Spec me a juicer

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Budget of £500

Im looking at this which has a 10 year warranty.

https://www.juicers.co.uk/hurom-h200-self-feeding-slow-juicer-in-black/

Apparently the bees knees. Or should I spend less and go for a mid range product.

I plan on making carrot juice and orange juice mainly with a few other bits and bobs.

Ill also make fresh tomato juice for caesar's cocktails when the occasion calls for it.

I understand some juicers can also make oat milk and nut milk I'd prefer to get one that does this which is why I haven't bought the above yet. I don't think it can.
 
Decided to go with the hurom H100 it's only £350 and can make oat and nut milk with a 10 year warranty.

Also has the option of making ice cream, smoothies and loads of other features.

Not that pricey when my vitamix cost me £350 just for a blender.
 
:confused: 500 quid and you still have to peel the oranges

You need to do that with any juicer regardless of the price.

There are 3 types of juicing technology with masticating being the best.

People buying cheap juicers aren't getting all the best stuff and it's being ruined by the process. For example even the colour of the juice is different between technologies.

Also you have additional features, ease of cleaning, greater yields, quieter and self feeding. Some can also take whole apples, etc vs having to chop them up.

The difference is there and I spent around an hour on YouTube before making my decision. I really wanted one with a milk function.
 
umm - 1lb carrots for, apparently 250ml - that's a low yield, do you have buy smaller/fresher carrots too, those horse carrots in JS can be tough.

In a diet conscious direction, I never have big portions of juice; juicing, you are reducing the fibre content and increasing the GI too;
usually peel/segment citrus fruits for breakfast, and, cut apples.
... maybe adverts for juicing machines should be banned before 9pm
 
I have a juicer, some Phillips one for £80, one of those mesh ones. Pain in the bum to clean, takes up a lot of room in the kitchen and pain in the bum to clean.

Juice taste good though but not really the healthy way to eat fruit and veg. So I’ve put it in storage and never used it again.
 
Juice is a terrible way to consume fruit and veg, I don't see the point personally, unless you're after diabetes and rotten teeth.
 
Juice is a terrible way to consume fruit and veg, I don't see the point personally, unless you're after diabetes and rotten teeth.

I can't stand celery but I'll have some in a juice.

Fresh orange juice is going to be the main use for the wife. I don't think having 1 or 2 glasses of fresh juice will give anyone diabetes or rotten teeth.

I want to add more of certain things into my diet. Which I can't do through eating.

Beetroot - well I do usually eat this pickled
Celery - never have this
Turmeric - only use powdered stuff in curries
Ginger - again curries only
Kale - never have it

I'm not going to be making apple and pear juice. The focus will be on healthy juices with small amounts of sugar.

Fresh lemon and limes for vitamin c too.

That's the thing with food and drink. Not everyone likes the same things or uses ingredients for the same things.

I'm also going to be making my own milk - oat, Almond, etc. I already buy the store bought stuff which is made for profit. Make it yourself and you can make it for taste and freshness. Also increased quality with a higher nut content.
 
fresh then ? will a masticator successfully smash the fibrous element, do what a grater might ?


can you get satisfying/homogenized results with a home machine .. is there a good link. ?

YouTube is your friend

https://youtu.be/Q0lo8gFibDg

Above is how easy it is to clean the machine I bought I know someone above complained but they did buy a cheap machine.

https://youtu.be/FLBseaGGPxE

This is an overview of the juicer I bought.

https://youtu.be/iggGxhqFI-8

That is a link to a video using a very old juicer from the same manufacturer since then the tech has improved.

https://youtu.be/z_gxMPtjeGE

Cashew milk.

I'd say when it comes to kitchen gadgets I have more than most folk and tend to buy high end.

Vitamix - can make fresh peanut butter, soup, ice cream, cocktails, etc.
Stand mixer mainly for pizza dough
Nutra ninja for smoothies and chutneys
Food processor for chopping stuff up
Nespresso for coffee
Velvetiser for hot chocolate
Indoor pizza oven imported from Italy
Outdoor wood burning pizza oven
George foreman
Phillips airfryer
Ninja foodi multi pressure cooker and air crisper - this is the best thing anyone can buy

Plus loads of other stuff countless stuff like a sous vide from anova, inverter microwave, etc.

I ran a restaurant for several years and I can cook better food than I can get elsewhere eso I don't tend to eat out a lot unless it's a social event.

I'd rather take that cash and buy better stuff for the kitchen.
 
You lose all credibility when you said George Foreman :p

I use that essentially as a panini press. For toasting sandwiches and bagels. I rarely actually cook anything on it.

Like ill do a bacon and Brie bagel and ill want the brie to melt slightly so I'll do the bacon in the oven, then make the bagel up when it's cooked and then put into the foreman.

It's not a must have I could use the oven but I feel the foreman does a better job with contact heat plates.

The ninja foodi though gets used a lot I only recently got it and I highly recommend it to everyone now. It's also got an air fryer built in so if you want one of them also then you kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
 
if you were going to do a steak with a foreman, are they not putting heat simultaneously into both sides of the meat versus any other solutions ... so better ?
didn't have a foreman & haven't used the tefal lookalike, for years - but a ham+chutney, or jam, toasted sandwich are tasty/mouth-burning.

making peanut butter in the slow juicer, looks like an interesting side benefit, benefiting from the low temperature crushing - just keep the waste.

So xanthum gum is addded to nut/grain milks to keep them homogenized.
 
if you were going to do a steak with a foreman, are they not putting heat simultaneously into both sides of the meat versus any other solutions ... so better ?
didn't have a foreman & haven't used the tefal lookalike, for years - but a ham+chutney, or jam, toasted sandwich are tasty/mouth-burning.

making peanut butter in the slow juicer, looks like an interesting side benefit, benefiting from the low temperature crushing - just keep the waste.

So xanthum gum is addded to nut/grain milks to keep them homogenized.

No to the foreman question.

1 - it doesn’t get hot enough.
2 - all juices runs off
3 - because of point No.1 the meat sort of boils in its own juices (what’s left) and you don’t get the nice char brown outer crust. By the time you get the crust the steak would have both cooked well done and also really dry due to point No.2.

It is also a PITA to clean.
 
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