When compared to the same brand oflemon squeezer andlime squeezer this may seem slightly disappointing and not quite as efficient a tool. It's a little harder to squeeze as although the cup is bigger, the handles are the same length as for the lemon and lime squeezers. Also, as one reviewer noted, it does not appear to fully compress the orange when the handles are closed; it may work better with bigger oranges than I have been using, but given my experience of trying small oranges in the lemon squeezer, some juice would probably squirt out of the sides with big oranges. Certainly it does not extract every last drop, but definitely the majority. Other reviewers may well be noticing that a considerable amount of the flesh remains in the squeezed half. This does not necessarily mean that the juice is not being extracted. With other juicers such as thePhilips Citrus Press , which I also own, although the skin may be stripped relatively clean of flesh, a large amount of the flesh will end up over the juicer itself and some as "chewy bits" in the juice. The juice extracted by this tool is quite "clean" in that respect which may partly account for a lower volume. I didn't concur with those reviews stating that only half of the juice is obtained. I estimated that hand squeezing afterwards probably only gave another 10-15% extra at most on top of what was extracted by the tool. But to be sure I performed an experiment, cutting two oranges in half, juicing one half from each (to average out any differences in yield between the two fruit) with this squeezer, and one half from each with my Philips. The latter machine yielded 90ml of fairly cloudy juice with bits. This hand tool gave 60ml of clearer juice; putting the spent halves on the Philips yielded a further 20ml of cloudy juice. So it gives about two-thirds as much as the machine, but you have to take into account the different pulp content of the resultant juice. If I want to juice a large number of oranges for juice for drinking, I would get out my Philips, entailing getting it out of the back of the cupboard, finding worktop space to plonk it, unravelling cable, plugging in, squeezing, having to dispense of a large amount of wet pulp and pips which get all over your hands and dribble juice everywhere when you take the rotating squeezer part out to remove the jug, having to wash off all the remaining pulp, dry thoroughly, wrap up cable, return to the back of the cupboard. However if I want to squeeze just a half or one orange for cooking or for cocktails (where clearer juice is often desirable) I would rather use this - squeeze, dispense orange half in one piece, wipe clean, done.