Posted: 1/28/2006 6:43:24 PM EDT
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I got a juicer machine today. Just a little while ago I tried it out for the first time. I didn't have a recipe, so I was just cramming whatever produce I had in the fridge into the thing until my glass was full. I put in a couple of carrots, two stalks a celery, a handfull of lettuce, a lemon, a clove a garlic, a tomatoe, and half of an onion. Results: not good. Note to self: putting a half of an onion into the juice machine is a bad idea, for two reasons. 1) onion mist is hard on the eyes. 2) onion is damn spicy ... it pretty much ruined the drink I just slammed it down as quick as I could to avoid wasting the food and energy. Next time I will leave out the onion, garlic, and lettuice. OR at least limit the onion and garlic to a very tiny amount just for a hint of flavor. Anyone know what the recipe for V-8 is? |
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Lettuce (iceberg) is useless.... no vitamins or minerals to speak of, nor does it have fiber. It is there for texture only. I think you'll have fun experimenting with recipes. It'll just take a while and a few trips to the grocery store. ....and this interweb thing is your friend. search for juicing recipes. I do know that V-8 has a LOT of salt in it to make it palatable. |
It wasn't iceburg. It was something like "spring mix". |
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Take it back, get a VITA MIX instead, you get lots of recipes and you use the whole fruit/vegtable not just the sugar water. The vita mix spins at 30,000 rpm and liquifies everything, frozen strawberry seeds, grape seeds, etc. We make a frozen fruit shake in the morning that taste great, soups, ice cream and they are wonderful. Use the whole food item get all the emzymes, fiber and bulk that will fill you up. Plus its a breeze to clean up. Got ours at Sams club at Christmas best money spent for a kitchen toy, other than our Nutrimix grain mill. |
Ugh, if I had $500 I would. |
I have had carrot juice(you can add some celery or apple) it was pretty good (you might also try pineapples, oranges, apples, berries, tomatoes, cucumbers) I have never heard of using the "pulp" for\as anything edible |
The manual for the thing says to freeze vegetable pulps and save them for use in soups. And to save and use the fruit pulps in muffins. |
Okay, I guess those are methods to get the roughage you didn't get because you were juicing 
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Ours was a show "special" $350, check with Vita mix web site and find where a show will be. It's cheaper than buying from the site. Same thing as sold on the web just a show special discount. Save up you money that's what we did, it's worth it! Our old blender is history. What convinced us was seeing a friend of ours using a juicer and how much was wasted and how hard it was to clean up. I was traveling and missed my morning shake, the mall across the road had a smoothee store and they used the vita mix also. Talked to lady she said they used them for six months before the blades had to be replaced, Owner said they replaced a machine about two years ago and they run like crazy. I figure my home use should last me until I die! a good 40+ years away I hope. |
The soup cooking trick looks pretty cool. But I think a regular blender and the microwave could do it just as well. |
The cheapest one they had at walmart.  www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=2593953 Pure impulse buy. I'm probably going to try to take it back and get something that works better. Maybe I'll get really drunk some night and slap the vita-mix on my credit card. |
... and it's all heat from the friction between moving parts? It seems like boiling a lot of liquids that way would cause a lot of wear on the thing after a while. |
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Heat is from the speed of the blade moving in the liquid! Moves at 30,000+ rpm. You can put cold water, have have it boiling in less tahnten minutes, why you would but it does it, kind of cool to do it once, twice for you friends, third time for their friends, then it gets boring to do. the machine stays cool. |
who knows ... I notice the guy is a juicer salesman, so no surprise that he's saying "don't buy that glorified blender ... buy one of my juicers instead". |
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"the nutrients cannot pass directly into the blood stream as does pure juice from a juicer, and thus must go to the stomach and through the digestive process." What kind of anotmy do these people have, everything I eat goes to my stomach first! What they are pointing out is confirms what I said earlier, a juicer extracts the sugar water from the food, so of course you feel better faster, and sugar is sugar no matter what form it starts out as first. When the blender mixes it liquifies the food, if it is thick then we add some juice or water, so what? Doesn't take anything away from the food nutrition wise. Kind of sounds like a juicer saleman, I guess I sound like a vita mix salesman.... not |
They are probably talking about sublingual absorption www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Colon%20Health/lea13.htm |
Keep it simple!
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'Sublingual'? that happens under the tougue... so thay want you to hold the juice under you tougne? I'll pass. Beisde what happens to what you don't absorb under your tougue? Mine goes to my somacth where untill my stomach acid makes it more acidic than most acids ready to be digestid |
exactly, just liquidfy everything, pour into glass, add water back into blender and a little dish soap, place back on machine, run for ten seconds, rinse out soapy water, place on dish rack let dry. simple. ( the blades don't come off, simple) |
They also claim that you can make ice cream with the thing. Strange. It can boil water, and freeze cream. |
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NO onion and NO garlic unless you are deeply religious Leafy vegetables don't juice well fruit with fruit / veggies with veggies we buy frozen blueberries and then we freeze bananas(which does the sweetening) and we freeze our peaches and cherries. When produce is fresh in the summer months we mix any fresh fruit with the frozen to get the frozen drinks. for healthy veggie drinks we keep it plain...carrots only possibly carrots and celery if we do beets or cabbage we do it by itself and don't try to mix those stonger flavors if you get wierd on the mixtures you'll end up throwing out more than you wish to... If you do health drink mixes you can throw in the measure of that with the fruit or veggies and enjoy ... |