Optimum 400 Evolve Questions & Answers

Hey Dave, for celery it will be important to cut them in smaller pieces and ideally alternate with other fruits/veggies. The strainer to be used is the one with the small holes as the other one, called blank strainer, is only to be used when making sorbet or baby food for example.

Here are some more juicing tips:

Tip #1) Do not press/shove food into the juicer

Most of us have juiced with the old-style centrifugal juicing machines. If you recall, those machines require you to forcefully press/shove food into them, and allow large items like whole apples. You are required to push hard on carrots and apples to shove them into the spinning blade where they are shredded into tiny flying pieces.

Do not use this same pushing/pressing/shoving force with the Optimum Juicer or any other slow juicer. There is no spinning blade and no dizzying shredding taking place. No pressing is required. Instead, simply let your food fall into the "chewing auger." Virtually no force is necessary, and forcing more food into the chute can cause too much vegetable mass to clog in the auger, resulting in pulp overflowing into your juice, or the juicer becoming blocked.

When juicing grasses, feed the Optimum Juicer a small amount of grass at a time, cutting the grass into short pieces approximately 3cm long. This ensures the waste can easily come out of the waste chute. You do not need to "clump" the grass into a ball. In fact, you can slowly feed small strands of grass, coriander, parsley, kale, spinach and other leafy greens without any force necessary.

A great tip for large leafy, stringy or fibrous vegetables is to remove the leaf from the stem, cut both leaves and stems into 3-5cm lengths and feed through gently, letting the auger pull the ingredients into the juicer, using the tamper only gently if required.

Tip #2) Alternate between juicier and more fibrous fruits and vegetables

Here’s a really important tip: It is best to alternate between the juicier and more fibrous fruits and vegetables. For example you can alternate between juicier ingredients like apples, carrots, cucumber and citrus fruits and the more fibrous ingredients like greens such as kale and spinach, celery and wheatgrass. We also suggest saving carrot for last, as this helps push out the last of the pulp.

Tip #3) Insert red plug correctly

Make sure to follow the manual regarding how to insert the plug :) For the 600M it needs to be inserted all the way in!

And finally, just make sure you're using the right strainer :)

If there's anything else I can help you with please let us know :)

Andrea