Mueller Austria Ultra Juicer Machine Extractor with Slow Cold Press Masticating Squeezer Mechanism Technology, 3 inch Chute accepts Whole Fruits and Vegetables, Easy Clean, Large

Background- I’m not a juicer lifestyle junky but I’m not a beginner. I‘ve been juicing for 10 years, up to 2 times a day at one point and eating up to 50% raw. I’ve owned cheap and expensive juicers, (Solo Star horizontal and more than one Omega upright, don’t buy a centrifugal juicer- just, no). I’ve researched juicers quite a bit. I don’t know everything and I’ve only used the juicers for juicing vegetable juice to drink and none of the other options or features they sometimes come with, but I’m more experienced than most the people buying juicers at this price point (judging by the reviews).That said - this is a GREAT juicer. My husband was making fun of me for spending $90 on a juicer when we’ve spent close to $500 in the past... these reviews though! I had to see for myself. The way it seems , 10 (even 5) years ago manufacturing was more expensive and now it’s less and so the juicers are less costly.This is an upright Omega VERT dupe- if you want the upright Omega and don’t want to pay, don’t have the funds or are not sure if juicing is something you are going to like, buy this instead. Of course you don’t get a 10 year warranty but where the hell is my warranty? I’m searching my email and after 10 years, that warranty is hard to locate. If you can keep track, buy the Omega, the machine is probably better, you’re putting less stress on the environment by buying for the long term and it’s not that much more when you think of how much longer it’s supposed to last.The only differences I see between the Omega VERT upright and this machine are better assembly assistance with more red dots that tell you where to line the parts up and a plastic insert to help strain the pulp (it works ok, makes secondary straining with a mesh screen go a little faster). Also, a great juice spout plug on a hinge so that you can stop the juice from pouring out when you’re finished or pausing and need to move the collection pitcher- I love this because the spouts usually drip long after you’ve shut the machines off. I do not know if newer Omega models have these features.An insignificant difference, imo, is that this machine has a larger chute (so you can wear it out faster with uncut food). I recommend not taking advantage of the chute size.About the noise- if you put large or whole pieces in you’re gonna wear out the machine and it’s going to get louder as it struggles. If you want to do that, spend more money and get a better warranty so you can wear the sucker out.Tips-1. cut your hard veggies into 1 inch cubes, chop your greens about the same size then mix everything together and put the mixture in by the handful. Your juicer won’t get clogged, you don’t need the plunger, it’s much easier on the machine, in 6 minutes you’ll have about 16 ounces of juice, and cleaning will be sooo much easier.2. The pulp that gets in is good for you and chewing while you swallow helps digest the juice better. BUT if you can’t stand it, buy some steel strainers to strain the juice when you pour into your cup. I’ve had to do this will ALL my juicers. Kids especially prefer strained juice.3. Squeeze in citrus with a hand juicer or reamer instead of juicing it- it’s hard to clean out of the screen and the acid is bad for the plastic.4. Wash the juicer immediately. Do not wait. Beets stain the plastic. Do not soak the screen, do not leave it with food on it.5. Don’t use the scrub brush on anything but the screen. Use a sponge on everything else or it will get scratched. And NO, you cannot put the parts in the dishwasher. It says so on the instructions.6. YouTube John Kolher, he knows everything about juicing and he’s great.7. Juice your veggies, eat your fruits. Use the fruit sparingly to get used to the taste of the veggie juice.

It is day 7 of me owning this juicer. And I’ve used it twice only needing to because it is a slow masticating and the juice last 72ish hours. Look I read tons of reviews TONs -‘s this juicer was the one I liked the most based on the reviews and other machines I’d looked into. I’m also not into spending every single day prepping and cleaning this. It probably takes about 30-45minutes to do all of that and most of it is prepping before and cleaning afterwards. The slow masticating juicer allows the juice to last up to 72hrs and I need that bc like stated above I’m NOT going to have that time every day.Let’s talk about the juicer shall we. Packaged well when it arrived. I took all of the pieces out, took pictures of the pieces to have for reference (I do this now because for me it’s easier to look at them than the booklets), washed everything and put it back together once dried. I read the instructions and made sure to align the red dots on the side but be aware that the dot on the top portion will not be aligned once slotted into place to close.Prepped all of my vegetables and away we went. It was much quieter than I was expecting which was a bonus. It was also much quicker. The juice was delicious.I love this thing. The only thing I dislike is the stupid bits that get stuck to the shredder thing but that’s going to happen with any juicer. That’s the pain in the ass part of this whole thing. Having to spend twice as long as you spent washing everything else on scrubbing the stupid grate thing to get all of the bits out. No it’s not a crazy amount of time but this is one of the reasons I’m glad I only have to do it every third day.Get this sucker it’s great.

The juicer worked good. I was surprised how quick and quiet it was. For the price I got it, with coupon, it can't be beat!!The Amazon description says 2 yr warranty, yet the information that came with the unit says 3 yrs. The manufacturer will double that if you register via email.Support to date is excellent. I've read reviews of more expensive units from other companies not responding and providing poor customer support. Mueller responds to emails within 24 hrs and didn't waste time responding to this review.The juiced product left no foam and had a deep color and richer taste then my older juicer.The 150 watt unit also includes a reverse switch in case your food gets stuck. I only needed this feature once.But there are some issues with this juicer. It would be easier if Mueller made the alignment "red" dots more prominent (bigger and brighter) so its easier to see.The extracted pulp is not overly dry, but not sopping wet either. Not a big issue.Cleaning would be super easy if the pulp chute was designed better so users could access it more easily to clean. I had to use a chop stick to poke out from the front the celery stuck in the shoot. One time I had to use priers to pull out the celery strains stuck in the inside pulp shoot - frustrating. Cutting celery pieces to 1 inch only helped slightly. The included brush is helpful too and does a good job of cleaning the metal juice strainer. But it too is no solution for cleaning celery from the pulp shoot. I'm guessing it works better with less fibrous food.Not all the pulp is filtered out with the included plastic juice strainer. The very bottom always seems to have too much pulp. I had to use my own metal strainer to filter out the pulp. Mueller should include a fine metal strainer to remove 99.9% of the pulp. Nothing ruins a juice drink more then pulp, unless you like pieces of fruit and veggies in your drink.Taking apart the unit to clean takes a little bit of time and twisting. But this might be a result of the celery.I would recommend this unit under $100 if your willing to spend the extra time cleaning and filtering the juice. This unit gets 5 stars if Mueller can make some suggested improvements.