Everyone loves fresh squeezed orange juice and this juicer works great!

I love fresh squeezed orange juice, but, it is always too darned expensive to actually order off of a menu when dining out. Many times, if I had a choice between treats potato chips, chocolate bar, or a glass of fresh orange juice, I would gladly pick the fresh orange juice. So, by having a juicer, I can have fresh squeezed anytime.

I bought this citrus juicer for $20 at Costco 3 years ago. It was cheap. It works. It is one appliance that always stays out on my kitchen counter, along with the toaster, and, like the toaster, it gets used. It is fairly compact and doesn't take up much space, and, having it 'front and center' motivates me to buy lots of citrus and then make myself a glass at least once a week. Fresh orange juice is heavenly, and so incredibly good for you, so, this juicer is a good thing.

It is easy to use. Select your citrus fruit (lemons, oranges, grapefruit, limes), cut them in half, then, press them on the juicing cone. No peeling. The juicer does the work for you. No on or off button. The pressing makes it spin. The juice pours out the beak into your glass. The beak is only so high, so, you can't juice directly into a really tall glass or pitcher (unless of course you are persistent like me and put the juicer up on a phone book to give it a couple of extra inches of height so that you can juice into a pitcher). It cannot juice other kinds of fruit. Just citrus.

The beak snaps shut, so you can close it and not have it dribble on the counter while you switch glasses being filled.

Handling different size fruits, whether a compact little lime or a really big fat grapefruit, is no problem.

The juicing is fairly efficient, nothing is left inside the peel shell of the orange once you're done. After the last orange, I do tip the basket to tilt out the very last bit of juice, and then I quickly run it under water to rinse. If you leave it long enough after juicing, the last little bit of juice will eventually drip out of the beak, but, my tilting just speeds the process up, and then I rinse it fast. If you leave the basket for a couple of hours with pulp in it, it gets a bit sticky, and then to get it clean, you will need the dishwasher (I for one am too lazy to do anything other than a quick pass under running water to clean it up).

The machine has 4 parts: the base machine, the detachable plastic basket, the plastic cone, and a transparent plastic dust cover that fits over the cone. I put the plastic parts in the dishwasher if I have been too lazy to run the cone and basket under water (no soap) after I have finished juicing. I call that easy clean up.

It is durable. My has sat beside my stove for years, and I notice one side is a bit concave, probably as a result of being too near too high heat for too long. Yet still, it has taken a licking and kept on ticking.

For $20, you can't go run. Other citrus juicers let the juice flow into an attached beaker, which seems dumb to me, because that limits the amount of juice you can make and it dirties another dish unnecessarily. Other juicers require one to peel citrus fruit before they can be accepted for juicing. What a pain in the behind. If I go to the trouble of peeling an orange, I am going to eat it not juice it. But hey, that's just me.

It takes 3 minutes to slice 6 small oranges, and, another 3 minutes to juice them. Pretty fast. It might be overwhelming making juice for a brunch party of 10, but still, it could be done. In fact, I have made ahead gallons of fresh juice for summer parties.