I inherited from one of my later brother’s things a Juiceman 211. My mom has been a llliiiiiitttttle slow to getting around to these things.
It is used, but it appears to be in good shape, except for the instruction manual that had gotten wet somewhere along the way and all the pages are stuck together. No biggie as I was able to download the info of a comparable machine from their website.
But I don’t have a juice book.
How do I turn into one of those positively perky people from the infomericals by utilizing this machine to its full potential and vitalizing my pathetic exisitance through gallons of juice?
If this proves to be a Great Thing and I need to upgrade, what is a better machine and, naturally, what is the cadillac of juicers?
My data is more than ten years old - the last time I was using my juicer regularly was when my cousin and his wife were renting from me – setup and cleaning time make it much more practical to make juice for three or more people than for one. Not to mention having someone to talk to during. (You have to wash and cut up the fruit/vegetables, and clean the machine afterwards).
At the time, I read a Consumer Reports and noted that they said the best juicer was a 70-dollar Panasonic MJ 85PR. This over many 300-dollar models (which IIRC included the Juiceman).
So I bought the Panasonic and found it to be really outstanding. I last used it less than three months ago.
Performance features involved the amount of pulp that the compartment could hold before needing emptied, and the ease of cleaning that many-toothed spinning conical blade. If you don’t clean it, it wears out very quickly.
The Panasonic can hold the pulp from 4 pounds of carrots, which yields a full quart of juice. It also has an ingenius cleaning mechanism that includes something that resembles a toothbrush that squirts water, which reduces the process from ten minutes of hand scrubbing to 30 seconds of running the juicer with the toothbrush inserted into the cleaning mechanism.
I reiterate that my data is over ten years old. Check CR for more current data.
Jay Kordich’s (“The Juiceman”)'s book has many interesting recipes. He divides them into fruit juice and vegetable juice (carrots being the one thing that works with either fruits or veggies). The man knows his stuff, and believes in his product. But with all due respect, he seems a little bit nuts – he claims carrot juice cured him of cancer when he was young. (Although FWIW, a girlfriend of mine swore that carrot-ginger juice cured her of a bad cold).
IMO, the two best-tasting juice recipes of all time (both from Jay’s book):
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One three-pound bag of cored apples and a single lemon, which yields the most incredible lemonade you’ve ever had;
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A bag of peeled oranges, which yields an orange juice that makes fresh-squeezed taste bland. (My recommendation: add vodka for the screwdriver of a lifetime).
I don’t know where I got this, but equal portions of carrot and apple makes a great everyday-type juice. It got made most often when I was juicing, due to the availibility of the ingredients and the benefits of said ingredients.
And, this may be in your manual, but *feed the sacrificial fruit slowly. You’ll waste a bunch of potential juice if you don’t. The Jack LaLanne Juicer commercials gaffs their presentation by using the “other” juicer (which appears to be a perfectly capable model, if not for the feeding entrance) in a far-too-inappropriate speed-demon manner, thereby showing “[how much] less juice” it produces.
Thanks for your input!
I had been thinking about getting one for quite some time and then I sorta inherited one.
I’ll give it a run in the morning to see how it works.