Tribest Green Star 3000 Deluxe Juicer/Juice Extractor

Comment: I was not disappointed with this juicer. Very happy with it. This was recommended to me by my daughter. Had a Champion before and it was always getting hot. Very happy.

Comment: I am a diehard juicer. I have been doing it since the mid 1990's and could write a book about the benefits of juicing. I've went many of the centrifugal juicers and settled on a Champion juicer in the late 1990's. I used it happily for many years. Earlier this year I decided to get a new juicer and wanted the "best" I had visions of nut butters, pasta, not to mention the wheatgrass juice. Anyway, I have to say this is the hardest juicer I have EVER had to try to clean. I worked and worked to get the itty bitty parts clean, finally leaving everything soaking in the kitchen sink and then begging my husband to help with his added upper body strength. Also, the juice itself was not the greatest. Very foamy and I had to enlist my hubbie AGAIN to help me get veggies and such down the chute and through the auger. It does NOT juice fruit without a fight. I sold it and am getting an Omega 8006. I have a friend that has an 8005 and I have had the pleasure of using hers and drinking the wonderfully clear juice it produces. SO I would suggest you save your money and get either a Champion or an Omega. Happy Juicing!!

Comment: I bought this juicer after using one that my cousin had and I fell in love! It can do everything and I have only just begun using it. The vegetable juice even seems to taste better then the juice high speed juicers make. I love the "sorbet" you can make with fruit and look forward to making baby food with it in the future, it is awesome!

Comment: I had my GreenStar for four years. I juiced from 8-13 juices a day and it kept running. It was much cheaper than the Norwalk juicer and probably a lot easier to clean with less steps involved in juicing, although the pulp was not as dry as it could be. I decided to try the Super Angel mainly because it was impossible to clean the Green Star. The plastic pieces are stained and it looks pretty awful (but remember 4 years of daily juicing!) since the Super Angel 3500 is made entirely of stainless steel. The Green Star is around $450 and the Super Angel is $800 so you are paying more. But here are the differences: SA much easier to put together- 3 parts vs GS at 7. SA much quieter. SA much easier to clean and sterilize (you can put stainless steel in dishwasher but not the GS with its plastic). Finally, the pulp is drier with the SA meaning you are extracting more vitamins and minerals and buying less produce. I haven't had the SA long so I don't know if it has the staying power of the GS but I'm extremely happy with the results. If you can afford it I would suggest the SA. It would probably have made up the difference in cost with the produce I was juicing fairly quickly (at 8-13 juices a day). I started juicing after I was dx with clear cell ovarian cancer. I was very serious about juicing but didn't think I would be able to consistently juice with the Norwalk (too hard & time consuming). Although I haven't used a Norwalk (I have seen videos on how to juice with it) I don't think you could get any more juice from the SA pulp and the SA is a lot cheaper than the Norwalk, which at the last time I looked into it was running around $2000..
But back to the Greenstar: I have to say for the money the GS was a faithful worker but terrible to clean. Since Amazon doesn't sell the Super Angel I goggled it and order it from another site. I've ordered hundreds of items, books, gifts, etc. from Amazon and I would have liked to order the Super Angel 3500 from them but they didn't carry it.

Comment: This machine is just as great as everyone says. I use it every morning and a glass of fresh juice is the first thing I consume. The green star is tough as nails, produces more juice volume than pulp volume, and the quality of the juice is phenomenal. Plus it's shockingly quiet, so you can guiltlessly make juice in the wee hours and not worry about waking the other members of your household with the racket coming from the kitchen. Clean up is not that big of a deal, start to finish the whole process of making, cleaning up, and consuming my breakfast is around 20 minutes.

My only complaint, and this is minor given the overall performance of the machine, is that information about using the pasta and bread stick attachments is very minimal.

The DVDs focus exclusively on juicing and sorbet making, almost to the point of being tedious, and the manual has only very brief descriptions for either process. I've made amazing sprouted wheat crackers because I'm willing to experiment, but the booklet only mentions sticks. The pasta recipe calls for "premade pasta dough mix", which I didn't know existed, and the only piece of advice given for processing is that the dough shouldn't be "too wet".

I'd appreciate more specifics, especially when considering the same manual includes multitudes of recipes for juice concoctions, which are far easier to come up with by good old fashioned trial and error. Why not include some recipes for coconut noodles or alternatives for those with certain grain allergies? Why weren't these more technical processes included in the video how-tos? Shoving fruits and veggies into a shoot isn't all that mentally or culinarily (is that a word?) demanding. I suppose I can find pasta recipes for other machines online and adopt them, but if the advertising is going to hype the extra features of their product, the buyer should feel confident in their ability to utilize those features to the fullest extent and shouldn't feel obligated to search for outside information for guidance.

Still, four and a half out of five stars. I'll be using this machine when I'm 75, hopefully.