hand juicer
Can a Hand Juicer Work for Me?
Remy Jirek
A hand juicer is definitely not for everyone. If you want your juice fast and without pulp then you should use an electric or automatic juicer. The hand juicer takes much more work because you have to manually cut each piece of fruit and put it atop the tall pointed dome of the juicer. You then push and squeeze the juice out of your fruit. A downside to hand juicers is that you cannot work with vegetables -- if you like vegetable juice you need to get a juicing machine that can extract the juices easily.
In today's modern environment, hundreds of pieces of fruit will be placed on a tray and a huge hydraulic press will exert mind-boggling pressure it until all the juice has been unceremoniously squeezed out of the fruit. Thousands of pounds of fruit will be turned into hundred of gallons of juice in mere minute. Not like the time it took to get a glass from a hand juicer.
The first hand juicer that was ever mass-produced was probably the one that resembled a rounded pyramid surrounded by a moat. Made of glass or metal, a half of an orange could be placed on it and pressure applied to squeeze the juice into a retention area at the base. Your hands got sticky and the countertop was soon covered with an overflow of freshly squeezed juice, but it was a family tradition.
As time went on, handles were added to keep a person's hands from direct contact with the fruit being squeezed. Some times a hand juicer will be tall, similar to the ones typically used as fairs and other outside event to make a drink typically made with the juice from half a lemon, with the squeezed part thrown in, what seems like a pound of sugar, and water. These lemon shakes, as they are called, usually also contain the seeds and the tables on which they are made are quickly covered in the sticky sugar-lemon juice mixture.
Smaller Units Designed for Homes
In the 1920's, Rival developed a tabletop hand juicer to be used in homes, consisting with a small stand-up unit with a handle. A piece of fruit was usually cut in half and placed on the hand juicer. The handle made squeezing the fruit easier since you had enough leverage to push the unit down, and juice was gathered in a bottom tray. Other companies quickly followed with their own versions.
Today, there are numerous ways of extracting juice from fruits or vegetables with a hand juicer, but tougher things, such as leafy vegetables of hard fruit like apples, may be done in a lower juicer. There are some hand juicers that are operated by turning a handle to exert pressure on the product to smash the juice out of the fruit.
For some living in self-sufficient communities, the small hand juicer also has a screen-type filter to catch the seeds and pulp while the filtered juice flows into a basin reservoir. They also use a hand juicer referred to as a reamer, which can be inserted into a piece of fruit and rotated to force the juice from the fruit or vegetable.
The first hand juicer that was ever mass-produced was probably the one that resembled a rounded pyramid surrounded by a moat. Made of glass or metal, a half of an orange could be placed on it and pressure applied to squeeze the juice into a retention area at the base. Your hands got sticky and the countertop was soon covered with an overflow of freshly squeezed juice, but it was a family tradition.
As time went on, handles were added to keep a person's hands from direct contact with the fruit being squeezed. Some times a hand juicer will be tall, similar to the ones typically used as fairs and other outside event to make a drink typically made with the juice from half a lemon, with the squeezed part thrown in, what seems like a pound of sugar, and water. These lemon shakes, as they are called, usually also contain the seeds and the tables on which they are made are quickly covered in the sticky sugar-lemon juice mixture.
Smaller Units Designed for Homes
In the 1920's, Rival developed a tabletop hand juicer to be used in homes, consisting with a small stand-up unit with a handle. A piece of fruit was usually cut in half and placed on the hand juicer. The handle made squeezing the fruit easier since you had enough leverage to push the unit down, and juice was gathered in a bottom tray. Other companies quickly followed with their own versions.
Today, there are numerous ways of extracting juice from fruits or vegetables with a hand juicer, but tougher things, such as leafy vegetables of hard fruit like apples, may be done in a lower juicer. There are some hand juicers that are operated by turning a handle to exert pressure on the product to smash the juice out of the fruit.
For some living in self-sufficient communities, the small hand juicer also has a screen-type filter to catch the seeds and pulp while the filtered juice flows into a basin reservoir. They also use a hand juicer referred to as a reamer, which can be inserted into a piece of fruit and rotated to force the juice from the fruit or vegetable.
