Pages

▼

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Juicing Without A Juicer :: Juice 101 for Beginners, It's not as hard as you may think!

It can all be so intimidating. Juicers can cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I bought a second hand juicer for $50 but it's big and a pain to clean, etc, blah, blah. It also still needs some spare parts, so for now I am juicing with my blender.*

















It's not perfect, it's not ideal, but it's a way to get juice into your body. No excuses!

Today I had celery, collard greens, and a roma tomato.
Chop all and put in blender**
















Put them in the carafe, lid on, and whirl!
















I usually let it go for about 3 minutes. The longer it blends, the smaller the pieces of veg will be and the more will fall into your juice. If the pieces are too small you will have a smoothie and not juice, which is fine if you want a smoothie but not fine if you want juice. Experiment until you get it the way you like it.

A fine colander on a bowl is what I use to strain the juice from the pulp.
















Pour it right in there and let the juice fall in the bowl. Stir the pulp to make sure you have all the juice in the bowl.
















Pour the juice in a glass and save the pulp for recipes!

















Have a RAW DAY!


















Footnotes:

*I have a second hand Hamilton Beach 14 speed blender. It's pretty powerful for a regular household blender and I keep it running from sun up until sundown sometimes, so I'm happy that I can pick them up at goodwill or on ebay for about 7 bucks each, but we can talk about my blender drama some other day! :)
** celery and collard have long fibers that can twist around your blender blade and cause the motor to burn out lickety-split! cut them into one inch pieces to avoid this situation
at

3 comments:

  1. KombuchachicMarch 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM

    What a great tip! Thanks for putting this out there, ZB! By the way, I nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger Award on my latest blog post.

    Cheers,
    Heather

    ReplyDelete
  2. AlisonMarch 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM

    For now I use my blender to juice, too. I want to get a nice juicer, but it's out of my price range at the moment, so the blender is fine.

    ReplyDelete
  3. RedfrogMarch 21, 2009 at 12:23 PM

    Your juice looks good- Ive been lookin for a good juice combo.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for visiting and for commenting!
Your lovely words are appreciated.

If you are new here, please subscribe to my RSS feed so you can get automatic updates.

If you ask a question in this comment form, please subscribe to follow up comments so I can get your answer to you most promptly.

Kind words will be posted, unkind will be deleted. Simple.

Cheers!

Warning! All comments which contain URLs and are clearly just spam to generate a link back to the URL will be deleted on sight. Don't bother wasting your time!