The media could not be loaded. This is one very cool juicer/grinder. I have wanted one of these Omega Nutrition System juicers for a while. The cool thing is that it comes with different attachments you can use to make more than just juice with it. I juiced a bunch of celery and it worked very nicely--smooth and quiet functioning. Far quieter than centrifugal juicers. I appreciate the straight feed tube which enables the user to feed in whole stalks of celery and whole carrots. The opening is somewhat narrow, so some produce will require cutting. Even the smallest of apples won't fit in this, and neither will most whole cucumbers. Still, those are fairly easy things to cut. I would rather cut those than chop a bunch of celery or carrots, which are much harder. After making celery juice I rinsed everything off and changed out a few of the attachments to make falafel mix. The manual tells you which attachments to use for the mincing/chopping function. Really, it's a grinding function, as there are no blades in this machine and you cannot chop anything with it. Any raw produce or soaked grains and beans you feed into it come out the other end as a semi-fine grind. And unlike a meat grinder, there is no way to select the grind size, no plates you can switch out. The previous night I had soaked dried garbanzo and fava beans in preparation for making falafel. I cut an onion into wedges, peeled a few garlic cloves, and washed some fresh parsley and cilantro. Feeding this all into the chute worked pretty well, although you can see in the video that I did not realize that some "juice" would be produced during this process and that, even changing out the juice screen for the solid blank cone, I still needed to have a container under the juice opening to catch that and later mix it in with the ground ingredients. Why Omega didn't make this with a Juice Release Lever you can close this off with is a mystery to me, given that this machine is also used as a "food processor", and everything in that case needs to be pushed out the other side. Imagine if you will a food processor with a hole in the bottom, and every time you put salsa ingredients in it, all the juice leaked out and flooded your countertop! The fact that you change out the juice screen for a solid cone doesn't cause the liquid produced to be pushed out the other end, nor does it prevent it from leaking out the juice hole underneath. This is really dumb. I have their Omega MM400GY Medical Medium Celery Juicer (www.amzn.com/B09NDWGL5S), and it does have the ability to close this opening off. Nothing in the manual warns you about this. Still, in the end, the falafel mix it produced is beautiful! I just had to capture and mix all of the liquid back in. I will make dosa batter with this next, although I'm guessing it will be coarser than what I usually make with my blender. I don't know if running it through multiple times would make a finer grind. Now I have yet to see if, even after washing the parts with soap and water, a sorbet I make after this will taste like onions and garlic. That remains to be seen, and would lessen the utility and versatility of this machine. Cleanup is pretty easy. In general the parts simply rinse off, and the included brush works great to remove any stuck on bits from screens and crevices. Except for the case where you are going to make something afterwards that tastes very different from what you just made, there's no real need to do anything more than rinse everything off under running water. And the non-brush end of their brush works perfectly to dislodge impacted food from what they call the bread stick nozzles, which are also used in the food processing function.
