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Juicers are tools for extracting the juice out of a fruit or vegetable.
A good juicer is designed to get the maximum amount of juice out of produce, with the least amount of manual labour.
It does this by crushing and / or grinding the fibres in produce to release the liquids, and then squeezing those liquids out.
Some sort of filtration is usually then required to separate the juice from the pulp. Many models of juicers incorporate such a filtering device.
Juicers can be manually operated, or electric.
One of the keys to evaluating a good juicer is — including clean-up time — how much total work does it save you?
Types of juicers
Citrus Juicer
A citrus juicer is a device designed to extract juice from citrus fruit. There are manually-powered ones, and electric ones. Before choosing an electric citrus juicer, inquire what clean-up involves, and what storage space is required.
Lime Squeezer
A lime squeezer (aka citrus press) is a squeeze mechanism that you work in one hand by pressing firmly in on two handles. You place half a lime in the squeezer end, which has drain ends in it for the juice to flow out, while holding seeds and pulp ba...
