[shel]

Another thread started me wondering how people drink their orange or citrus juice. When I want orange or grapefruit juice, I get fresh oranges or grapefruit, and press the juice using a hand-operated citrus press in small-serving sized batches.

Do you make fresh juice, and, if so, by what method? Apart from the citrus press, there are electric-powered reamers, and the old fashioned hand juicer where you squeeze the juice by hand on a reamer. Or do you buy fresh-squeezed juice from a market - lots of places here have juice machines and squeeze the juice fresh for sale in their own stores, using the same fresh oranges you can buy for your own needs. Then there are commercial "fresh" juices, that have been squeezed in a juice plant somewhere and pasteurized - juices like Odwalla, Naked Juice, Columbia Gorge (brands avaialble here). Other options are juices like Tropicana, that have been pasteurized, and, I suppose, are really no different that the aforementioned juice. Tropicana-type juices come in a "not from concentrate" style, and juice made from concentrate. And, of course, there are the cans of frozen concentrate that you make up at home.

So, which do you use?

shel

[KYHeirloomer]

I'd just as soon eat the orange or graefruit out of it's shell, rather than go through the bother of juicing it.

If I want juice (rare with OJ) I'll buy it fresh squeesed at the market.

[shel]

Originally Posted by KYHeirloomer

I'd just as soon eat the orange or graefruit out of it's shell, rather than go through the bother of juicing it.

If I want juice (rare with OJ) I'll buy it fresh squeesed at the market.

Hi, I'll most often eat the fruit as you do, but I also like fresh juice as well. Fresh squeezed at the market is good, too. I'll sometimes buy a pint to enjoy while shopping, or on the drive home, although, imo, store-squeezed juice is a distant second in terms of quality and flavor compared to juice pressed at home.

shel

[IronChefATL]

I prefer the juice from the manual press style juicer the most. We use alot of fresh lemon juice, in my kitchen. Currently the price of lemons here, makes it much more expensive. So we are using the fresh juice from the produce company. You can reall taste a difference though. IMHO...I would never use an other forms of juice in a restaurant where my guests are paying good money for great food.

[allie]

My budget doesn't usually allow for a lot of citrus products. They are so expensive! I usually buy the Tropicana Pure Permium Homestyle with Pulp. I don't like the from concentrate juices and have always been pretty particular about what oj I choose to drink. I buy not from concentrate lemon juice to use depending on the recipe. Of course, fresh lemons and lemon zest are always better!

I do have 2/5ths bushel of navel oranges and 2/5ths bushel of reuby red grapefruit on it's way to my house next week. I bought if for $20 from the local FFA. The citrus either comes from Florida or California depending on the weather conditions during the growing season.

[Ninja_59]

Hi Shel,

The old fashioned hand juicer, where you squeeze the juice by hand on a reamer.

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