SQUEEZE master Cheese Tincture Herb Fruit Wine Manual Press -0.8Gallon/ 3 Litre-Power Ball Handle-Stainless Steel & Iron for Juice,Cider,Wine,Olive Oil

I bought this fruit press to help me make soy milk. Because I use cotton bags instead of nylon (to avoid plastic in my food), filtering out the soybean remnants was messy and time consuming. Now I just pour the cooked, unfiltered milk into my bag placed in the press, close the bag securely, and twist the top of the press. So easy. I do have to hand wring the final bits to get my okara dry, but the press saves so much time and effort.The press was easy to assemble, is very sturdy works well, and is fairly easy to clean. I’m so glad I bought this press.

This press is great, it’s a total game changer for my herbal oils and tinctures. I’ve recovered 1/3 more liquid by using this press, I consider that a win. The press itself is quite sturdy. Other commenters have mentioned that it isn’t made of stainless, but that’s not true (at least not for the product I received). A magnet will readily stick to every single part of this press from the frame, to the pressing disk, to the cylinder containers and strainers. The pressing disk is too heavy to be aluminum anyways. My father is also a welder and he confirmed that everything is stainless. As for commenters who mentioned grease in the disk fittings - the grease is there on purpose so that the disk doesn’t rotate along with the press while you’re turning the lever. If you simply pre-filter your liquids using a cheese cloth or nut milk bag to remove as much liquid as possible, then there should be no reason (in most cases) that the disk should be submerged in liquid, therefor any grease contained above the disk cannot come into contact with your products. A c-clamp is helpful to keep it attached to a table, but I just put the press on the ground and use two feet on either side of it to keep it in place while turning the lever. The press is really easy to clean and the filtration bag that comes with it is great & reusable. It’s a slow process, since you have to turn the lever and wait for the liquid to come out, and sometimes you have to tip the press to get it all, but it works. This is a great press for the price and after only a couple uses will pay for itself in the material I’m able to recover. I’m so happy!

For the 0.8gal size (and I am pretty sure the smaller one), the bottom-press-plate that is hold onto the threaded ram by 2 set screws falls off. The set screws are not long enough. We returned and got the larger one which has a different design of that plate.The larger one has worked great so far! We have never gotten our pulp as dry as we did with this press. We will love this thing.

I use this to squeeze soybean when making soy milk. Very nice, because not easy if you just use your hands.

Maaaan why am I struggling to put this thing together??? The poles just sink into the holes!. This build is terrible man. I’ve contracted laboratories and book shelves but this damn item is super complicated to put together as nuts and washers don’t do any damn thing to tighten rods effectively. The Instructions lead you no freaking where ( just pictures) and I’m literally sitting here looking at this thing I just got, it’s still unassembled and I’m in disbelief this is actually complicated to put together. Its like I’m missing screws or something cause no way these rods will stay in the hole without another nut being under the base to hold rod in place. its like it doesn’t come complete or somethingJust got it today and can’t put it together?? Something’s off here. Specially for something so simple! Not a good experience already before even using and I’m already frustrated with item to the point I want nothing g to do with it. I want a wine press that’s pre-assembled and actually EASY for customer to do. This is frustration in a box. I want to return this damn headache as soon as it came. I hate products that make things more complicated than it has to be. 5 hrs later this item still can’t be put together sensibly. Terrible experience already man, get me something smoother and easier please, something with ACTUAL helpful and clear INSTRUCTIONS AND with parts that makes sense!

It worked perfectly for berries. Haven't tried with apples yet. Well made and easy to assemble. Worked perfect.

Not too useful for small batch fruit as I was hoping, but a durable product

This is a wonderful small handy easy to assembly press. It was great to use when squeezing out the liquid from my eggplants to get them ready for jarring. This press is going to be used to make small batches of wine, tomato sauce and pickling eggplant and oven dry tomatoes too. Great price!