I have a slow juicer. It was a present. It has a lot of "waste" when then clogs the workds. Cleaning is an issue. And it's just juice. It does make good juice, but after a bunch of playing and enjoying different juices, I started having potassium issues, and went back to orange or beet. Fresh squeezed orange, even from greenish juicing oranges, is just too sweet for me. Fresh juiced beet juice is too much work. My current favorite boughten daily juice is Lakewood Organic Beet juice with turmeric and ginger. I didn't choose it for any magical properties--it's just really tasty good.

I made really good varietal grape juices for Passover in that juicing phase in cool Italian bottles, but I included the pulp and the family didn't like them. They were so good, though!I also have a bunch of different reamers for different sizes and purposes of citrus. I love the stand on the counter citrus squeeezer with the spoked handle wheel, but never made enough juice to be worth obtaining one for home. If I had room for orange trees, I could see it, plus, if the oranges were too sweet, I could add a lemon or something. But if I want to make juice, now, I'm much more likely to use the Vita-mix. I get the argument for slow juicing, but I like being able to "liquify" the skins and all. Better nutrition, less waste.

I have many manual citrus juicers and one electric citrus juicer. I don’t often drink or use juices. I‘ve only used the electric when I’ve made limoncello…. that recipe only uses the peels of pounds of lemons, so I can juice them easier and quicker with the electric. :)

I also have several manual juicers I’ve accumulated over the years. I have an electric juicer (Cuisinart) I use when larger amounts are needed, such as yesterday for lemonade. Electric can be handy when you have citrus trees.

ETA - This was a stocking stuffer gift for Christmas. Just haven’t used it yet.

Link - Juicer

I figured out that 8 oz of fresh squeezed orange juice requires $0.84 of oranges (two large). Seems like a bargain.

It only takes about 30 seconds to juice those two oranges with my lever-type manual juicer. Hmm. I wonder if this has cafe potential.

That does sound good!

I just rememberd: I also have a manual lever style juicer, but I'd rather use a reamer on citrus (an I sure have a big collections of them!). The lever juicer is perfect for making Passover green kugel which gets done in quadruple batches and uses boxes of frozen spinach as a measure which I haven't been able to convert to fresh spinach. All of the veg need to be well drained, especially the spinach, and hte juicer is fab for squeezing out the water!

Oooo Robocoupe makes juicers . . . https://youtu.be/Z2qOBZSQLyM?si=nEtgwuTXsSR9Glc4

Not really best suited for oranges though.

That looks great for the cafe. But, yeah, if you have to remove the rind, maybe not great for citrus.

You should be aware that juice is a sugar bomb. There is no fiber to slow down the absorption and nutritionists warn that it is as bad for you as soda. The advice is to never drink juice--eat the fruit.

I drink apple juice occasionally....I've even gone on apple juice diets...where that's ALL I consume for weeks on end. I've never juiced anything....in other countries I've been served FRESH juice. Hhhhmmmmm......

When we had citrus trees, I used an electric citrus juicer for big batches and a glass reamer for smaller amounts - I even had a couple of different sizes for small vs. large fruits. The electric one had a larger reamer that fit over the regular size for grapefruits.

We had a juicer for carrots, apples etc. but it rarely was used, so I got rid of it. It was just an inexpensive type that was not very efficient.

When I worked in a vegetarian restaurant, they had some serious juicers that were used a lot - my fave combo was carrot/apple/carambola(starfruit).

I'm afraid I'm with Lacyvail. Don't drink the juice, eat the fruit!

But sometimes one just wants juice. Today I had to drive aimlessly a long ways to make it possible to get my car to register on the smog check computer (catch-22 anybody?). We made a stop in a cute shopping area, and got juice at a coffee store--and used the restroom, of course. I had orange. It wasn't as sweet as fresh squeezed but had a nice amount of pulp. It was very refreshing. I wouln't have enjoyed eating an orange nearly as much. I say, drink the juice instead of a milkshake or candy! And eat the whole fruit when you want something to chew.

Now that we have freshly squeezed orange juice available, we are unable to tolerate store bought orange juice, even the Trader Joe's "Fresh Squeezed" OJ that was once the pinnacle of OJ here. The formerly beloved TJOJ tastes thin, chemical, with a bitter aftertaste. We choke it down, then go into convulsions on the floor, ending on our backs with arms and legs stiffly in the air, as if a dead cow, until a family member rushes over with a tiny glass of the Holy Juice, fresh from the press. One sip of the sweet, round, mellifluous juice and recovery begins. So potent the cure, just few ounces more restores us to ruddy faced health, full of zest for life and of orange. Truly, our lives have been transformed. Next, we are going to work on apple, pear, and pomegranate juice.

We used to go to street fairs and there was always a lemonade food truck, they did crushed ice, a syrup, and juiced a huge lemon with a stainless handle juicer.

I want one of those juicers.

I just eat the fruit. Been on a Ruby Red grapefruit kick lately.

I haven't had a drink of juice in so long, I can't recall the last time. I prefer to eat fruit too.

It is really hard to get the vodka and cherries inside the orange !!!!!!!

Sherry, you'd have to pulverize the cherries, but then it's pretty easy with an injector...

Nah, I will just use juice.

I guess you could stuff an orange and a cherry and a slug of vodka in your mouth then chew like a drunk cow . . . not so elegant perhaps but think of the fiber!

That sounds efficient, but I'm not so sure that cud goes well with vodka...

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