Worlds No. 1 Juice Maker Review
How many gadgets and labour-saving devices are jockeying for electrical sockets in your kitchen? Every cook will have their own special favourite, the device that beats all others, and mine is a ‘hot juice extractor’ – during the autumn months, especially.
I spotted it in Lakeland in August 2008 – just one in a box on the end of a display – and nearly walked by, but fortunately something made me stop and look more closely. I saw at once it was what I didn’t know I was looking for, spot-on for preserving our apples and grapes. It set me back £90, it’s worth its weight in golden bottles of delicious, healthy fruit juice – and it doesn’t have a plug.
My hot juice extractor is a nice stainless steel bit of kit: – a tower of three vessels: a large pan at the bottom, next up a reservoir with ‘chimney’ and take-off pipe, and a colander on top. Fill the bottom pan with water, fill the colander with prepared fruit and some sugar, fit the glass lid on, and put it on the heat. Steam rises up the chimney into the colander and gently leaches out the fruit juices, which trickle down into the reservoir. How easy is that? After about an hour, pipe this nectar off hot into clean bottles, and seal with sterilised tops. Screw-cap wine bottles are perfect – and they come at no extra cost after you’ve enjoyed the contents. Properly processed, the fruit juice will keep for as long as you want – but it doesn’t tend to hang around, even when I try to ration it.
Over three seasons it’s juiced enormous quantities of fruit for me, without need of pressing or refining; and with the apples you also get the pulp – a bonus of two products for the effort of one. There’s but one niggling improvement I’d request: a larger reservoir, big enough to take all the liquid from one full batch in the colander.
They told me they don’t stock them in Lakeland now, but you will find this item on the internet, under ‘steam juicer for fruit’. If you grow fruit, or can get it in bulk, it’s what you need to turn your glut into a bottle store.
