I just bought a juicer and would like some advice.?

Question

What should I try? What should I stay away from? What isn't worth my time and effort to juice?

Answer 1

Orange juice is amazing with a juicer. When peeling the orange rind with a peeler, leave as much as the white pectin as you can - this produces a foamy head on the OJ.

Apple-carrot is really tasty.

Beet-carrot is tasty, but kind of earthy in flavor.

Carrot juice by itself is amazing. If you drink it regularly, your skin will glow from the carotene.

Pineapple is great.

The juicier the fruit the better. Watermelon is particularly great for juicing, and tasty. Juice with the rind and pulp. It's really refreshing with mint.

I'm not into the savory juices as much - like beet-garlic.

And grapefruit juice by itself is too strong for my taste.

Carrot fiber waste can be used for muffins or cake.

Just make sure you clean the juicer after you use it. If the pulp dries, especially on the blade, it's a pain to clean.

COliE mentioned she didn't get much juice from her machine and that's possible, depending on the machine. The Juiceman has an awesome blade and high RPM, so test your machine. If it doesn't do well with apples, don't waste them.

The cocktails sound great, by the way.

Answer 2

With my regular juicer for fruits and vegetables I love to make carrot, apple, ginger juice.... it is soooo good, sweet and the ginger adds a lovely zest to it.

If you can, you should invest in a wheatgrass juicer, there are some that are not that expensive (because they're manual)... Wheatgrass juicers are different from regular juicers because the speed at which the regular juicers work will kill the natural enzymes in the wheatgrass and it will lose its nutritional value.

Answer 3

ummm:

if you are over 21 then you can have so much fun with a juicer making cocktails and cosmopolitons and martinis and stuff.

-limes

-lemons

-oranges

-grapefruits

anything that has an inside like this:

http://k41.pbase.com/u16/dannysmythe/upl...

will work perfect!

STAY AWAY FROM APPLES! i wanted fresh apple juice once and it did not work, i got about a tablespoon or juice and it took forever just spend the 5 buck for a gallon and drink it that way! much easier!! lol :)

but thats for this kind:

http://www.citrus-express.net/citrus-jui...

but for this kind:

http://davidavery.files.wordpress.com/20...

anything will work, just use common sense and dont put like a bell pepper in there or like an almond for almost extract or sumthing haha.