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.

makes juicing citrus that much faster!

great product

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.

I bought the CO-Z Hand Press Juicer Machine last week after watching some pretty convincing testimonial videos online. I was curious to see how well it actually worked. Yesterday, I went to Costco and bought 8 pounds of oranges, 8 pounds of grapefruits, and 4 pounds of limes to test it out. The first thing I noticed was that I didn’t have a glass, cup, or container that could fit between the horseshoe-shaped base of the juicer. I also didn’t have anything short enough to fit underneath to catch the juice. Eventually, I found an old plastic container that worked. I started with the limes. The juicer handled them well and extracted nearly every drop of juice. I was pretty impressed. Next, I moved on to the grapefruits. The design of the juicer is decent — half of a full-sized grapefruit fits under the press snuggly. However, once I pressed it down, the outer edge of the fruit wasn't fully juiced. I tried cutting the grapefruit into quarters instead, which worked better, although fitting the wedge into the juicer was a bit awkward due to its shape. Lastly, I juiced the oranges. Similar to the grapefruit, pressing down on a halved orange didn’t extract juice from the edges. I had to cut the oranges into quarters to get the most juice out of them. In the end, I was able to extract: 697 grams of lime juice (already excluding the bottle’s weight), 837 grams of grapefruit juice, 1,280 grams of orange juice. From my experience, the larger the fruit, the lower the juice yield. This seems to be due to the design of the press—if the fruit is too large, it doesn't fit properly and some juice escapes during the process, which results in waste. I think this would work best for lemon and lime. This was my personal experience, and I just wanted to share it with you all.