I know the subject has probably been covered before...but I'd like some first-hand experience of owning a juicer please...not one of those super dooper Nutri-Bullets 'cos the price is way out of my budget...just a common juicer.
If you have one, do you use it or is it lurking at the back of a cupboard...
And what do you put in it...I have a horror of raw Kale...after a quick look on the net which just confused me totally...Kale appears to be the veggie to go for...mixed up with apple simply sounds gross, but the American sites love it.
I'd be thinking of something for breakfast...not always hungry in the morning and I know I ought to have something.
There'll be juicers for sale in Lidls next week you see...I've never yet bought any electrical goods from Lidls that either haven't worked or been a waste of money...these are €30...450W and has a froth separator for clear juice...though I thought the whole point was to have the bits...
Our local supermarket very often has deals on bags of apples and oranges...limes and lemons and so on...
Hi Vashti, I can only draw on my experience....others may feel differently.
I used to have a juicer....you feed cut up apples, carrots, pears etc into a tube and the machine extracts the juice from the fibre....and the machine is a bit messy to clean. Sometimes I made a carrot or apple cake with the solid leftover or it ended on the compost.
Oranges or lemons are easily squeezed with an old fashioned citrus squeezer ....mines an old Tupperware ...or you can get fancy electric ones.
My father had a blender....an ordinary one...to make smoothies with milk or yogurt whizzed up with a banana or soft fruits like raspberries.
I also have a stick blender to liquidise soups.
Hopefully someone else can explain things a bit better...I must admit my juicer languished in the cupboard after the initial enthusiasm ran out
I have a juicer I was making smoothies with using soft fruit it was perfectly adequate, but my wonderful husband got me a Ninja as I'm trying to put on weight and want to use nuts ice etc. You are more than welcome to my other one that's just sitting there.
If you don't mind cleaning the juicer after use, then I would think you would love it. Personally, I wouldn't fancy sprouts, kale, broccoli, cauliflower or cabbage at all. I would prefer citrus fruit, berries, even cucumber at a push. They do contain a fair amount of sugar though, so not good for people on a diet.
In your case you could add some cream to the berries to make smoothies. Not to citrus as i think the cream might curdle. I am sure you will soon become a whizz at using your lovely new juicer. There have been some in our Lidl's not so long ago and they looked very good.
I expect you already know what would make curdle, I added that in case anyone didn't know.
We had a really good look at some of the different ones available but then the "Dieticians" dropped the bombshell that the juicers and smoothie makers destroy the whole object of eating fruit and veg...ie it breaks down the fibre and makes it ineffective. It seems they are fine if you want to make a fresh drink from raw ingredients but you can't count it as part of your five a day or consider that there is any thing healthy about it. My answer is sliced banana, mandarins in segments, slices of apples and pears, kiwi frit, strawberries....whatever is cheep, into a large jug and covered in diet lemonade. When nice and cool, fill a large tall glass half way up with the mixture and top the glass up with Pimms No 1....... Please don't tell any health professionals or dieticians about this and then they can't destroy it for me....Good for the diet too....I've lost five days already.
I love my juicer and use it twice a day, mine cost me just over 40 pounds over here (Thailand) i think a basic one in the uk is about 60 pounds. Mine is a philips.
In the morning i use a blender for my fruit smoothie, apple, mango, blueberries, strawberries etc. Lunchtime i make a green juice with kale and or spinach. I mask the taste with 2 apples, half a cucumber, some mint, chunk of pineapple and some orange juice. Mid afternoon i juice 2 large carrots with 3 oranges.
Whist you are losing some fibre by juicing you are getting natural juice. I throw in flak seeds, pumpkin seeds etc to assist with fibre intake, plus supplements.
Cleaning is not so bad, i think it takes me about 3-5 minutes to clean mine each time.
My son uses one but he will often buy fruit and cut it up and just have a fruit salad feast over a few days. He does buy the frozen mixed fruits and put them in his whizzer and drinks it nice and cold in these summer months?
If you want to drink 'the bits' you need a BLENDER, nutribullet has been recommended before, quick, small, easy clean - I hear, I've not got one. Reported probs with the seal.
Any blender will do the job, but more cleaning and putting away etc.
If you don't want bits you need a JUICER. They're big(ger), take more cleaning, although if you do it straight after use takes a couple of minutes... Leave it to dry and ... nightmare! They are not so good for soft fruit (a blender is, and so is a pressure juicer but ££££s) - banana for example just disappears into a sticky mess in centrifugal juicer in my experience.
Argos Cookworks one is a Which? 'value' best buy, £29 on offer now 05/2015, otherwise £40, and will take a regular apple whole - no cutting up or peeling.
I don't know if it's better than the Lidl one, but I've had mine over a year with no probs. For convenience you'll need a bit of worktop space, footprint 12" x 8", near a socket where you can leave it out... or it's unlikely to get used much, IMHO.
I mainly juice carrots in it - it's what I bought it for - they're cheap relative to the amount of juice and I find the juice calms acid reflux, instantly soothes a sore throat, clears mucous for a while, reduces bloating (which I get as a med side effect) and has a gentle laxative effect.
No need to top & tail (the carrots etc ..lol!) unless your gonna use the waste, but give a quick rinse to get rid of any pesticide residue.
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