Fruit Press 1.3 L Aluminum / Stainless Steel

I like it that it is small and compact. I think I got a open box return. There were scratches on the item and the box looked old and re-taped. The item is sturdy. I chopped up the veggies into small pieces and put it through 4 layers of cheese cloth. This might have been too much as I think the fabric soaked up a lot the the juice. The same amount of veggies I get from juicer is about 1 cup. This yielded 1/4. Juicer has more fiber, contained foam, and was cloudy from the fiber. The juice from this press was clear, no foam, and no fiber. I think this press would be excellent if you are looking for pure juice for wine making. However, for my purposes of getting more veggies in my diet, this didn't serve my purpose. The reason I got this was because I thought it would be easier to clean and use less water. My juice has many parts and I feel I waste more water cleaning it after each use. This press was very easy to clean. Just a quick rinse of the stainless steel pots and a rinse of the cheese cloth. Note: my unit did not come with the plastic tubing.

For me, there were two major problems. 1st, there was no stopper on the end of drain tube. Had to get a cork for it. 2nd, cranked it as hard as I could and still, never got any juice. I'm a big guy, (6' 3" 225lbs) and never got any grape juice from squeeze.

Makes it much easier to drain the water from zucchini or cauliflower when using as base for a pizza crust. It's perfect.

We've used this press on at least 3 different types of fruits so far and it's worked great! So glad we purchased this, only wish we'd done it sooner.

Great product and cheap price.

The shaft of the press rusted after one use. To be clear, I pressed maybe 400 mL of juice, rinsed thoroughly, and dried with a towel before allowing to air dry. Now there is rust throughout the shaft and there are rust shavings all over my fruit if I attempt to use it. Tldr: do not waste your money on this.

Just OK. I got more juice with hand squeezing with a cheese cloth bag. Not sure why the top press piece isn't flat, or even better, a separate flat disc for the top of the press would be even better. For this small size you'll get just as much liquid out hand squeezing with a bag.

Once I had my blackberries thawed, the press worked well with and without a mesh bag. The issue I had was there was a considerable number of metal filings/dust coming from the central screw. Once juice was squeezing through the top plate, some of those filings were falling into the juice. Some way to bolt it to a tabletop/workbench would be nice too.

I use this to squeeze wild black raspberries. I put a milk bag in it and it works Great! Saves me hours of hand squeezing!

Life is easy with this new press. What used to take me over an hour of small batch (hand press) pressing, now takes less than 20 minutes. The only down fall to this product is the screw mechanism. Perhaps because I haven't yet broken in this product fully but the screw on the press plate drips a litter bit of grease so care needs to be taken to avoid it getting into my product. A paper towel around the screw while pressing seems to help but I still am leary of a fully press until I know it is gone. Other than that ... LOVE IT! Easy clean up and no mess all over my counters. :-)