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macmac

Joined: 21 Oct 2011
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Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 5:53 pm Post subject: Steam Juicing anyone

Does anyone use a steam juicer on here? I bought one recently to extract juice for making jelly and I am so pleased with it. No more jelly bags for me - its so quick and efficient and I am getting so much more juice that I now have more jelly than I know what to do with (not true - the family are relieving me of it as fast as I can make it).
Would love to hear of any recipes etc and what you think of this way of producing juice if anyone has one. Most of the stuff I have found so far has been either from US or Europe where Steam Juicers are really popular.

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 5:56 pm Post subject:
I have one and totally agree, far more efficient way, the Raspberry wine I made a couple of years ago with extracted juice has to be the best I've ever made I've got an awful lot of apples to process this weekend, then I'll be making apple and blackcurrant jelly, I've already extracted the blackcurrants and frozen the juice

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 6:04 pm Post subject:
Hello Macmac. Welcome to DS. How much are these steam juicers then?

arvo

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Posts: 3321
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 7:45 pm Post subject:
Chez bought ours on ebay for £24 pounds. Its ace.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
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Location: Devon

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 7:47 pm Post subject:
oooh. Have you got one? What do you do with it? nothing to do with poultry I hope

arvo

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Posts: 3321
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 8:01 pm Post subject:
mmm chickensoup. No fruit. Is good. Takes a while, but works very well.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8600
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 9:53 pm Post subject:

arvo wrote:

Chez bought ours on ebay for £24 pounds. Its ace.

Is is steel? They all used to be aluminium.

yummersetter

Joined: 26 Jan 2008
Posts: 3241
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 10:34 pm Post subject:

Yep we use one, a Japy Fruits - part of my huge collection of gizmos and gadgets for dealing with fruit. Like the vast majority, it was bought on ballooning trips to Alsace Lorraine and as the rest, has instructions in french - so I translate bits of the manual as the need arises.

Makes very 'cooked' tasting apple juice but is good for berries, I'll be extracting the rest of the huckleberry juice this weekend ready to make jelly.

Gai

Joined: 31 Dec 2004
Posts: 408
Location: Ireland

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 10:50 pm Post subject:
Saw these in a French supermarket 3 years ago for €20 and am still kicking myself that I didn't buy one. I searched on subsequent visits but haven't seen them again.

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 11:16 pm Post subject:

I bought mine from here https://www.berndes-shop.com/product/aktionen-magazin-2011-entsafter-mit-glasdeckel-25-cm-030241/ about 3 or 4 years after seeing a post mentioning it - they did used to have the site in English as well, maybe they do and I just can't find it

I bought a fab big deep casserole pot at the same time to make the postage worthwhile and I have to say they were 2 of the best purchases I've ever made

Kenworth

Joined: 04 Apr 2011
Posts: 855
Location: Michigan

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 11 4:02 am Post subject:
I love mine. It's stainless steel. https://www.norpro.com/store/products/krona-ss-steamerjuicer I love the fact that I didn't get purple fingers this year from Condord grapes

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 11 8:46 am Post subject:
They are quite expensive if you buy them new. I would have, though, if I hadn't scored on ebay. Ours is Aluminimum and clearly quite old. This was recommended to me and seemed eyewateringly expensive. But I think they are good quality. A google-shop thing brings up a 'budget' one at £65.

Kenworth

Joined: 04 Apr 2011
Posts: 855
Location: Michigan

Posted: Sun Oct 23, 11 2:43 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

They are quite expensive if you buy them new. I would have, though, if I hadn't scored on ebay. Ours is Aluminimum and clearly quite old.

This was recommended to me and seemed eyewateringly expensive. But I think they are good quality. A google-shop thing brings up a 'budget' one at £65.

Putting the 65bps to usd is about what I paid.

I justify it because I don't have any hobbies at this time other than cooking/bottling.

fatbloke

Joined: 22 Mar 2009
Posts: 121
Location: Sussex Coast!

Posted: Sun Nov 06, 11 11:27 am Post subject:

The thing to remember about steam juicers, is that they're only really good for red/black fruit. If you try and use them for green/white fruit, you will get plenty of juice but it will have a "cooked" taste to it, not the fresh (usually slightly acidic) taste that you probably prefer.

They're brilliant for elderberries, as you don't need to worry about getting rid of 100% of the stalks (just "combing" the berries off the head is good enough) and the resulting juice is good for jelly, wine, etc etc.

When it comes to apples, pears, kiwi fruit, etc, it's best to freeze the fruit whole for a couple of days, then defrost in a straining bag over a bucket, then press the pulp at the end - gets you a clearer, better quality juice than milling and pressing alone.

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