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Juicing Guides

Everything that is not a buying decision: starting, cleaning, storing, and fixing it when it jams.

By Brijon M. · Last reviewed October 2, 2026

Most juicers that stop getting used were not badly chosen. They were abandoned, usually in the first month, usually because of cleanup or produce cost. These guides are about the parts of juicing that happen after the purchase, which is where the habit is actually won or lost.

If you have not bought anything yet

Three pages, in this order. Is a juicer worth it is the one to read before you spend anything, because for some people the answer is genuinely no and it is cheaper to find that out now. Juicing for beginners covers what the habit actually involves day to day. How to choose your first juicer turns that into a buying decision.

The honest summary of all three: a juicer is a machine that converts money and twelve minutes into a glass of juice. If that trade appeals, almost any machine in our roundups will do. If it does not, no machine fixes it.

What the four criteria actually mean

Every commercial page on this site judges machines on yield, pulp, cleanup time and price. These guides are where those words get defined, because they are used loosely everywhere else:

  • Juicer yield explained -- what yield means, why nobody publishes it comparably, and what to look at instead.
  • Juicer pulp explained -- dry pulp versus wet pulp, pulp in the glass versus pulp in the bin, and why they are different questions.
  • The easiest juicers to clean -- the specific design features that reduce washing, as opposed to the marketing word "easy".
  • Quietest juicers -- what is actually published about noise, which is very little.

Keeping the habit

The practical failure modes are predictable and they all have guides. Cleanup fatigue: how to clean a juicer and whether you have to clean it after every use. Produce cost: juicing on a budget and how much celery one cup takes. Waste guilt: what to do with juicer pulp. Time: how long fresh juice lasts, which is really a guide to batching.

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Cleanup is the most common reason a juicer stops being used, which is why it is weighted as heavily as yield in everything we score.

When something goes wrong

Two guides cover nearly every complaint. Why your juicer is not making much juice covers thin output, wet pulp and a screen that needs more attention than you are giving it. Juicer clogging fixes covers the celery problem specifically, which is the single most common jam in a cold press machine and almost always fixable with technique rather than a new machine.

What these guides will not do

Everything here is written by one person, named on every page, and corrections are genuinely welcome -- the contact page exists partly for that. Where a factual claim changes, the page carries a dated note saying so rather than being quietly edited.

Start here

Each of these carries its own picks, the four-criteria table and a source label on every figure.

Guides in this section

Questions people ask

What should a complete beginner read first?
Is a juicer worth it, then juicing for beginners, then how to choose your first juicer. In that order -- the first one occasionally saves people a few hundred dollars.
Do I really have to clean a juicer after every use?
Practically, yes, and the reason is mechanical rather than hygienic theater: pulp dries hard in a mesh screen and becomes much harder to remove later. Our guide to that specific question covers what you can reasonably defer and what you cannot.
How long can I keep fresh juice?
It depends on the machine, the produce and the container, and the published advice varies a lot. How long fresh juice lasts covers what manufacturers claim, including Omega's 72-hour storage claim for its 80 RPM machines, and where those claims come from.
Do you give nutrition or health advice?
No. We write about machines. We hold no medical or nutritional credentials and we will not borrow authority we do not have, so you will not find health claims here in either direction.

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