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42 of 42 found the following review helpful:
 No problems Mar 24, 2002
By Stephen McHenry
I have had this juicer for a year now, and have not experienced any of the problems noted in the other reviews. We may use it 4 times a week for several weeks, or only on weekends for a month. It looks good, is sturdy, and is easy to clean. Place the orange or whatever in the holder, slowly press down on the paddle style handle, and its juice galore. For larger fruits or bigger oranges, lift the handle up, reposition the fruit carcass a little, one more squeeze and Bobs-your-uncle. We like the machine just fine.
36 of 37 found the following review helpful:
 Looks great! Works ... O.K. Aug 22, 2003
If you're looking for an orange juicer that will look great on your cabinet, then this might be the one. But if you're looking for a juicer that's user friendly and efficient, you might want to look somewhere else (like Metrokane's Chef's Juicer). When I bought the Mighty OJ, I noticed problems right off the bat. In the first place, it's hard to get an orange in this thing. There's barely enough clearance. So, if the orange is big, you have to sort of wedge it into the juicer. Then, the handle is short, so it's hard to get a good grip on it. If you don't hold down the left side of the juicer, it'll tip over when you press the lever down and spill juice everywhere. Also, with large oranges, this juicer won't remove all the juice. It will leave a ring of the juicy part of the orange just inside the peel. If you make orange juice once a week, these things might not bother you. If you make juice every day, they could be pretty annoying.
31 of 32 found the following review helpful:
 Big Mess, Wasted Fruit, Smashed Fingers, but the BEST JUICE! Apr 02, 2003
By Chuck Latshaw
I bought one of these to see if it really was better than the super cheapo electric juicer I've been using for about three months. (It's one with the spinning squeezie cone...) The first time I tried the Mighty OJ, I didn't think to hold on to the machine, and it slipped, spilling OJ and peel bits everywhere, while falling on my hand, bruising up my fingers pretty badly. OK... my fault. I tried again... and found that it just really doesn't handle normal sized oranges (about a big as a child's fist) very well. For something bigger than a lemon, it only squeezes the middle, and leaves a ring of unsquashed, messy orange on the outside. BUT, you can see that where it does squeeze the orange, it gets EVERY little bit of juice out! So... after mutilating about four oranges, and throwing about a third of each in the trash, I took a sip. It's really the best dang juice I ever tasted. I was amazed at how much better the juice tasted than the juice I squeezed out of the same batch of oranges with my electric doodad. So... I guess I'll buy little dinky oranges from now on... :)
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 A nice juicer May 29, 2002
By Eric J. Fridman
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This is a nice sturdy machine. Works great with oranges - you just cut them in half first. It is so easy to clean-up too. It extracts a large amount of juice from every piece of fruit and is so simple to operate. You definitely get the most juice out of this that one could squeeze from a piece of fruit. I too have noticed metal shavings - but only around the top of the device where the gears come out of. With the machine properly assembled, I do not see how the shavings could fall down into the juice. I have not noticed any other problems like a foot being loose or anything like that. The frame on mine is one solid piece of metal so I'm not sure how the steel could easily break.
33 of 36 found the following review helpful:
Don't buy it. Jul 04, 2005
By Peter W. Fraser
I don't like gadgets, particularly electrical kitchen gadgets.
Somehow the thought of using an electrical can opener rather than a mechanical one strikes me as idiotic. For that reason, I suffered with a Metrokane mechanical juicer for a long time. It was a pain to use, a pain to clean, was not very efficient, and shed little particles of aluminum. I then got a Braun MPZ22. The Braun is marvelous, much cheaper, more efficient and easier to clean; 15 seconds under a running faucet immediately after you have used it is all it needs.
Buy the Braun instead!!
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