Eh, apple! Squeeze out all the juices. Choosing a juicer

To say that this year is an apple year is to say nothing. It is a mega apple, super apple, the year when the harvest turns into a disaster.

I didn’t even know I had so many apple trees on my garden plot. Seriously! I’ve seen the harvest on two trees before. This year it turned out that not less than five apple trees. And they are strewn with apples, one tree is practically lying on the ground under the weight of the harvest. But I don’t have time for it yet: I have enough apples of earlier varieties.

What to do and how to save this huge crop?

I made some jam although no one really eats it , pickled, and even put apple cider vinegar to sour in a 20-liter bottle an experiment . And although the early apples are loose, I realized that without juice can not do.

And with what to squeeze?

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In the depths of my grandmother’s house I found an old juicer from 1987. The legendary SVSA 301. It cost 27 Dollars. Expensive enough, I think, for that time. Turned it on and it works. And quite well, not worse than many modern specimens, which I tested during my work in the “Consumer” a couple of dozen.

I was surprised that the grid has to be screwed to the body, and the kit has a special device for unscrewing it. And so, the usual centrifugal juicer – the juice pours into one glass, the cake – in the jug behind. Of course I have to cut the apples – the juice squeezer’s mouth is designed for quarters of fruit.

I haven’t had any complaints about the workings of this fighting old lady. But how hard it is to clean it! At that time they didn’t think about women’s lot

There were no dishwashers, that’s for sure

. The removable parts have a lot of nooks and crannies where the pieces of crushed apples get stuck, and it is extremely difficult to take them out.

In general, it’s a reliable machine. I looked, the network is full of ads for the sale of working juicers SVSA 301. Of course, our mothers took care of them and did not overwork them, but still 30 years is a long time, not all modern equipment can serve so long.

Let’s see what manufacturers offer in 2019, and what modern juicers can please their owners.

What juicers are like?

Very briefly let me remind you of the theory.

Juicers can be centrifugal or auger.

Juice is squeezed with the centrifugal ones at enormous speed

ten thousand or more revolutions per minute

, they are fast and productive, in auger speed is several orders of magnitude lower

50-150 rpm

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The centrifugal ones have a grid and a mesh, apple is being rubbed like on a high-speed grater, tiny particles are pressed to the grid of the drum, the juice flows through the grid into a trough from which it goes into a jug.

Screw-type – a piece of apple passes, as in a meat grinder, between the grid and a ceramic screw, the juice is squeezed out of it together with the finest pieces of pulp and flows into the glass.

Centrifugal juicers juice at the bottom, pulp at the top, with auger juicers it’s more uniform.

Well, auger juicers are often called “cold” juicers, because the fruit is not heated, and in the centrifugal at such high speed heating is inevitable.

Apple Juicers – which one to choose??

• At first glance, when struggling with the harvest, if you do not want to sit entire September, peeling apples, the most convenient centrifugal juicers with a wide inlet opening. Seven and a half centimeters might not be enough, eight and a half is better, and not all apples will fit.

But there is one disadvantage: you can put down a whole apple, if you are sure that it is not wormy and there are no unhealthy parts.

• Unfortunately, most of the apples will still have to be sliced. Therefore, juicers with an opening for halves or quarters of apples also will not stand idle. Such models are also often more compact and can be used not only in the fall, but all year round.
• It is believed that the screw juicers are not designed for a large amount of work. It used to be. But this year’s models, and I saw that in my testing, can be useful for storing fruit juice.

When selecting juicers, pay attention to the operating time without interruption. You can roughly estimate how many apples you will turn into juice in one cycle.

It is not even the type of juicer that matters, but its performance and your needs: If you need the juicer only for processing apples in the apple year – that’s one way, if you want it to be used throughout the year – another.

Five juicers I recommend to my friends

1. Aksion juicers

If you have a lot of apple trees, and you’re busy making juice and rolling jars of vegetable salads, then pay attention to juicers Aksion Izhevsk production.

These, as I understand, are the granddaughters of my dacha assistant. They really know how to fight a harvest. Some models come with discs for slicing vegetables, which makes them multifunctional devices.

The promised capacity is 30 liters of juice per hour.

The specifications do not even specify the duration of one cycle. But you have to turn off the juicer to clear the pulp holes in the lid of the body.

High performance, affordable price.

Apples should be cut into halves or quarters.

2. Juicers, or as the manufacturer calls them, Bork juicers

With an inlet diameter of 8,4 cm.

That’s a whole other story, of course. Bork juicer you will not hide in a box after a period of juicing, on the contrary, you will put in the kitchen in the most prominent place, and you will even show your guests, to boast.

In this case, Bork juicers actually squeeze juice well, and not only from apples.

High performance, smart ergonomics and stylish design.

Not everyone can afford.

3. Moulinex XXL JU655H centrifugal juicer

8.5 cm diameter opening means no time is wasted chopping apples.

Users note the great performance of the juicer and the ability to work without interruption for 15-20 minutes.

In the instruction, by the way, there are more stringent restrictions, it is written that when grinding hard fruits should be limited to 3 kg of food in one cycle, and turn off the device after a couple of minutes.

But apples can’t be called hard, and owners of the Moulinex XXL JU655H claim it runs for 15 to 20 minutes easily, and is very helpful with large amounts of food.

But opinions differ as to the quality of spinning: someone is happy with it, someone complains that the cake is wet. Some even squeeze the juice out of the pressed cake.

Much depends, of course, on the quality of the apples. Tender fruit yield little juice, so the cake will be very wet, for these apples is better to use other devices.

Wide mouth, 2 speeds.

Not always a dry cake.

4. Zigmund & Shtain ESJ 770 auger juicer

Can work without a break for 30 minutes.

It turns 1 kg of apples into juice in 2 minutes and 10 seconds. So you can juice 14 kilos of apples in half an hour. Agree, not bad at all!

In addition, screw devices are suitable for processing soft apples – they turn the pulp with juice into a delicate puree, which can also be canned for the winter.

Read more about this model here

5. Screw juicer Mirandi J-100

It’s an auger juicer with a wide neck, like some centrifugal models – 80mm, so you don’t have to slice small apples, which saves time.

1 cycle of continuous work – 20 minutes allows you to process a large volume of apples at once.

For each type of food has been selected a different speed of the screw, in any case, on the touch panel you can select the appropriate mode. Well, it is clear that this device will not be boring on the mezzanine all year long, you can make juice from any favorite fruits and vegetables.

Wide mouth diameter, multiple modes of operation.

It costs quite a bit.

How can dryers help?

Using an electric dryer can be not only to stockpile dried fruits. Dryers allow you to make trendy and favorite younger generation of apple chips, marmalade, marshmallow several types – thin, but from crushed apples that’s just wet cake from soft apples will go in business , and with the addition of egg white – a real Belevsky. My sister makes us happy every year with this delicious dessert.

Two electric dryers we tested this summer – look, choose:

Scarlett SC-FD421012

Or

Zigmund & Shtain ZFD-400

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The apple year is over, and next summer there will be no such harvest, the apple trees will rest. But harvested juice, puree, jam can be enough for two long winters. So, do not be lazy. Especially since modern juicers take care of most of the work!