From: tjfeue@bb1t.monsanto.com
Subject: Re: What's the Best Juicer
Organization: Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:08:50 GMT

In article <altar.724439439@sfu.ca>, altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar) 
writes:
> 
> Shaula "moo" Doyle writes:
> 
>>My mom wants a juicer for xmas, and she said she wanted to
>>check consumer report, but I figure the real experts are here.
> 
> 	 After shopping around I personally arrived at
> buying the Champion Juicer (the better one the with stainless
> steel shaft) since it came with an attachment for grain grinding.

Oh, *SURE* Ted.  Just what I'd expect from the likes of you.  ;-)

Seriously, good post, but I thought I'd throw in my $0.02. 
I haven't seen the Champion Juicer, but I got the juicer 
attachment for my Oskar food processor.  It is the centrifugal
type that finely minces the stuff that is added and then spins the
liquid out of the pulp.  The attachment was about $30 and works
great.  It's easy to take apart and clean too.  If you don't
have a food processor (or already have an Oskar), you might consider
this option.  The Oskar is a great little food processor anyway.

> I used to first grind up the apples and berries in my blender
> than then place the pulp in some cheesecloth and hand squeeze out
> the juice.  Laborious but it does work quite well.  

God, I've done that too.  Big pain in the butt!  I used a cotton
sock that was dedicated to the task (I.E. unused).  Kids, don't
try this at home.  Get a juicer.

> I thought I
> could spare myself this manual labour of hand squeezing if I had
> a juicer.  Well, the juicer works fine, but I do still have to
> hand squeeze the pulp (in cheese cloth) that comes through the
> juicer otherwise about 1/2 to 1/3 of the potential juice is
> wasted in the still somewhat moist pulp.  

I just throw the pulp back in for another spin if necessary, but
it usually isn't.

>      This dry pulp from the carrots, however, I just can't bring
> myself to waste (especially since I always use organically grown
> carrots), so I use this as vegetable mass for making burgers or
> casserole dishes.  Works quite fine but given how much pulp can
> be produced, this means a lot of burgers and casserole dishes for
> the next few days.  What pulp I can't immediately use I simply
> bagged and place in the freezer.  What this entails, however, is
> that I simply don't make a lot of carrot juice since I also have
> to use the pulp.  You might feel different about throwing away
> that good vegetable matter and fiber, but I just can't justify
> such a waste.

I use the pulp from the vegies in soups and bean dishes from the
slow cooker.  It just dissolves.  Fruit pulp goes into ice cream.
(sorry Vegans ;-).

> I don't know if there are any
> disadavantages to eating only finely ground fiber as opposed to
> larger chunks that result from chewing.  I wouldn't think so, but
> I could be wrong.

You're not, finely ground food is more easily and completely digested. 
Healthy teeth need to be used, but nobody lives on just juice anyway.

Ted Feuerbach - Scientific Systems Consultant
Disclaimer:     Monsanto didn't say this, I did!
Stupid Quote:   Money is simply alcohol in a 
                more easily transportable form.
                                           - Me
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