Archive for January, 2010

Carrot Juicer Reviews: Breville Juice Fountain Compact

January 24th, 2010

I, mainly, like orange and carrot juices, but like I said in one of my earlier posts that there are not really any juicers that are specifically designed for carrot juicing. So you have to find something that is more versatile but easier to juice carrots.

You also want to see a how easy it is to clean your juicer. Because after juicing, you don’t want to spend a whole lot of time cleaning it. In fact, this is one of the reasons why so many people opt to buy juices from grocery stores and not juice themselves because they don’t want to go through the hassle of cleaning something. It takes literally two minutes to juice (if you know what you are doing) and five minutes to clean if you have to do it by hand. So it just becomes a chore.

When you are considering a juicer on the basis of how easy it is to clean, you should keep in mind that whatever you buy it is dishwasher safe (Don’t put the motor in the dishwasher J , dishwasher safe does not mean that, it usually means pulp and juice collector, lid and strainer) for the most part. If majority of the parts can easily be detached, and you can wash them in the dishwasher like all the other dieses then it can save you a lot of time.

Pulp container is also another big factor (at least it was for me in my selection) when you are shopping for a carrot juicer. You don’t want to be emptying out your pulp container after every 20 seconds. So you want something that can hold quite a lot of pulp, giving you the flexibility to juice in one run.

For the reason listed above, I like the Breville Juice Fountain Compact. It’s easy to clean and you don’t have to empty out the pulp container that often. This juicer is also good that even though it produces more juice as compared to majority of the other juicers but it also leaves the juice smooth and basically without any pulp.

You can read more about different kind of Carrot Juicers by going to the home page.

Carrot Juicer: Waring Health Juice Extractor

January 24th, 2010

Majority of the carrot juicers are versatile and also juice other fruits and vegetables. Which is good in some aspects because then you are not paying for multiple juicers that do only on thing and one thing only. But if you are looking to specifically juice carrots then there are some things that you can look into that can help you with your shopping and juicing needs.

For example, one main thing to take into consideration would be to see how big the chute or feed tube (Mouth of the juicer) is. This allows you to feed whole carrots into the juicer instead of cutting them into pieces before feeding them into the feed tube. Obviously we all want something that is more convenient and fast but also does the job and does it right. I personally don’t want to waste time on chopping them into small pieces before juicing them because for one it will be time consuming and secondly, I will be less likely to juice often even though I love carrot juice because it will become more of hassle.

I am also not a big fan of pulp; I want my juice to be as smooth as possible. So that I am not chewing on pieces of carrots when I am drinking my fresh juice. If chewing is what I wanted to do then I can just save the hassle and eat my carrots and be done with it. But downside of juicing that way is that you will not get the most amount of juice if you are like me because most likely pulp will be still wet and contain juice. But there are some folks who like to squeeze out every drop of the juice from their carrots but then you run into the risk of having some pulp in their juices.

For these two reasons stated above, Waring Health Juice Extractor would be a good choice because for one it has a big feed tube and second juice comes out quite smooth. But keep in mind that this juicer is moderately noisy and is little big in size, so if you don’t want any of these things in your juicer then you might to look at some other juicer. It also fills up the pulp collector after about 10 carrots, but you can easily detach the collector and dump the pulp. Another thing that I like about this juicer is that it’s not very expensive; you can easily find this juicer for around 50 bucks.

You can read reviews on Carrot Juicers by clicking on the home page.

Buying a Carrot Juicer ? – Consider These Things First

January 15th, 2010

Fresh carrot juice is considered as a miracle juice as it is a gold mine of nutrients. It has a lot of vitamins and is mineral rich. It all sounds good, but obviously making a fresh glass of carrot juice takes time. One way to make it efficient is to get a carrot juicer that takes less to make carrot juice. There are multiple things that you should look into when shopping a carrot juicer.

On my list first thing would be to find a juicer which is less time consuming to clean up after juicing. There are many juicers that fit into this category, but not all. Some juicers are really easy to clean, you can just rinse them and you are done. Some are dishwasher friendly. I would go that route, where after juicing I can just rinse and put it into the dishwasher.

You should also consider your juicing needs. Are you only going to be juicing for carrots or other fruits and vegetables as well. If that’s the case, then you should look into something that is more versatile so that you can juice more ingredients not just the carrots.

Some people like pulp some don’t, I am personally not a big pulp fan. So I would rather buy something that produces more pulp and only gives me juice. One thing to keep in mind is that pulp also contains some good nutrients. If you are okay with drinking a little thicker juice, then you may consider that type of a carrot juicer.

Size also matters; Obviously if you are looking into a high power juicer then the size will be bigger as well. I am personally in favor of a high power juicer, so that I can not only juice carrots, but juice them faster instead of having to first cut them up into pieces.