Metrokane Mighty OJ Manual Juice Squeezer, Chrome

Product Description

Top of the line polished chrome exterior finish makes the Mighty OJ retro-style juicer a true "Original". Cone and funnel are polished stainless steel. International Design Award Winner at the Frankfurt Fair, this chic and functional juicer is designed to look great on any bar or countertop. Easier to use and clean than electric juicers, it's a must for anyone who demands the ultimate in freshness.

How disappointing. The problem with this juicer is that it does not squeeze the fruit completely, not even 75% I would say. Like some other reviewers said, it leaves a rim of unsqueezed pulp around the edges of oranges -- it does the same for limes. Even after reading some of the other reviews I had some hope that it would still work for limes, which we use most often. Alas, not. If you still insist on buying one of these lame juicers, I have since found them at Crateandbarrel for 39.95 -- their description touts the "museum-quality design", but tellingly says little about performance. Better to find something else.



I have now owned two of these juicers. Both have broken (the handle gets off-kilter and gradually disassembles itself; the head of the juicer cracks and eventually breaks from the stem). My first one lasted two years so I bought another when that broke. The second one is less than a year old; the head attachment is cracked and ready to break; the handle once again is gradually disintegrating. In addition, the second one is much more shoddy than the first; the 'cup' in the top does not fit cleanly into its seating. I will not buy a third and I strongly advise against purchasing this product.


We received this as a gift just when our old electric one had bitten the dust. I was excited to have a durable product. But within a week my husband insisted that we replace this with another electric citrus juicer (we make oj every morning). Here are my pros and cons:
Pro:
Squeezes lemons just fine and requires less cleaning for a little bit of lemon juice than the electric one.
Cons:
Doesn't get out all the juice--we had to use 1.5 times the number of oranges as with the electric citrus juicer.
Big oranges or grapefruits don't fit.
Requires a lot of force--my hand and shoulder were extremely sore after I used this the first time.
Not very stable, you have to be careful not to let it fall over.

We kept it for the occasional lemon squeezing, since the store it is from is an hour and a half from us. But we bought an electric citrus juicer.



No matter how hard you press, it is impossible to get all the juice out of your citrus. Early on I learned to accept the face that even small limes and lemons would have moisture left in the rind. Even with mild to light usage, the juicer broke two of its tines after just two years - making the whole thing useless.


This is really a quite awful and useless product. I used a restaurant-grade juicer for many years, and when it died, I went looking for another. I made the mistake of buying this product.

It does not do a good job. I had been spoiled by the old juicer, just cut in half, place on the juicer and pull the handle (maybe push a second time). And done. With this product, you do that, and you have to repeat, over and over and over, and still you have not extracted the juice. There is no leverage, no clearance, not enough height between the top (the operative part) and the fruit. It is not hard to clean, just clunky and noisy and I know I am cleaning something that was just totally useless.

I find myself squeezing juice by hand, every morning, rather than approach this thing. The reason: I get a lot more juice by hand than by using this critter. My dislike for this product borders on personal. :)

Does anyone know where I might find an old restaurant/bar-type juice squeezer?


The cone and funnel parts are made of aluminum and will eventually discolor. I shouldn't have put them in the dishwasher, I know, but they turned black and began turning my lime juice gray. I pitched the whole machine.


Although I ordered the juicer in the color black, I received the product in white. If not for the color I would have purchased it locally. After approximately 6 months of satisfactory occasional use the juicer is no longer functional. Some of the teeth on the gear that is connected to the press lever have broken off. I had expected a product this simple would have lasted for years. I am obviously totally disappointed.


First, this product did succeed in producing awesome tasting orange juice and made us lifelong converts to fresh-squeezed juice.<p>But, it's sized so only small oranges are efficiently juiced. Larger ones cause the juicer cup to overflow, and a rim around the edge goes unsqueezed (wasted). <p>Finally, despite the "800 pounds of pressure" claim, our gear mechanism broke after, say 200 oranges were squeezed. It's ironic, because the rest of the machine is bomb-proof heavy metal, but the gear wheel is some cheap-o alloy that split in half!<p>We just purchased an OrangeX Express and hope for better luck.


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.


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. <p>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. <p>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. <p>So... I guess I'll buy little dinky oranges from now on... :)

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About Metrokane Mighty OJ Manual Juice Squeezer, Chrome detail

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22579 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: Chrome
• Brand: Metrokane
• Model: 3506
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.00" h x 7.00" w x 7.00" l, 5.00 pounds

Features

• Manual juicer for fresh-squeezed citrus juices
• Powerful gear system with 800 pounds of pressure
• Durable all-metal construction; 7 inches high
• Easier to use and clean than electric juicers; squeezes sweeter juice
• Lifetime warranty on moving parts

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