While this juicer may be slower than other juicers I didn't find it to be too slow. Was easy to assemble,  when your cutting up the item you want to juice you want to cut them into smaller pieces. You place them in the top, I guess I cut mine small enough that they fed themself through it without my assistance. When it is juicing the skin or as directions say pulp separates. Its really the skin though and goes in one container. The juice goes into another. Its not that loud. Its also easy to wash and re assemble. I am very pleased with this and would recommend to anyone wanting to make there own juice.