Essential tools for juicing

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Essential Tools for Juicing

• If youre just getting started with juicing, here
  is an overview of some of the tools you will need
  to have a successful juice diet.

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• A manual juicer will be sufficient when youre
  just trying a few juices occasionally. A
  stainless steel or plastic juicer with a
  collection container or attachment can be
  purchased for less than 15. If your kitchen has
  a sharp knife and a cutting board, you should be
  set. Some other cool gadgets that can be helpful
  are a citrus squeezer for juicing lemons and
  limes, a wheat grass extractor, which is a
  manually cranked juicer for handling wheat grass
  and other soft leafy ingredients.
• Once you get started with juicing, you will
  quickly see the need for some more heavy duty
  tools. A professional grade juice extractor is a
  great investment if you plan on juicing 3 or more
  times per week. Breville, Black Decker,
  Hamilton Beach and Jack Lalanne are all makers of
  popular juicers. With an electric juice
  extractor you will be able to get much more juice
  out of your fruits in vegetables in a fraction of
  the time. The units work by feeding the
  ingredients into a chute where the pulp and juice
  are separated by way of a sharp set of blades and
  a mesh basket. The extracted juice is pushed out
  one side, while the pulp is shot out into the
  collection container. The pulp can be composted
  or used in many nutritious recipes.

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Some other handy tools to have are a bottle brush
for cleaning the parts of your juice extractor, a
citrus peeler for peeling lemons and limes (the
peel makes juices bitter), a mango corer for
removing the pit from mangos (these also work
pretty well on peaches and plums), and a good
book of juice recipes to keep it interesting. If
you plan on making smoothies and soups part of
your juice diet, investing in a high quality
blender is a good idea as well.