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[iona]

Does anyone have a juicer? I get loads of apples around now that I mainly fail to use. I've seen one for £50 which looks tempting but I've no real idea what I'm looking for aside from easy to clean & gets a reasonable amount of juice out.

Is this free apples from your own / neighbours trees or something? If you want to juice them, depending on quantity it might be worth seeing if you have anywhere nearby that'll do it for you. There's a few places near me and the type of presses they use will probably get a lot more juice out than a 50 quid juicer.

 

[two sheds]

Oo interesting, will take a look. They're my apples and really going to waste. The blackbirds (I hope) come along and take a few bites out of them but there's still loads left over.

 

[iona]

We'd come and pick them for you if they were unwanted and you were closer to Brighton!

 

[hegley]

Sweet potatoes are lovely raw. And cauliflower. And Brussels sprouts.

Difficult to find a peppery radish anymore - not enough acid rain apparently.

 

[gentlegreen]

And Brussels sprouts.

I bought my first sprouts today since last winter - I may have to try them with a dressing as a salad - I'm massively into kale at the moment for my cooked greens ...
Otherwise I would have to chop the sprouts up as I'm tending to cook from scratch daily and can only spare 10 to 15 mins...

 

[Pickman's model]

I bought my first sprouts today - I may have to try them with a dressing as a salad - I'm massively into kale at the moment for my cooked greens ...
Otherwise I would have to chop the sprouts up as I'm tending to cook from scratch daily and can only spare 10 to 15 mins...

brussels sprouts are delicious with tzatziki

 

[gentlegreen]

brussels sprouts are delicious with tzatziki

I will experiment with hummus and balsamic and see where it takes me

 

[WouldBe]

My advice is to use mostly carrots - sweet fruit juice is generally a bad idea...

Carrots don't grow on apple trees.

 

[two sheds]

You're going to tell me they grow on carrot trees aren't you

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I would dread the cleaning though, even if used once a week. I'm sure a dishwasher would help but I don't have one of them either.

Do what I did once - forget to clean it during summer and its like a homing beacon for any ants in the vicinity. There were quite a few ants inside it having a party. I don't remember it smelling so maybe they ate all the stuff that the bacteria would otherwise digest.

Eventually gave it away (cleaned it first obvs) as i hardly used it.

 

[iona]

That's the other good thing about the big heavy duty juicers, instead of washing up you just blast them with a jetwasher. While wearing an ankle-length rubber apron that makes you look like a serial killer

 

[WouldBe]

You're going to tell me they grow on carrot trees aren't you

Yes.

 

[WouldBe]

I don't drink juice at all these days - except tomato.
The trouble with juicers is you throw away the fibre which is one of the best parts.
I would feel wasteful throwing pulp in the compost ...

Couldn't you blitz them in a food processor and dilute the resulting 'soup'?

 

[gentlegreen]

Couldn't you blitz them in a food processor and dilute the resulting 'soup'?

well yes - cold soup / kale smoothie kind of thing...
In the future I may yet wean myself off toast and coffee every morning.

 

[two sheds]

I've started on the porridge of a morning and remembering to soak some oats the day before

 

[gentlegreen]

I've started on the porridge of a morning and remembering to soak some oats the day before

My trouble is I can't have oats in the house or I'll eat the lot.
I seem to be able to make my 500kcals of toast and PNB work.
Maybe I'll try wheat berries again - but last time I tried them I got a horrendous hypo a couple of hours later - but then my insulin response was temporarily off back then ...

 

[WouldBe]

well yes - cold soup / kale smoothie kind of thing...
In the future I may yet wean myself off toast and coffee every morning.

Kale doesn't grow on apple trees either.

 

[RubyToogood]

I had a juicer which I never used because it was an absolute bastard to clean. I have eating apples and store some in plastic bags in the freezer drawer where they keep pretty well, but mostly I chop, stew and freeze. Because they're eaters they don't need added sugar. They don't turn into a puree like cookers but that's fine.

I freeze in smallish quantities and defrost them to have with muesli or porridge (or make crumble).

 

[RubyToogood]

As you probably know, most traditional apple varieties were bred to keep in storage for some time but the results can be variable.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Fresh porcini mushoom salad with a few shavings of parmesan, drizzle of good olive oil and seasoning is majestic.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Fresh porcini mushoom salad with a few shavings of parmesan, drizzle of good olive oil and seasoning is majestic.

^^^Ponce!