CO-Z Manual Citrus Juicer, Commercial Grade Cast Iron Orange Juicer, Professional Heavy Duty Juice Press with Removable Strainer, Manual Juice Extractor for Orange Lemon Pomegranate Citrus, Black

We've been using the hand-held "plier" type squeezer. I say "we"... , I'm the one who has been doing all the squeezing since my wife has some trouble with her hands. There had to be a better, smarter, more effective/efficient way.Enter this counter-top squeezer. Wow. This is so quick and easy to use, and it's so efficient! Those lemons and limes don't stand a chance! When I get through with them, they're dry!It's really nice that the handle goes to the bottom of the stroke and lightly locks there. I let it stay there for three or four seconds until the juice stops dripping. It's very easy to clean and it sits nicely in its own little patch of counter top.It's quite sturdy. It's well-made. Ergonomic. Efficient. Well worth the price! If you do a lot of squeezing, this squeezer will make you giddy!

My wife and I have had several types of hand powered juicers, this juicer is the easiest to use of all the ones we have owned.. It take much less force to extract juice from fruit. We used it to juice lemons. Our last juicer required as much force as we could deliver and it still wouldn't remove all the juice from each lemon half. Afterward, we could squeeze the lemon by hand and get more juice out of it. This new unit gets all the juice out with a fraction of the force required.It is built solid and is ease to clean. The manual is ease to understand. It has some legal stuff at the beginning and after that is the useful information.Note, you will need to find a container to collect the juice as the fruit is squeezed. I suggest using a clear measuring cup that is short enough to fit under the funnel. that way it is easy to see when it is getting full.Full disclosure, we purchased this item with our own money.

I have two orange trees and a lemon tree so I've been juicing for years. I've always used an electric juicer but had my eye on the more expensive version of this hand pressed juicer. I finally bit the bullet during a black friday sale and bought this less expensive version.Pros:QUIET! Love that I can juice early in the morning without the grinding electric sound. Its very easy to use and extracts more juice then the electric one's ever did. The handle glides up and down with ease and very little pressure is needed, unlike the electrics where you need to push down and sometimes move the citus around to get all sides juiced. So much easier to clean as well. Electric juicers kind of dance around my counter so I have to keep a towel under then, they also drip. This manual one doesn't budge. Its also better at keeping seeds and pulp out.Cons:While doing a big batch of oranges I didn't lift the handle fully and when I went to remove an orange it slammed down on my finger REALLY hard!! Left a dent and was sore for good amount of time. This could be a very tragic injury if little hands are helping. I now keep one hand on the handle at all times. The only other downside is the two feet at the base are not wide enough or tall enough for a cup to fit under to collect the juice. I use a sandwich tupperware to straddle the feet and its low enough to fit under. If anyone else has a suggestion I'd love to hear it.Possibly the more expensive version doesn't have the con's I've experienced but my husband and I plan to move in a couple years and most likely wont have fruit bearing trees so its not worth the investment for me at this time. But I do wish I had purchased it much much sooner! I would probably have juiced a lot more.

I am giving this product 5 stars, but it could be better. As someone else has pointed out the handle does not lock in the upright position. I knew this before I purchased but I didn’t think it was a big deal. I have been “bitten” by this thing 2 times already. Case 1: this is when the handle is up and you go to remove the juiced orange it is natural for you to use two hands to remove the orange remains, sometimes it gets a little stuck. In this position if you hit the upper part of the squeezing mechanism the handle is heavy enough to bring down the pressing parts on any part of your hand that may still be inside getting the squeezed orange residue out. When this happens you can get quite a nasty bruise on your finger…ask me how I know. Case 2 another thing that can happen is that with the handle up (and I do tend to leave it up), if you are doing something that jars the mechanism the handle itself can deal a powerful blow to your nose/glasses/face…once again, ask me how I know. I would suggest some sort of magnet positioned to restrain the handle until it is purposely pulled down, I guess there could also be some sort of spring to do the same, but that would add extra resistance while pressing down on the fruit, or maybe a counter weight on the handle to give it sort of a neutral weight. I know there are a lot of similar models on the market which likely have the same issue.This squeezer does a great job on lemons and smallish oranges but when you get the big navel oranges they squeeze around the edge of the top pressing cup without getting fully juiced. What to do? Buy smaller oranges or rather than cutting the orange in half you can take a slice out of the middle ~1/3 inch and set it aside press the remaining “not quite half’s” and get about the same amount of juice plus some nice orange slices that can be cut in half and saved as easy to eat tasty treats. As a final note don’t buy a juicer to save money, I figure a gallon of home made OJ cost $20-24 dollars, unless you can get free oranges somewhere…If you want cheap, go to the store, if you want fresh good stuff and possibly with a side order orange slices get one of these things…just be careful to not get bit.

You could NOT get this much juice from an electric juicer, unless you KILLED your arm pushing down on the rotating cone. This is worth the money, and with care will last a Long time. We juiced OJ and put in the fridge for later, but note that it takes a LOT of oranges to make a pitcher of OJ.!! We juiced lemons too, and put in a baggie in the freezer to grab out for smoothies and for recipes. I think this extracts WAY more than you could by hand OR by electric rotating-cone juicer ever could. Worth the money, because you can store it to use as needed. I should have shown a photo of the empty orange rinds, but I have never gotten them so 'clean' when juicing by hand. !! IF you have the storage space (like in the garage, etc.) to keep it until you use it again, well worth the expense.We tested it and it was easy to use, my 78 year old mother with arthritis was able to pull down the lever to use as well. I was going to buy her an electric one, where she would have to hold the half-citrus against a rotating cone to ream out the juice. Reviews said that would be tedious on her arms, so we opted for this well-reviewed one. I am very happy with the purchase. No directions came in the box, but we knew what to do. Have only used it on medium sized oranges and on large lemons, and it was great. Very satisfying to see the near-dry empty peels after extracting. I feel we will waste much less now. and can juice up lemons (for example) and just freeze the juice in baggies or in ice cube trays for future use. Lemons last less than a week on the counter, so now I will just extract them right away, rather than waiting until they turn brown and feel the need to DO something with them asap. Hope this helps! : )

Amazing piece of equipment. Squeezes citrus 95% dry. I used it for as small as little limes and as big as a ruby red grapefruit. I love this machine and do recommended it. It’s very sturdy.

I've had this for a couple months and have only juiced limes, but I am very pleased. This thing is a beast; it's a little taller and a little heavier than I expected. For some reason the cast iron doesn't feel as solid as my cast iron pan, but it works and feels sturdy when using it. Does a great job juicing with little effort. Clean up is easy. And, when you're done, it looks good sitting on the counter. I'd buy it again, for sure.When I was shopping, I found several juicers that looked almost exactly like this on Amazon ranging in price from $50 to $75. Poked around Alibaba; appears they all come from the same manufacturer. I didn't buy the cheapest one on Amazon as I like that this product doesn't have any visible logos or print on it.UPDATE 5/16/20. Price has gone from $47 to $65 in the last month. There might be better deals on Amazon for the exact same product.

Great squeeze! Needs to have a safety latch for the handle. When left up the handle easily drops.

Me gustó este producto porque la verdad si cumple muy bien la función de exprimir lo que quiero y aparte lo hace bastante bien, es más hasta mejor que los exprimidores eléctricos y aparte no se gasta luz porque es manual.

I love it long lasting, easy to use

Répond totalement à mes attentes. Très solide et facile à laver

Very useful

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