It is impossible to overestimate the importance of fruits, citrus fruits, vegetables, greens as sources of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins for humans. They must be on the menu every day. Especially useful are raw fruits and vegetables and freshly squeezed juices from them.
In families with small children, the elderly, for whom the sources of vitamins have to be finely chopped, grated, it is convenient, but simply necessary, to have a juicer.
Drink or vitamin juice
Really he althy, vitamin juices can only be obtained at home. And if your family has a dacha or a garden plot, this is another weighty argument in favor of acquiring an assistant for processing crops into juices, purees, caviar and other tasty treats. Many electric representatives of this type of equipment for a high-efficiency kitchen are impressive and command respect, but for a couple of glasses of orange or apple juice a day, these units resemble a sparrow cannon. They always need a source of electricity to wash and assembletakes a lot of time, take up a lot of space. And there is also a significant disadvantage: the moving parts of universal juicers get very hot and give off heat to juices. It is known that already at a temperature of forty-five degrees, vegetables and fruits lose more than half of vitamin C and other trace elements. For preservation for the winter, this does not matter, here the products are in any case subjected to heat treatment, but for proper vitamin juice therapy this is a significant argument against electrical appliances. So, you need a good manual juicer: mechanical, auger.
Which is better to choose
To make the right choice and buy a really useful device, you need to decide on at least two questions.
- Which fruit or vegetable juice will you make?
- How often and how much?
To drink a glass of tangerine or grapefruit juice in the morning, a mechanical auger juicer is not needed. A hand press is useless and ineffective for hard vegetables such as carrots, beets. If you want to make a supply of tomato juice for the winter, the press is even dangerous for the kitchen in a sense: walls and furniture can suffer from splashes of juicy fruits. Here you just need a mechanical juicer for tomatoes, perhaps as a nozzle for a conventional auger meat grinder.
Manual Juicers
The easiest option is juicers like bowls with nozzles in the form of a cone with small or large spikes, ribs.
To get a glass of life-giving vitamin nectar, two are enoughoranges; or orange, tangerine and half a lemon; or a large grapefruit. Variations are available for different tastes. Citrus fruits are washed well, cut in half. Each half is scrolled on a cone. It is better to choose such juicers, where there are several nozzles for fruits of different sizes and a special top nozzle for easy holding when scrolling. The juice can flow down the hollow directly into the glass or through the holes in the cone into the measuring vessel of the device. You need to pay attention to the size of the holes. It depends on how much pulp will be in the juice. This simple and inexpensive thing should be in every housewife, even if she is the owner of a universal kitchen multicombine. This, in our opinion, is the most easy and convenient option for getting a glass of citrus fruit juice in the morning.
Just like a press
For larger cases, you can effectively and quickly juice an orange or pomegranate with a press juicer. The modern boom of a he althy lifestyle, one might say, forced many bars, cafes, fast food establishments, shops to have in their arsenal exactly this type of equipment for making vitamin cocktails popular among visitors. Many bartenders turn this process into a mesmerizing performance. Such a mechanical juicer will be useful in your kitchen. Home is also better to choose appliances from professional brands. They are not much more expensive, but they are more reliable, more stable, more efficient, the parts are made of high-quality non-oxidizing materials. Such a press will serve the recovery of more than one generation in your family.
There are vertical and horizontal designs, but the principle is simple and the same. One part presses on the other with a lever. The one that is pressed on still acts as a filter through which the juice passes. Regardless of the model, presses take up little space in the kitchen and are easy to clean.
Auger Juicers
A more complex design has a screw-type mechanical juicer for tomatoes and other juicy thin-skinned fruits. It works on the principle of a conventional meat grinder and often comes in the form of additional nozzles for it. But it is better to choose a direct-use device, because. in this case, conscientious manufacturers take care of the safety of nutrients and vitamins during the processing of vegetables, fruits, herbs and make all internal parts from durable food-grade plastic and polished stainless steel.
The screw-type mechanical juicer has a high efficiency when processing hard varieties of vegetables. True, in this case, more manual force is required. Summer residents are no strangers: if you have the strength to grow a good crop, then you can definitely save it for the winter with such an assistant!
