Electric juicers/Steam juicers

[Clank007]

Hi,
I am thinking of buying an electric juicer similar to the one in Colin Tweed's excellent presentation here

How much would a decent juicer cost though do you think? I think Colin said his one was 850 watts which is pretty powerful - was amazing to see it devour an apple in 2 seconds flat.
This one seems a tad pricey here, but I suppose you get what you pay for?

Are steam juicers worth the extra outlay too? I'm hoping to make a batch of raspberry wine pretty soon - would a steam juicer be be a good option for that?
Simon.

[lockwood1956]

This looks a better option...its 850 watts too

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Andrew-James-Professional-Juicer-Cleaning/dp/B003Q82Q3C/ref=sr_1_2?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1300052897&sr=1-2

Steam juicers are fab.....


dont use them on raspberries though, you will get spectacular results with raspberries, by adding small amounts as a late addition

regards
bob

[TStarr]

Only got my steam juicer last autumn, but threw everything at it - apples, damsons, quinces, rosehips, elderberries - tbh I was surprised it could do what it does, and to think there are no moving parts to break down etc, so should last a lifetime. The actual juices were amazing, and next year I hope to get enough to drink as well as to brew with. I was hoping to try blackberries and loganberries this year, not dissimilar to raspberries - why wouldn't this be a good idea - juicing sure cuts down on the sieving and draining?

[lockwood1956]

Raspberries are a fruit full of flavour and aroma, so concentrating by steaming would result in the wine being overpowered by raspberry smell/taste

make a wine No1, ferment to dry....add about 50g of raspberries for a week and rack .....you will have a hugely raspberry flavoured wine with that very distinctive aroma

less is sometimes more

regards
Bob

[lockwood1956]

Blackberries steam very well indeed....in fact 3lb blackberries and 3 lb of elderberries in the steamer ....then use the resultant juice to make a gallon batch....sugar to 1.080...yum scrum, dry red heaven


not used loganberries, so couldn't comment

[Cellar_Rat]

What is the volume and run time of a steam juicer?

[fatbloke]

What is the volume and run time of a steam juicer?

Dunno. I suspect it's about what the fruit (or veg) actually is.

Last year I managed to get about 15lb of elderberry in mine and I just kept emptying the juice catcher, until the fruit produced only a few dribbles, but then I poured some boiled water onto the "juiced" fruit and the resulting liquor was almost as strong (colour, taste, smell, etc) as the genuine article. The first part of the steaming took about an hour or so....

Didn't Martina post a guide about how long various fruits take to steam somewhere ???

regards

jtfb

[lockwood1956]

try here

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3066&highlight=steam+juicer+recipes

[David]

I found the yields initially somewhat confusing both in the pdf file from that link, and from http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/s...ead.php?t=3650, and thought I might have the cups & quarts conversions wrong - please correct me if so.

I'm taking 2-3 cups of juice from 1 quart of blackberries from those files, and using a conversion factor of approx 2.5 cups = 1 imperial pint, and a quart of blackberries weighs approx 1.6lbs (because I collect them in 5 pint tubs and know that a crammed full one holds 4lbs).

I always reckon that 1lb of blackberries when steamed will produce 1lb by weight of a juice/water mix (and I'll keep steaming until until the scales under the bucket tell me it holds precisely that amount). Then I check the % pure juice content of the extract.

My experience (from using both 3lb and 18lb capacity steam juicers) is that one quart/1.6 lbs of blackberries will produce a
juice/water mix of 1.6 lbs/1.42pints. That juice/water mix will be approx 66% pure blackberry juice/34%water.

And 66% of 1.6lbs is 1.056 imperial pints - which is approx 2.5 cups! So those (manufacturer's) tables appear to give the amount of pure juice within a larger volume of a diluted juice/water mix (rather than the total amount of liquid produced).

Anybody up for gathering some steam juicer extract info?