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. Raw fruits and vegetables and freshly squeezed juices from them are especially useful.
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 healthy, vitamin juices can only be obtained at home. And if your family has a summer house or a garden plot, this is another weighty argument in favor of acquiring an assistant to process the crop into juices, mashed potatoes, caviar and other tasty goodies. Many electrical representatives of this type of kitchen equipment with high efficiency are impressive and respectful, but for a couple of glasses of orange or apple juice per day, these units resemble a gun for sparrows. They always need a source of electricity, it takes a lot of time to wash and assemble, take up a lot of space. And there is a significant minus: the moving parts of universal juicers are very hot and give heat to the juices. It is known that even at a temperature of forty-five degrees, vegetables and fruits lose more than half of vitamin C and other trace elements. It does not matter for preservation for the winter, here the products are in any case subjected to heat treatment, but for the proper vitamin juice therapy this is an essential argument against electrical appliances. So, you need a good manual juicer: mechanical, screw.
Which is better to choose
To make the right choice and buy a really useful device, you need to decide on at least two issues.
- What fruit or vegetable juices will you make?
- How often and to what extent?
To drink a glass of tangerine or grapefruit juice in the morning, a mechanical screw 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 in some ways dangerous for the kitchen: walls and furniture can suffer from splashes of juicy fruits. Here you just need a mechanical juice squeezer for tomatoes, possibly as a nozzle for a conventional auger meat grinder.
Manual Juicers
The simplest option is a juicer as a bowl with nozzles in the form of a cone with small or large spikes, ribs.
To get a glass of life-giving vitamin nectar, two oranges are enough; or orange, mandarin and half a lemon; or large grapefruit. Variations for different tastes are possible. Citrus fruits are washed well, cut in half. Each half scroll 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 convenient holding them when scrolling. Juice can drain through a hollow immediately into a glass or through holes in a cone into the measuring vessel of the device. It is necessary to pay attention to the size of the holes. Depends on how much pulp will be in the juice. This is a simple and inexpensive thing that every housewife should have, even if she is the owner of a universal kitchen multi-harvester. This, in our opinion, is the most easy and convenient option for getting a glass of morning fresh citrus fruits.
Just like a press
For larger cases, you can efficiently and quickly obtain juice from an orange or pomegranate using a press juicer. The modern boom of a healthy lifestyle, it can be said, has forced many bars, cafes, fast food enterprises, shops to have in their arsenal of this type of equipment for making vitamin cocktails popular among visitors. Many bartenders turn this process into mesmerizing action. Such a mechanical juicer will be useful in your kitchen. Home is also better to choose devices from professional brands. They are not much more expensive, but they are more reliable, more stable, more efficient, the details are made of high-quality non-oxidizing materials. Such a press will serve the healing 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 performs the function of a filter through which the juice passes. Regardless of the model, presses take up little space in the kitchen; they are easy to clean.
Screw Juicers
A more complex design is a screw-type mechanical juicer for tomatoes and other juicy thin-bark fruits. It works on the principle of a conventional meat grinder and often comes in the form of additional nozzles to it. But it is better to choose a direct-use device, because in this case, bona fide manufacturers take care of the safety of nutrients and vitamins during the processing of vegetables, fruits, herbs and perform all internal parts from durable food-grade plastic and polished stainless steel.
The mechanical
screw juicer has a high efficiency in the processing of hard vegetables. True, in this case more manual power will be required. Summer residents can’t get used to it: if you had the strength to grow a good harvest, then you can certainly save it for the winter with such an assistant!