Best Manual Single Auger Masticating Juicers

Man­u­al mas­ti­cat­ing juicers make up a qual­i­fied cat­e­go­ry in the juic­ing world that con­tributes to obtain­ing high-qual­i­ty juice from a range of fresh ingre­di­ents. Although these juicers are main­ly designed for extract­ing juice from wheat­grass and leafy greens, they can juice oth­er ingre­di­ents includ­ing firm car­rots and apples while it is not what they do best, they could be used suc­cess­ful­ly for many com­bi­na­tion juice recipes that com­prise of the leafy greens and firm pro­duce types.

Besides, they are pow­ered by the user’s phys­i­cal effort instead of elec­tri­cal ener­gy and use a lever or a crank to oper­ate, thus they are silent and can be used with­out dis­turb­ing your home dwellers and also less expen­sive than elec­tric juicers. Despite being man­u­al this cat­e­go­ry of juicers uses mas­ti­cat­ing tech­nol­o­gy, hence able to extract high-qual­i­ty juice that pre­serves a vast quan­ti­ty of dis­solved nutri­ents from very tricky ingredients.

Today, there are many brands of man­u­al mas­ti­cat­ing juicers in the mar­ket. If you need to pur­chase one, you might go through strug­gles to dis­tin­guish the best mod­el from the many vari­eties. Here are some of the best man­u­al mas­ti­cat­ing juicers.

The Original Healthy Juicer (Lexen GP27)

Lex­en GP27 man­u­al juicer is man­u­fac­tured by Healthy Juicer Com­pa­ny which was estab­lished in 2003 with an idea in mind to bring to life good qual­i­ty and afford­able juicer so the con­sumers on the bud­get could also lead a healthy lifestyle by juic­ing. The juicer is man­u­fac­tured in Chi­na, dis­trib­uted by USA com­pa­ny Healthy juicers, and comes with a 1‑year warranty.

Juicer design: The Healthy Juicer has mas­ti­ca­tion sin­gles auger design and thus comes with the body, crank, auger, the cham­ber that cov­ers the auger, end cap, end cap screw, and 16 oz. juic­ing con­tain­er with a strainer.

The Juicer expels the pulp from the end cap out­let in front of the device and juice from the juice out­let at the back of the device. The juicer does not have a juic­ing screen, instead, the juice col­lec­tion con­tain­er comes with a remov­able strain­er for sep­a­rat­ing the excess pulp from the juice. Although, it has a very sim­ple but very effi­cient design that han­dles a range of ingre­di­ents very well.

Dur­ing juic­ing the juicer could be attached to the kitchen counter or oth­er sur­face for sta­bil­i­ty in two ways – with a very strong suc­tion base or with the stain­less steel table clamp. You can use one of the fix­a­tion method or both depend­ing on the sur­face you need to fix it to. Both meth­ods sep­a­rate­ly and togeth­er work very well and keep the juicer very stable.

Besides, the juicer comes with a plunger and dou­bles as a wrench for fix­ing the suc­tion base mech­a­nism, how­ev­er, it is rarely need­ed as the juicer vir­tu­al­ly self-feed does not require much effort for oper­at­ing. There is anoth­er wrench includ­ed in the set and designed for fix­ing the end cap pressure.

Con­struc­tion mate­ri­als:  Its auger and parts that con­tact with food are made from BPA-Free plas­tic that is health-safe. The auger has its tip made of stain­less steel, the end cap that con­tact with the con­tact with an auger is also has a stain­less steel insert which enables it to process even the tough food ingredients.

The exte­ri­or part of the body and crank are made from very strong tough Poly­car­bon­ate (Lex­an) which is prac­ti­cal­ly inde­struc­tible. All mate­ri­als that are used for the Healthy juicer con­struc­tions are FDA approved.

Func­tion­al­i­ty: Notably, Healthy Juicer Lex­en GP27 is excel­lent at juic­ing wheat­grass and oth­er leafy greens such as chards, kales, let­tuce, and spinach and, col­lard greens, cab­bage, sprouts, and herbs. It is squeez­ing a very decent juice yield from leafy greens and wheat­grass that is com­pa­ra­ble to this elec­tric mas­ti­cat­ing juicers. It also out­puts a good juice yield when pro­cess­ing cel­ery, apple, and cit­rus fruits (very dry pulp). Juic­ing oth­er ingre­di­ents like car­rots or beets can also be done but with some strains, how­ev­er, you can use it for com­bi­na­tion juicers that include firm car­rots, or apple and leafy greens.

For bet­ter results keep the green end cap very tight for most of the ingre­di­ents and remove the white end cap for apples, but keep it for oranges.

It is also designed for mak­ing fair­ly decent nut but­ter and frozen fruit sorbets.

Using and clean­ing:  This device is very easy to assemble/disassemble, use, and clean and almost every­one can use it to juice. Fur­ther­more, the juicer does not come with a juic­ing screen that is most labo­ri­ous to clean. The plas­tic body, auger, cham­ber, and con­tain­er are easy to clean, all clean­ing process will not take more than 30 sec­onds. It is not dish­wash­er safe but it is not need­ed man­u­al clean­ings fast and simple.

Sum­ma­ry: Gen­er­al­ly, this juicer is a great device if you intend to process small vol­umes of most­ly wheat­grass, leafy greens, or com­bi­na­tion juice with occa­sion­al juic­ing of oth­er fruits and veg­eta­bles. It does deliv­er excel­lent juice yield for greens and wheat­grass, very afford­able, has a sim­ple design while remark­ably stur­dy and very easy to use and clean. The plas­tic body makes this juicer mod­el one of the light­est and small­est (7.5″ x 8.5″ x 4.25″, weighs 2 lbs) and there­fore mak­ing it suit­able when on the go.

Addi­tion­al­ly, spe­cial­ists from the Hip­pocrates Health Insti­tute rec­om­mends Healthy Juicer Lex­en GP27 as the best man­u­al wheat­grass juicer.

Healthy Juicer Lex­en GP27, via Amazon

Tribest Z‑Star Z‑710 Manual Juicer

Tribest Z‑710 Man­u­al is a juicer mod­el that has gained pop­u­lar­i­ty over time and can be clas­si­fied among the best in the juicers’ mar­ket. It is man­u­fac­tured by Tribest Juicers’ com­pa­ny in South Korea and has a 1‑year warranty.

Juicer design: The Tribest Z‑Star Z‑710 Man­u­al Juicer has a sin­gle auger design and most of the part sim­i­lar to Tribest Solostar III Juicer (with an elec­tric motor) with the only dif­fer­ence it is pow­ered man­u­al­ly. It means it can per­form all the Solostar func­tions but you need to use some man­u­al efforts for this. So the juicer comes with a plas­tic body, extras strong auger, dual-stage strain­er, plas­tic trans­par­ent cham­ber cov­er, end cap, and juic­ing container.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the juicer comes with a homog­e­niz­ing screen for food pro­cess­ing tasks, and 4 noz­zles set for extrud­ing pasta.

Con­struc­tion mate­ri­als: The Tribest Z‑Star Z‑710 body made from paint­ed alu­minum-plas­tic, juic­ing parts such as the auger and strain­er frame is made from extras strong BPA Free GE Ultem mate­ri­als that assure you longer juic­ing time for it is durable, the strain­er per­fo­rat­ed part is made of stain­less steel. The cham­ber and end cap are made of a durable BPA-plas­tic to guar­an­tees you a chem­i­cal-free juice. While the crank that does not con­tact with food made of strong polycarbonate.

Func­tion­al­i­ty:  With this mod­el, you will are sure of extract­ing juice not only from leafy greens and wheat­grass, cel­ery, cit­rus, and apples but also from both soft and hard veg­gies and fruits includ­ing fibrous gin­ger with­in min­utes. Before feed­ing the juicer, ensure that firm fruits and the veg­etable are chopped into small pieces.

Also, the juicer comes with an extra blank/ homog­e­niz­ing screen for the prepa­ra­tion of frozen desserts, nut but­ter, sor­bets and purees, and four (4) pas­ta noz­zles for extrud­ing dif­fer­ent pas­ta and noo­dles shapes.

Using and clean­ing: The Tribest Z‑Star Z‑710 Man­u­al Juicer is very easy to assem­ble and dis­as­sem­ble and use, the same as a typ­i­cal sin­gle auger machine with a motor.

While when it comes to clean­ing it is not as easy to clean as a Healthy juicer since it is equipped with a prop­er juic­ing strain­er. The man­u­fac­tur­er rec­om­mends clean­ing all juicer parts man­u­al­ly (no dish­wash­er). Use warm water and a clean­ing brush that accom­pa­nies the juicer. In case there is sticky pulp on the screen, you can put those parts in a bowl con­tain­ing warm water for 1–2 hours.

Sum­ma­ry: Tribest Z‑Star Z‑710 is a ver­sa­tile man­u­al juicer that han­dles the widest list of pro­duce for the man­u­al device the same as motor­ized Tribest machines not only leafy greens but the full range of firm and soft fruits and veg­gies. Besides, it is com­pact (13″ x 11.5″ x 5″, weighs 7.6 lbs/ 3.1 kg) and there­fore can turn to be a vital appli­ance in your kitchen if you seek­ing to buy full capac­i­ty sin­gle auger juicer but pow­ered in a man­u­al old school way.

Tribest Z‑Star Z‑710 Man­u­al Juicer, via Amazon

Handy Pantry HJ Hurricane Stainless Steel Manual Wheatgrass Juicer (BL-30)

Handy Pantry HJ Hur­ri­cane juicer is anoth­er high-qual­i­ty sin­gle auger mas­ti­cat­ing man­u­al juicer that can be ranked among the best, 100% made from stain­less steel, and will last a life­time. This juicer mod­el is man­u­fac­tured in Tai­wan and comes with a five (5) year warranty.

Juicer design: The juicer has a sim­ple but typ­i­cal sin­gle ager design and con­struct­ed with the fol­low­ing parts – juicer body, crank han­dle, auger, per­fo­rat­ed screen, end cap, and plas­tic push­er. The juicer set does not include any juic­ing or pulp con­tain­ers and will fit a small shot glass or cof­fee cup under it for juice col­lec­tion. The body has a very gen­er­ous cir­cle shape feed­ing inlet with a size of 3.4″ x 3.4″ (86 x 86 mm) in diam­e­ter which is very easy to feed.

The device does not have any suc­tion fix­ing and comes with only clamp fea­tures that keep the juicer sta­ble dur­ing juic­ing, the clamp will suite the coun­ter­tops less than 2 ¼ “ thick and a min­i­mum 1” of depth for prop­er attach­ing to it.

Con­struc­tion mate­ri­als: Handy Pantry HJ Hur­ri­cane is 100% made from stain­less steel (grade 304) includ­ing the auger, body screen, end cap, and even crank han­dle which makes the device durable, ensures it will not rust, hence ensur­ing the user enjoys a most like­ly life­time juic­ing service.

More­over, this type of mate­r­i­al is food grade and thus health-friend­ly, there­fore you will enjoy the juice with no doubt about your health. To those who mind about the appear­ance, the mod­el has a bet­ter fin­ish which can match your mod­ern kitchen.

Func­tion­al­i­ty: Handy Pantry HJ Hur­ri­cane Stain­less Steel best juice yield on wheat­grass, bar­ley grass, and oth­er leafy green ingre­di­ents includ­ing kale, spinach, pars­ley, dan­de­lion, sprouts, and oth­ers. It also han­dles per­fect­ly stringy food such as cel­ery and gin­ger. But, it can still juice oth­er food ingre­di­ents such as both tough and soft fruits and veg­eta­bles like car­rot, pears, apples, pineap­ple, and cit­rus fruits but you have to cut them into small­er bites.

The juice out­put from this juicer is of high qual­i­ty and very dry pulp. Dur­ing oper­a­tion, it is esti­mat­ed that it can juice 1 oz. of juice per minute.

Using and clean­ing: The juicer requires some efforts to crank how­ev­er an aver­age per­son can do it eas­i­ly. In gen­er­al, it is intu­itive to oper­ate the juicer for it does not require many skills.

The juicer comes with few parts and thus very easy to assem­ble and dis­as­sem­ble. You can also eas­i­ly mount this juicer on a 2.25 inch­es thick coun­ter­top for it has a rub­ber­ized clamp. Since this kitchen device is made of stain­less steel, it is will take you a very short time to clean its parts. Also, the parts of this juicer mod­el are dish­wash­er safe.

Sum­ma­ry: Among all the man­u­al juicer, this mod­el is most­ly pre­ferred for juic­ing wheat­grass and bar­ley grass. It is not only afford­able but also has a five years war­ran­ty. Fur­ther­more, it has a mod­er­ate size 12.6“x7.9“x4.7″ and rel­a­tive­ly light­weight (5.7 lbs (2.6 kg)) mod­el that will give you a superb expe­ri­ence. By pick­ing it, you are sure of improv­ing juic­ing and reduc­ing the cost that you may have incurred when using an elec­tric juicer.

Handy Pantry HJ Hur­ri­cane Juicer, via Amazon

Moongiantgo Manual Wheatgrass Juicer Extractor

Moon­giant­go is anoth­er man­u­al mas­ti­cat­ing sin­gle auger wheat­grass juicer that is man­u­fac­tured by the Moon­giant­go Com­pa­ny spe­cial­iz­ing in com­mer­cial kitchen equip­ment in India. It offers a few wheat­grass crank juicer styles.

Juicer design: The Com­pa­ny offers 4 major juicers styles — Clas­sic, Clas­sic Upgrad­ed, Detach­able Slag, and Suc­tion cap. These devices come with the fol­low­ing sim­i­lar parts – the juicer body, auger, per­fo­rat­ed screen, crank han­dle – while dif­fer­ing by the design of pulp pres­sure reg­u­la­tion and juici­er fix­a­tion to the coun­ter­top surface.

The Clas­sic and Clas­sic Upgrad­ed mod­els coms with the clamp fix­a­tion option only and have very sim­i­lar pulp reg­u­la­tion mech­a­nisms, how­ev­er, the upgrade one has more advanced and eas­i­er to use. These mod­els allow the user to adjust the pres­sure the pulp expelled from dif­fer­ent ingre­di­ents that ensure a bet­ter juicer yield for a wider vari­ety of ingre­di­ents. They also have a sim­i­lar juice out­let con­struc­tion that has an inner drill fea­ture, round feed port, and three juice holes where the juice drip­ping from. 

The detach­able Slag Out­let mod­el has iden­ti­cal to the Handy Pantry HJ Hur­ri­cane juicer design with the clamp fix­a­tion the only option and screw able end cap.

The Suc­tion Cap Base also has very sim­i­lar to the Handy Pantry HJ Hur­ri­cane juicer design how­ev­er, comes with a suc­tion base and fix­a­tion clamp options that allow the juicer use on a wider vari­ety of sur­faces. The suc­tion base design is very sim­i­lar to the Healthy juicer one.

Con­struc­tion mate­ri­als: The juicer’s main body is made from a zinc alloy but this part does not come into con­tact with the ingre­di­ents. Instead, the ingre­di­ents con­tact parts are made from food-grade stain­less steel (304) which is a food-safe material.

Func­tion­al­i­ty: As a mat­ter of fact, this is a mul­ti­pur­pose juicer and can effi­cient­ly juice not only wheat­grass and leafy greens such as cel­ery, spinach, kale, pars­ley, and oth­ers but a wide range of food prod­uct like gin­ger, pome­gran­ate, apple, orange, grapes, and firm and soft veg­etable. Hard ingre­di­ents like sug­ar­cane are not suit­able for this juicer.

Using and clean­ing: You need no spe­cial skills to run this kitchen appli­ance hence, most users can intu­itive­ly oper­ate it. Before feed­ing it with the ingre­di­ents, you are to clamp its body to one edge of your kitchen coun­ter­top. The coun­ter­top edge should not be more than 5.5 cm.  After juic­ing, the parts of this juicer can be cleaned man­u­al­ly or using a dish­wash­er. Ease of assem­bling and dis­sem­bling of parts makes it sim­ple to clean.

Uses a sin­gle auger to squeeze high yield juice from juic­ing ingre­di­ents. To ensure that the juicer’s han­dle rotates nor­mal­ly, there should be a gap between the shaft sleeve and the auger.

Sum­ma­ry: Moon­giant­go man­u­al juicer is your go-to mod­el, espe­cial­ly if you need a mul­ti­pur­pose juicer. Its ease of use, ease of clean­ing, dura­bil­i­ty, and the three juic­ing holes are some of the fea­tures that make it efficient.

Moon­giant­go Man­u­al Wheat­grass Juicer Extrac­tor, via Amazon

Final Thoughts

Par­tic­u­lar­ly, all the above man­u­al mas­ti­cat­ing juicers are very effi­cient at leafy greens and wheat­grass juic­ing and will deliv­er a very sim­i­lar yield that is approx­i­mate­ly 5 ounce of juice from 0.5 lbs. (225 g) of wheat­grass. They are all more afford­able than elec­tric sin­gle auger juicers, light, com­pact, and pro­duce high-qual­i­ty nutri­ents-packed juice. There­fore, pur­chas­ing one will excel in your juic­ing expe­ri­ence. Do you won­der how to select between them?

The Healthy Juicer (Lex­en GP27) is cheap and most afford­able, while it can han­dle a few ingre­di­ents but it will be excel­lent entry wheat­grass and leafy greens juicer option for peo­ple on a bud­get. Although, the juicer is made of plas­tic but very sta­ble and deliv­ers the same wheat­grass and leafy greens juice yield from wheat­grass as the most expen­sive stain­less steel man­u­al juicers.

Tribest Z‑Star Z‑710 Man­u­al Juicer is also made of plas­tic but it has a design absolute­ly iden­ti­cal to the elec­tric Sam­son III sin­gle auger mas­ti­ca­tion juicers and this is the most mul­ti­func­tion­al juicers and deliv­ers the excel­lent 5 ounces of juice from 0.5 lbs. of wheatgrass.

The Handy Pantry HJ Hur­ri­cane Juicer is the old­est man­u­al stain­less steel juicer that very pop­u­lar and well known among the con­sumer. It is life­time durable, han­dle well not only leafy greens and wheat­grass but also a vari­ety of oth­er ingre­di­ents, very easy to use, and comes with 5 years warranty.

While Moon­giant­go Man­u­al Wheat­grass Juicer Extrac­tor is not very well know, nev­er­the­less it offers four stain­less steel durable sin­gle auger man­u­al juicer designs, from which you can select the best that suits your require­ment, such as with adjustable pulp out­let or with suc­tion base.