| | |  | Citrus Juicers | Home » » Jupiter Manual Citrus Juicer (aka OrangeX) Professional or Mid-Size Black | | | | | | | Description: | | The OrangeX Company sold the Product Line to Focus Products, LLC and the products are being re-introduced with new identities. Still the pre-eminent manual citrus juicer.
These commercial grade juicers are now available for home use. Fresh squeezed juice from oranges, grapefruits, pomegranates, lemons and limes is readily available with the press of the handle. The juice is sweet, as bitter rind oils are not pressed out. Made of cast iron, 18/10 stainless steel and an ergonomic rubberized handle.
The Large (Olympus) is 3" taller than the Mid-Size (Jupiter) .. Cup and distance from the Cup to Base is the same on Jupiter and Olympus | | | Features: | |
• The Professional / Mid-Size OrangeX is now called The Jupiter Citrus Juicer
• The OrangeX Company sold the Product Line to Focus Products - Products being renamed
• NSF Approved
• 15" Tall - 3" shorter than the Mid-Size
• Manufacturers Limited 1 Year Warranty
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 8.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 15.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 18.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 17.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 12.25 inches | | Package Height:
| 9.75 inches | | Package Weight:
| 16.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 54 reviews |
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70 of 70 found the following review helpful:
Great Juicer, Heavy Duty, Lifetime warranty, Good with Lemons Oranges, Small GrapefruitJul 08, 2008
By P. Langenfeld
This mid-sized Orange-X juicer is a well designed heavy duty juicer that should last a lifetime. It is easy to use and clean and it is powerful enough to be used both commercially and at home.
Some may quibble over whether one juicer is better for oranges or lemons. From reading reviews, one that may be a little better for lemons, or grapefruit probably doesn't do as well with oranges etc due to only one strainer cup size being available. This very heavy duty juicer did a great job for me with lemons, oranges, and small grapefruit. It seems to be optimized for oranges though. However, I use it primarily for lemons and have had no problems except a very tiny bit of the lemon left on the side. I feel the claims about it not working well with lemons are grossly exaggerated and inaccurate.
This juicer has a stainless steel juicing strainer and cup, so the health conscious have no need to worry about aluminum being leached into the acidic juice.
Contrary to what one reviewer said, you cannot hurt your fingers using this juicer as long as you put your hand on the rubber handle (it is hard to use otherwise). The handle has a nice well calibrated stoper at the bottom that keeps you from damaging the unit by over extending when pushing down and still squeezes all the juice out well. The lower push range offers superior leverage over the juicers that have a spring and leave the handle up as you start and end from a higher position with them. (However, either way, it is not going to be hard to juice with this or other heavy duty juicers such as the Hamilton Beach regardless of handle position).
The only thing I don't like about this juicer is that if you leave the handle up and try to move it, the heavy handle will fall easily and it could hit you on the head or face if you are bending over or short. It is particularly easy to have the handle fall since the suction cup feet make it a little difficult to move around and you have to pull and yank on it a bit to get it to move. I bought some standard 4mm screw on bolts and some nice non-marking rubber feet called bumpers (screw, rubber) at Ace hardware for a few dollars that fit perfect into the holes for the screw off suction cups that came with the juicer. My guess is the suction feet were meant primarily to help in a commercial environment where you always kept the juicer in the exact same position and didn't pull the juicer out then push it back on the counter when done like you might do at home. The juicer is so heavy, that even with these new non-suction non-marking rubber feet it doesn't move at all during routine juicing.
Overall, this is a very heavy duty well made and designed juicer and I recommend it for home or commercial use (it is still quit large though called mid-sized). If it were not for the annoying rubber suction cup feet that it came with (and I easily replaced) I would have given it a five star rating. See my full review and explanations under this same mid-sized Orange-X juicer that Amazon itself sends out.
27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 Bulky, but works greatAug 22, 2008
By A. Northrop
I've owned this juicer for over 5 years and it works like a charm for extracting juice from large quantities of limes, lemons or oranges. It is heavy and solidly built, and the lever action runs right through the center of the juicer so no problems with tipping. Not much effort required to get the handle all the way down, which extracts all the juice. If you want to get every last drop, rotate the fruit 1/4 turn and press again, but you get about 95% on the first squeeze. The only down side is the that it is large, heavy and bulky. It would be best if you have the counter space to leave it out all the time. I don't, so it probably gets less use than it otherwise would as I have to haul it out of the cupboard every time. It might work well in an appliance garage too.
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Jupiter versus Hamilton BeachMar 09, 2011
By Cabrini Deb
If you've done your homework, you are likely deciding between the Jupiter and the Hamilton Beach. Both of them will last a lifetime. They are both sturdy and neither will try to tip over on you as you exert pressure on the handle. Your choice will be personal preference. If you're going to be spending hours pressing juice or you don't have much pressing strength, go with the Hamilton Beach. It's easiest to press. But know that the Hamilton Beach, because it doesn't press the heck out of the fruit, makes more watery juice. The Jupiter presses more firmly on the fruit, which means that although it requires a little more muscle, you can get some pulp in the strainer, which you can throw in with the juice. Me, I like a little pulp. Additionally, the Jupiter fits under your kitchen cabinets, which the Hamilton Beach does not. Bear in mind that these juicers are heavy enough that you want to lift them and move them as little as possible. The Jupiter comes with suction cup feet, so to move it, you have to lift it just a little, but these are replaceable with non-suction feet from any hardware store. I refuse to start my day with a noisy juice machine and quite enjoy my Jupiter juice press.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Awesome!!!May 25, 2009
By A. Dhir
Couldn't be happier with this juicer, which we've owned for 3 years. Still going strong. As other reviewers have suggested, it's still quite large (and powerful) even though termed "mid-sized". It's nice to find such a sturdy, well-built, smartly engineered tool in today's sea of easily broken, poorly designed, cheap home equipment. Truly commercial grade.
13 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Good but not perfectFeb 13, 2011
By Eric Novikoff
This juicer largely delivers on the advertising claims, making it easy to juice oranges and pomagranates. Cleanup is easy, and juicing goes quickly.
However there are two things that it doesn't do as well as claimed. First, the juice is not sweeter than a reamer-type juicer produces unless you waste some of the juice. This is because the pressure squeezes the oil out of the skin of the oranges and makes the juice bitter. You can solve the problem in two ways. First, don't squeeze as hard, which means you don't get all the juice out. Or, you can skim the oil off the top of the orange juice, which means you waste some juice and the juicing doesn't go as fast. Certain oranges - valencias in particular - don't have much problem with oil and work great with this juicer. Other oranges, like blood oranges, require the skimming method because there is so much oil.
Second, it doesn't juice large fruit very well. The fruit tends to split and unjuiced parts of it slide around the sides of the press. This is particularly a problem with large pomagranates, which I cut into 8 quarters to juice instead, so they fit under the foot. Another problem is that juicing large fruit requires more force, which can cause the juicer to tip. But that's easily solved by holding it down.
I'm guessing a larger juicer (not just the larger model of this one) would solve these problems, but then it would be... larger. And this one fits under my wall cabinets on my counter. Another fix would be to have the dome that the fruit is pressed against have sharper ridges in it to break the cells of the fruit better and require less pressure to juice. I've seen this feature on other presses, but again, they were larger.
If you learn to use this machine, you should get good - but not perfect - juice out of it. And the rotary reamers it competes with are useless on pomagranates.
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