Extracting compounds from various samples using traditional methods involves some give and take. You can choose to use Soxhlet, which is relatively inexpensive for equipment but uses a tremendous amount of solvent and takes hours to run. 

Consider Top Plate Material, Sample, Size, and Viscosity

Many tissue homogenizers cause bottlenecks in the workflow of a biology laboratory. This is largely due to the common one-tip design, which breaks up samples either by mechanical shearing or sonication.