice is still cool with very high quality full flavor. It lasts a week in the frig, which says a lot about the quality of the juice extraction. There is only 1 or 2 tablespoons of foam on the top of a quart, which is very good. It's quiet with little vibration. Easy cleanup is very important. The Greenstar was a real pain to scrub and clean all the parts. The Champion was pretty easy. The NC800 is a little easier than the Champion. I'm lazy so I often let it sit for hours after juicing or between juicing different vegetables, usually 5 lbs of carrots, a beet, and 4 stalks of celery and it's still easy to clean. I use an Oxo bottle brush which reaches all the way into the juicer body and cleans it right out. Even the screen cleans easily without any scraping or scrubbing with a hard toothbrush. I almost exclusively juice one quart of carrots, one beet, and a separate two quarts of celery juice: Celery juices easily with dry fiber out and absolutely no clogging/backup, like you get with the Champion. Carrots are clunky to push through (it seems to break them into chunks first and then grinds them) and you only get 4 cups from 5 lbs of carrots instead of the usual 5 cups, which is the worst I've seen in a juicer but not that important to me. It takes all but monster size carrots. I can't remember having to cut a carrot lengthwise first but I think I have once or twice. Beet is a little clunky, like carrots, with the same inefficiency but the juice is very good, like every other juice. I have juiced some other fruits and vegetables just to get an idea of the overall capability of the NC800: Spinach juices very well with 1/5 foam at most, which is far better than other juicers like the Greenstar which claim to be able to juice leafy greens. There is a trick to juicing leafy greens. Don't bunch them up or try to push them through. Trickle them slowly through on their own. Mustard greens juice efficiently and better than spinach. Use the same method as spinach. Just cut them in half if necessary before dropping them through the juicer. Even a high quality $1000 grass/leafy greens juicer will only do a little better, and is completely unnecessary. Cucumber does backup but clears quickly when you use the reverse button. You do need to cut cucumbers in half lengthwise and there is a lot of pulp in the juice, which you may want to filter out. This is one of the few items where you do need to switch from the 5 setting to the 1 setting to get it to juice decently. It's good enough, but if you drink a lot of pure cucumber juice, this might not be the best juicer. Oranges juice like the Champion giving you an Orange Julius type juice, creamy and milky, which some people, like me, prefer. Grapes give hard fiber out but backup after only 2 cups, so it isn't usable unless you are only using a combination of some grapes with mostly other juices. The 1 setting, like cucumbers, definitely helps in the case of grapes. Apples backup after only 3 apples. You will have to cut medium size apples into quarters. You will get too much foam, too. This is definitely not a juicer for apple based juices, but you might get away with juicing 1 or 2. Pistachios make fine nut butter. I used raw pistachios and the nut butter was dry but that just depends on the nut. You can always just add a little oil. There is a trick to making nut butters. Like leafy greens, you need to just trickle the nuts in slowly with no filling up and pushing which will just clog it and make it very hard to push through. This is different, but just as good as the Champion for nut butters. The plastic pitcher doesn't pour very well and the plastic fiber out container is a pain to clean. I use my Greenstar glass pitcher and a glass bowl for the fiber which is easy to empty and clean. As others have mentioned, this NC800 HDS 5th generation is the same as the NC900 HDC 6th generation with the same big feed chute, except for the color, silver/gray vs chrome. I think the NC800 also comes in red. I'm very happy with my NC800, and it's a little cheaper. 25 Nov 2017 update: I get a cup of juice per pound on small carrots. If you use small carrots or slice them lengthwise as others have suggested and use very little pressure to mostly let them pull through on their own you'll get as much juice as almost any other juicer. You decide whether you want to juice faster or slower by slicing and patiently waiting in order to get more juice per carrot. 23 Dec 2018 update: I just got 3 oz of wheatgrass juice with a little less than a tablespoon of foam from 4 oz of wheatgrass, so it really does juice wheatgrass, too.

I've had many juicers and the problem with every single one of them is that you have to prepare the fruits and vegetables before you can get any juice! After all that seems to be my complaint along with a few of my friends. Same is true for this one but the chute is bigger than the previous model which certainly helps. It is relatively simple to clean. The juice still has some pulp so I always pour it through a strainer first. The size is good. If you are going to use it, then you undoubtedly will want it on the counter. This juicer fits under the cabinets which is sometimes not the case. The Breville juicer that I had was great in that you could practically shove an entire apple into it, but the storage was not as convenient, the juice quality may be compromised, and the cleaning was harder. I also has the Huron juicer and although the juice quality was good, the chute was smaller and the darn thing kept clogging. Of course I have had a couple of Juicemans and they are ok to get acquainted with juicing but that's about it. I had an Omega centrifugal type and that gave good juice but was a drag to clean. Let's see, I also had a Champion and I have to say I really liked that juicer. It was simple to clean, maybe the easiest one I ever had for cleaning. The chute is not very big so there is a fair amount of prep time, but no more than most. Also the nice thing about the Champion is that it can be a stepping stone if you want to buy a manual press down the road to get some really good pulp free juice. OK, but this is about the Omega and I wouldn't keep it if I didn't think it was the best choice for me.

After 2 weeks of research and comparison, I settled on this juicer. It is VERY easy to clean (clean the juice screen before anything dries), juices everything I put in it handily (don't worry about squeaks-that's from spinach rubbing and nothing to worry about), easy to assemble and take apart and leaves pretty dry fiber as the remnant. I have not had to use reverse once and it never came close to bogging down. I occasionally did have to put some pressure on the "shover" to get things down and sometimes the last few crushed pieces don't go all the way thru but that's usually fruit and just a small amount. It does produce pulp in the juice but I like that. You want clean juice, buy a centrifugal juicer and waste more of the not-inexpensive produce & fruit or just strain it. As suggested, I cut everything up beforehand and tossed it into large bowls as I did so and then just fed the various hard/soft/fruit in as a mix and it ate it right up, green leaves being no problem at all. I cleaned it out after every individual juice and it does take some serious time, about 2 hours, to produce 4-24oz mason jars of juice this way but I'm ok with that given the results. You could do it faster without the cleaning and I doubt the flavor would be affected with a different juice but I have the time to clean it that way. Recipe books abound for juicing and I've found you can easily double an ingredient, add other things like garlic cloves, spices or ginger to just about any recipe and not ruin it. I won't use the pasta nozzle additions or make nut butters so you're on your own with those. At $340 it was mid-level for prices for horizontal juicers but with a rock-solid warranty and company behind it. I see no need to pay $500-$800 for the twin grinder models that I was also considering. They can't produce it faster or get much more juice out of it than the NC800HDS does. You won't be disappointed. Update: Still love it. Experience shows juicing gets faster, 3 hours now produces enough jars of juice for a week since I don't worry about the 3 days mentioned as the vitality span of the juice and I can't tell the difference. First, let the auger pull the stuff down and don't shove on it unless it stops dropping. I'd guess that's where some people break the auger and/or overload the motor. You don't need to do that much. Second, cut the pieces smaller than you need to just to get them in the chute. It only takes a couple of more knife slices and the auger can then more easily pull them in to crush. Third, I make 3-5 jars of the same juice I like at once so I run them all through without cleaning out the machine. I found that I didn't need to and it still worked great but clean between juice types or fruit vs vegetables. Also a 1/4 or so of water at the end of a juice type run tossed into the chute helps move out remaining stuff and doesn't affect the juice. Fourth, clean screens thoroughly when doing so. A little extra brush scrub makes sure you're getting ALL the juice you can. I also set the nozzle to 5, no matter what I'm juicing. Fifth, the recipes I've been using from a book actually fill a 24 oz mason jar almost exactly to the top. I expect most of them will. Last, experiment with your ingredients and don't think you must follow a recipe to the letter. Once you found those you like, toss out or add what you want and see how it tastes. I've found 2 that I've improved for my taste. Veggies and fruits are NOT cheap these days and it costs me close to what my meat & potatoes budget did to juice, if not a bit more. Still, I've lost 2 lbs a week for the past 6 weeks, while exercising of course, and have never felt hungry or deprived while having a juice in the morning, one in the afternoon and then a reasonable actual meal at dinnertime, fish or turkey and salad usually. I'm delighted I bought this and have actually used it. I hope you will be too.

I'm writing my 3rd juice book (this is the first one) The Healthy Juicer's Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long So it was time: We finally upgraded from my old Omega J8006 Nutrition Center Quiet Dual-Stage Slow Speed Masticating Juicer Creates Continuous Fresh Healthy Fruit and Vegetable Juice at 80 Revolutions per Minute High Juice Yield, 150-Watt, Metallic but not without going through 2 other juicers which bombed: The super expensive and HORRIBLE juicer, the Tribest GSE-5000 Greenstar Elite Cold Press Complete Masticating Juicer, Juice Extractor with Jumbo Twin Gears, White , which at $500, leaves you very disappointed, and then the Breville BJE200XL Compact Juice Fountain 700-Watt Juice Extractor , which wastes SO MUCH juice, your fruits and vegetable pulp are dripping with juice when you go to throw them to compost. Both juicers failed so I stuck with my original Omega J8006 for 9 years, and the faithful machine broke twice and Omega fixed it both times. Even though it's still going, I wanted a new juicer and so it was natural to upgrade to the next Omega juicer. We did lots of research too; we weren't attached to getting another Omega but research led us back to Omega. It is truly a high-performance machine. What I love about it: 1. It is priced so reasonable for a masticating juicer. 2. It makes DELICIOUS high-quality juice. 3. The pulp is DRY. There is no juice left! 4. The chute is a little bigger than the J8006 model so it saves a little time. 5. It is soooo quiet. 6. This juice is so good I keep it in the fridge for up to a week. What I'm not crazy about: 1. I do wish the chute was larger. It'd save me time cutting all my veggies and fruits into small pieces. 2. I'm not crazy about the pusher. I had to use the previous omega pusher as it's smaller and can really get in there. 3. It WOBBLES. I read another reviewer had the same experience and even the replacement machine did the same so at least I know it's not defective but the previous model did not wobble. It's all the plastic parts. Stainless steel would have been better but at this price, I'll stay with it. 4. The discharge is so close to the containers that it can get a little messy so you have to manage the juice and pulp, and empty the juice BEFORE the container gets super full so you don't lose any juice. I get disheartened when I try to pour a full container into my glass jars and some juice spills out. This wouldn't happen if you empty out your juice container at 3/4 full. Just a tip that saves every bit of juice. Still, Omega has done right by us and I trust this brand and I'm happy enough to give this a generous 5-stars. Let's see how long it lasts. First two months have been good. Much more juicing on the way though!

We researched for a while before getting a juicer. We've had Champion juicers, which were beasts--but produced juice that was half foam. We've had a Greenstar--which are wonderful, but have 20 pieces and take a ridiculous amount of time to juice anything. This juicer looked like a happy medium for a decent price. The results were a juicer that can chew up pretty much anything you can fit down (within reason), that makes a large amount of juice with very little foam (very little oxidation), that has 4 parts to the assembly that can be cleaned by dipping them in a bowl of water (and scrubbing the extruder a little bit with the brush they give you). The blades are really hard plastic, but the extruder has a metal plate that squeezes the vast majority of the juice out of the vegetables. It takes about a minute to assemble and break down, and maybe 2-3 minutes to clean. It is unbelievable how easy it is. The juicer body doesn't get dirty at all, so there's no chance of juice or pulp getting into the body of the juicer and causing mold. If you are juicing vegetables, there is nearly no pulp in the resulting juice. There's a bit more if you juice soft bodied fruit, but we didn't find this to be too significant. We haven't had to strain any of the juice yet, so it's drinkable right out of the machine. All in all, this juicer has been the best we've ever owned. Easy 5's across the board, and hopefully, you can see why.

Bastante recomendable, es increíble la calidad del sabor que se percibe al hacer jugos con esta maravillosa maquina, muy fácil de ensamblar, y de lavar, su tamaño es un poco grande y poco pesado pero bien vale la pena hacer el espacio en la cocina por esta maquina

This is a wonderful product. I got it last night and I took it for a spin already :) Before you commit to a particular juicer, I highly recommend that you go searching, especially on youtube, in order to get some information on the types of juicers and what they specialize in, in order to avoid dropping a few hundred dollars on something you will hate. If you search "juicer reviews", you will find lots of resources. John Kohler on youtube is an amazing resource. I am by no means an expert but I learned a lot by reading and watching online videos on the subject. Before I write any more, please be aware that this TYPE of juicer excels at juicing leafy greens. That is not to say that it cannot juice other things, but this is what it is specialized for. If leafy greens are something you juice often, you will love this juicer. I juiced a whole pound of leafy greens with it already and the results were impressive. The juicer created very little foam. This is in contrast to my Omega VRT 400HD, which tends to create more foamy juices. As a side note, the VRT 400 seems to be better at fruits, but not as great at leafy vegetables. The nice thing about the NC800, is that you can do more with it than just juice. I threw in some cashews and as the internet instructions said, I ran them through a few times. By the 4th run, I had homemade Cashew Butter.The cleanup job was not the funnest but the taste of cashew butter was worth it. As with all masticating juicers, the amount of noise is very low. I don't have a decibel measuring device but I can tell you that I live in a building and I ran it after midnight with no concerns about disturbing neighbors. It's so quiet that you can have a conversation with somebody right beside you while juicing. As with most masticating juicers, some prepwork is required before you can feed veggies into the machine. This amount of time varies with what you are juicing of course, but you will have to cut produce in order for it to fit through the chute. The juicer is quite big, especially with the attachment installed (if you look at the picture, the tube can be taken off the main unit), which may be an issue for people who do not have a lot of countertop space. The juicer can also mince vegetables and create baby food, as well as create your own almond milk, coconut milk and so on. It comes with different end caps which can be used to make homemade noodles/pasta, baby food etc. I saw a video of somebody making homemade salsa as well. So how's the cleanup? well, if you own a VRT400 (or 330 or 350) you can expect the same amount of time (or maybe just a touch less). It does come with a cleaning brush, which looks like a toothbrush but I think I will get a bigger brush. That's just personal preference. The one gripe I have with the juicer is that it comes with really poor supporting documentation. It comes with assembly instructions which are easy to follow, but not one recipe. I have no idea how to make my own noodles and I will have to look this up. For a juicer which cost almost $400, I would have expected at least a few basic recipes for each interchangeable end cap. That is a minor gripe, and in no way does it make this juicer lose any stars. Good: - Quiet - Versatile (can make many things besides just juice) - 15 Year warranty - Low foam juice (Yes!!!) Bad: - Poor supporting documentation All in all, a fantastic machine.

Llevamos casi un año con este product, preparando 4 jugos diarios, funciona muy bien para extraer los jugos y la calidad es muy diferentes a los extractores con aspas o de centrifugado. Hemos probado el modo de procesador de alimentos y tambien funciona muy bien. Muy recomendado.

I've purchased 3 different models of juicers in the last year specifically for juicing celery (lots of celery) and this one I find to be, for the price, a very good choice. Stepping back, I bought this model for my daughter and she loved it from the get go. It's easy and fast to put together, juices very well and the clean up is quick and easy. When I decided to get one for myself I went higher end and purchased a Hurom which is a different style juicer with a basket, for celery because of the strings, you have to cut each stick into 1 - 1.5 inch pieces making prep a lot more work. Also if you are juicing for more than one person, you have to clean and start over after each 16 oz glass. That one was returned, it was just too much work although I loved the look. Next I tried the Omega J8008C, it was nice looking the chrome is beautiful but there was a problem fitting on the hopper so I returned it. I have to say it didn't handle celery as well as the NC800 or 900 go figure because they have similar parts except the cone shaped piece that the juice passes through is much better on the NC800, just made slightly different. If you want to juice celery you can't go wrong with the NC800. Only negative is it does leave some pulp in your glass (but other juicers will too), it certainly isn't a show stopper and I just began straining with a fine mesh strainer into my glass and you've got superb celery juice. I can't comment on juicing other things as I have not done that as of yet but I doubt I would be disappointed. It's a workhorse with a great warranty. Kudos to Amazon for handling my returns so well when I wasn't satisfied. This will keep me shopping their site for Amazon supplied items.

El extractor es una maravilla, solo fue cuestión de armarlo, pero es facilisimo de usar, lavar, guardar. Los jugos salen a la perfección. Lo recomiendo mucho...además de que el pedido me llego antes de tiempo.