I'm interested in making vegetable or fruit juice to drink.

Do I need to buy a special juicer, or can I use an ordinary blender, to just
blend the stuff up with water. I've never done this before, so I don't know
what to buy.

Thanks

In article >,
Abby > wrote:
>I'm interested in making vegetable or fruit juice to drink.
>
>Do I need to buy a special juicer, or can I use an ordinary blender, to just
>blend the stuff up with water. I've never done this before, so I don't know
>what to buy.

For vegetables, generally you need a special juicer. I think the best
all-around vegetable juicer is the Green Life juicer. It will juice
most vegetables and also wheat grass, but has trouble with soft fruits.
These juicers are expensive, but you might find a used one on eBay.
They're pretty tough so a used one will likely still be in excellent
condition.

My Mom has a Champion juicer, which is also good, but it can't juice
leafy things like the Green Life. It's best with hard veggies like
carrots and celery.

You can TRY an ordinary blender but you may not like the granular
chunks it creates. A blender can't really liquefy vegetables that
well.

-A

According to >:
>I'm interested in making vegetable or fruit juice to drink.
>
>Do I need to buy a special juicer, or can I use an ordinary blender, to just
>blend the stuff up with water. I've never done this before, so I don't know
>what to buy.

Depends on what you're after. If you use a juicer, you get juice, and a load
of gloopy high-fibre remains, which are good to compost, or personally, if
you de-seed things first, I find it's great in homemade cakes. If you use a
blender, you get 'smoothies', which are thicker, but presumably also higher
in fibre, and less wasteful all round, cos you get the whole fruit. I'm not
a big fan of juice over smoothies, but YMMV.

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Thanks for the info guys..

But can you get away with making vegetable juice in a blender, or will it
just bee too mushy?

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In article >, Abby > wrote:
>But can you get away with making vegetable juice in a blender, or will it
>just bee too mushy?

See http://www.happyjuicer.com/blenders-juicers.asp for starters.

It's a matter of personal taste, I guess. I'd say try it and see.
Dilute with water if needed. Personally I don't like the fact
that blenders won't completely cut up long fibers and may leave
unpleasant chunks.

-A

It is a bad idea. Suppose you are "juicing" celery, you will get all
sorts of long fibers in your drink. Stick to regular juicers. Carrots
will be worse. I have had a Champion for 10 years. I juice mostly
apples,beets and carrots, and sometimes celery and orange. I will
occasionally throw collard stems in there, and Concord grapes in the
fall. It is true, the Champion makes a mess with soft fruits and leaves
or wheat grass, but if you start with a carrot, it will then juice
everything without "spitting".

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> It is a bad idea. Suppose you are "juicing" celery, you will get all
> sorts of long fibers in your drink. Stick to regular juicers. Carrots >
> will be worse. I have had a Champion for 10 years. I juice mostly>
> apples,beets and carrots, and sometimes celery and orange. I will>
> occasionally throw collard stems in there, and Concord grapes in the
> fall. It is true, the Champion makes a mess with soft fruits and leaves >
> or wheat grass, but if you start with a carrot, it will then juice>
> everything without "spitting".

I dont agree, u can make good vegetable juice with a kicthen juice machine,
but it takes a great effort, there is a lot of preparation, waste and
cleaning to do. Hard work I'll say.

I bougth a magic bullet blender instead and love it, to prepare smoothies.
Usually 3 pieces of fruits go in a cup, then u can mix with cubed ice and
juice to make it as thin as u'd like and colder. I usually press som oranges
and lemons on a "lemon presser", a cheap plastic thing, which is easy and
fast, but this will make it more sour than with the juice u can buy. I use,
apples, melon, bananas, kiwi, pineapple, pears etc. it tastes great, and is
quite fast and easy to make. It comes out smooth and u get no fibers in it.
I have not experimented with carrots and beets, but maybe I will now.
Enjoy........