Orange Juice Choices

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

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