I'm thinking about buying a juicer. I have this fantasy of greeting each morning with a glass of freshly-squeezed carrot and orange juice. Delicious.
Am I fooling myself? Of all the kitchen gadgets I've bought, the only ones we still use are the toaster, kettle and coffee maker.
Does anyone actually use a juicer on a regular basis? I fear that it'll be a waste of time, space and money. But I really want one.
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Maybe start with a lemon squeezer and work your way up.
I'd quite like a food processor, too, but they take up so much space. I bought a mini food chopper that Delia recommended. Thought I'd use it to chop onions. It's not too bad to clean, but it turns onions into puree. It's probably very useful for making baby food, but we don't have a baby and still have our own teeth.
Why don't you get a blender? You can make smoothies, if you don't want really thick smoothies, add juice to it. Much less washing-up and can be used for cocktail making as well!
@Misscara & @Alex - We do have a hand blender, but it's not as nice as yours. It definitely doesn't do carrot juice. It just about blends soups. Might be time to invest in a better model.
Thank you for all the replies. You've pretty much confirmed what I was thinking.
I freeze the leftover carrot pulp and use it in soups. I'm sure you can use fruit pulp for jams or something. (Although I never have, and the waste did bother me as well. I do recycle my food waste though, does that even it out?)
It turns out that I'm not too lazy to wash up the juicer--it takes two minutes--but I am too lazy to chop the fruit.
I've decided to upgrade to a whole-fruit juicer.
Would anyone like the juicer Siolae gave me? It works perfectly fine, but you need to cut the fruit into pieces to fit into the feeding tube.
Whisper if you're interested.