Review on Tribest Slowstar SW-2000 Red Cold Press Juicer & Juice Extractor With Mincer by Elizabeth Fuentes

Overall, I’m very pleased with this juicer. I have an old Jack LaLanne juicer and was ready to try a masticating juicer but wasn’t entirely ready to go to a horizontal masticating juicer for two reasons - the size of my storage space primarily and not wanting to push produce in hard. For comparison, the Jack juices fast and has a large shoot so little prep is required, however the juice yield for greens is small, pulp is wet, and high RPM/heat/oxidation supposedly reduces nutrients. I made two juices before writing this - carrot, apple, lemon and apple, fennel, spinach, cucumber, lemon.Pros:- Easy enough to put together. I did watch a video as one part can be a little confusing but as soon as you understand it really is easy.- Handled all the produce great, even the carrots and fennel. I didn’t cut the carrots at all and the auger takes little "bites” as it pulls them down. No pushing! Fennel stalks are like celery on steroids and it took them great too.- Almost no pushing! It sucked things right in except a few apple slices that were so light they sat on top and the auger just bounced them around a little. As soon as I added something on top they went down. Less pushing than Jack! I think twice I used the plunger making the green juice.- Pulp is DRY. Very dry. Way better than Jack!- Juice yield on the spinach was impressive. Because the bowl is clear you can see how much you get from each item which is cool. Fun! I never juiced spinach with Jack because it was a waste of produce you got so little.- Most of the cleanup is easy (see cons).- Drip cover is AMAZING! What a great invention. No more swapping cups under the spout to catch drips, tipping the machine to get them all out, etc. Little thing but I love it! Less mess.- Despite shoot being smaller than Jack, it didn’t require too much more prep. Instead of quartering apples I cut in 8ths. I was afraid I’d hate this part of a masticating juicer but it’s fine. Glad I didn’t spring for the wide mouth Kuving! Not an issue like I thought it would be.- Came with a nice (though small) strainer. Pulp amount is fine. I strained the carrot juice because the pulp is a little firmer but not the green juice. Just preference.- Takes about as much space as a blender. Perfect! Lots of parts to store away though. Can’t wait to try the mincer on some frozen bananas!Cons:- Cleaning the screen takes about 5 minutes. All other parts rinse easily but the screen is slow to clean. Not hard to clean. just slow. This was the same with Jack but worse because the screen in Jack was so much larger. I imagine all juicer screens have this issue.- The bristles on the cleaning brush it comes with are too soft to be effective. So what. I used my regular kitchen brush fine.- The plastic pitchers seem nice but they are terrible for pouring juice. The spout isn’t pointed enough and juice spills everywhere. (I saw this in a YouTube video as well so it wasn’t just me.) Not a big deal though - you can use anything to catch the juice. I’ll use my large glass Pyrex measuring cup. Bummer that they can’t include something decent though.Neutral/Comments:- The auger takes a good tug to come out and it gets pulp up underneath it. This didn’t seem to affect anything so maybe not really an issue but I’m not sure if this is user error or normal. UPDATE: I was pulling the auger out alone instead of the whole casing with the auger in it. It is easier On the fingers doing the whole casing HOWEVER, it still takes a really good tug.- When done there’s still some pulp in the pulp shoot you have to poke out. A perfect curved tool is provided and it’s easy but if you lose the tool that might be awkward. I thought water pressure would be enough to dislodge it but because the pulp is so dry it really sticks in there. Not a big deal, just interesting. I think it’s just a result of the design? Takes about 30 seconds or less extra when cleaning.Overall I love this compared to my Jack! I will be selling him today. :) I would be interested to test this against the Omega upright masticating juicer out of curiosity but I would definitely buy the Slowstar again! Looking forward to renewing my juicing habit!UPDATE: I put frozen bananas into the mincer attachment and made "ice cream”. HEAVEN. So good! My kids thought it was regular banana ice cream. Can’t wait to try some other fruits. Also, there’s quite a bit of foam on the top of the juice. I thought masticating was supposed to reduce that, but no. Still happy with it and would be 5 stars if the auger were easier to remove.