Selecting a juicer to buy can be quite confusing, so here are a few points to consider when comparing different models.
1. There are two main kinds of juicers, fast ones and slow ones. This sounds silly but here's how - fast juicers shred up your ingredients a let the juice drain out of the shredded up pulp. They can be lightning fast, but make lower quality juice. The juice they make can be aerated and goes off faster and has a lowered level of vitamins present. These are called rotary juicers or centrifugal juicers and are the most common sort. Slow juicers (commonly called masticating juicers, masticating=chewing) work by slowly grinding and crushing your ingredients. They take a lot longer but make much better, healthier juice that keeps for 2-3 days and has more vitamin content. Not as common in stores, and often sold in heath food shops.
2. How easy is it to take apart and clean? often overlooked, but you will be doing this every time you use it - so if it has lots of little bits, then it will be a big job to clean. Most modern juicers are designed to be very easy to clean though.
3. How loud is it - if you can, have the shop turn it on so you can hear it running - some models are seriously SCARY in terms of how much noise they make!
4. Finally, is is appropriate to the fruits and vegetables you want to juice. Does it have a nice, big chute that will take say whole carrots, or will it require you to spend more time cutting every thing up into little pieces. Some modern juicers actually have chutes designed to take whole apples now, saving a lot of time indeed.
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