Assembly of the juicer

Per request... Here's the clip, so sorry that it took such a long time for me to finally video it. Hope this is what you needed. Cheers! ^^

Orange juice... Once more

My mom passed me a bag of oranges, which I counted as 11 oranges. Okay... so I juiced them before I did 1 cup of carrots and 1 cup of celery for my parents.

This time, I did something I had not done before... I juiced the fruit from the enzyme making... wahahaha! Too bad that I juiced the lemon together, the juice from the fermented green apples and lemons turned out very sour...

Luckily I did not mix it with my enzyme that's ready for consumption. .. It tasted great ^^

Here's the thick orange juice after 1 day in fridge. I used Lock and Lock brand of container but I didn't think that means airtight... See the pulp separating from its juice? I wonder if other juicer's juice will turn out like this too...

And it still leak since u hadn't sent for repair... I didn't flush the juicer with any water in between. It just leaked... I wonder why but it wasn't leaking few months ago.... :(

And I wanted to share a pic of my first homemade green apple enzyme. Half of it had been sent to my parents home. Here's the other half... just for me! I drank a little bit this morning... and felt so drunk.... burp*!

Leak leak leak...

Okay this is odd..

I thought that the leakage only happened when flushing the juicer in between juicing but I was wrong...

I just juiced some lemons (leftover from enzyme making) without flushing the juicer...

But it still leak!!!! Oh no oh no... This is so disappointing! I'd better send it for a check or repair...

Folks, please take good care of your juicer... I had entrusted my helper with cleaning up the juicer for some time... unfortunately, she probably overlooked some details... sigh...

Leakage from juicing and Mouldy parts when the assembly was done before drying completely... yucks!

Happy New Year and here's my 6 month Review

It's been 6 months since I owned this A*Juicer, another 6 months before its warranty expired. One of the readers seek for an overall experience I had with this juicer, so, now I should sum up the good and the not so good about it.

Disclaimer: This review is solely based on the one and only piece of A*Juicer slow juicer that I owned for 6 months. It doesn't mean that all of the products would be like what I had. So, in a nutshell, this is just a humble review from my side. ("It" below refers to the A*Juicer in my house)

The Good

• It is quiet, I can juice in the morning when my kids are still sleeping
• It yields more juice than centrifugal juicer that my dad uses
• It is so easy to clean (but not true when you are only juicing 1-2 oranges, I would still use the manual way)

The Not so Good

•  It moves sometimes when juicing hard items (eg. grapes with seed)
• It didn't juice as well as centrifugal juicer when it comes to soft fruits like strawberry or kiwi. In my humble opinion, a blender probably works better for soft fruits just that the blended juice had to be consumed immediately
• It leaks whenever I flush the juicer in between juicing of different fruits... ARGHHH*

The Neutral, or rather, No Idea

• Slow juicer is well-known for the ability to keep juice fresh with its natural enzyme. It is shown on official videos that the juice doesn't get separated after setting aside for some time. Well, this is NOT TRUE for my case. I saw my carrot/ celery/ orange juice got separated into pulp and water layers after some time kept in the fridge. I'm not sure why but this is happening to my juice...
• The version that I own is 179 (with auto lock), not sure if its the lock that is not secured or for whatever reason, it's annoying to see the juicer rocks during juicing and worse, the leakage after flushing.

Overall

• My husband complained that the "real apple juice" bought from supermarket was too sweet, what juiced by ourselves tasted better
• My girl refused to drink "real orange juice" bought from  supermarket but she drank the REAL one that we juiced by oursleves
• My parents who uses centrifugal juicer often bring celery, carrots and oranges for me to juice because they have withdrawal syndrome whenever they think about cleaning their
• It will be a perfect slow juicer that is quiet, easy to clean and easy to use, only if it doesn't rock during juicing or leak during flushing
• The price of this juicer is expensive (let me finish) when it is compared to a blender or centrifugal juicer. However, this brand is selling it at a more reasonable and affordable price when compared to masticating (slow pressed) juicers from other countries

Have you heard of this? The Cabbage Juice

Recently, my husband suffered from stomach ucler. It was a bad experience... So I did some research from the web and came about a few shares on cabbage juice which helps on our digestion system.

According to wiki, Cabbage juice contains L-glutamine and gefarnate, both of which protect the mucous-membrane lining of your stomach. Cabbage juice is also fermented to create probiotics that further help your digestive health. Unfortunately, I did not know how to ferment the juice, so I'd rather not risk but settle with fresh cabbage juice...

Sadly speaking, my husband is not a fan of vegetable juice, so he wasn't even willing to try it out... arghhhh~*

Note: When doing vegetable juice, please get organic vegetables. I bought mine which was not organic from Fairprice (wanted to cook it for soup, initially), so it was soaked in salt water for about 10-15 mins before juicing. I probably drank a lot of pesticide this time so I will get organic one in future for juicing...  :(

I searched from youtube on how to slowjuice cabbage as I know it could jam the juicer easily if its not chopped up correctly. There wasn't many videos on slow-juicing cabbages. The only one was a guy who touched his hair every one and then during juicing and even jammed the juicer. Nevertheless, I had learnt not to cut the way he did it... and yup, that saved me in a way...

The whole cabbage yielded almost 2 cups of juice but also near 2 cups of foam.... I had no clue why there's sooooo much foam from slow-juicing cabbage... no idea! The cabbage was halved and soaked in salt water. First half was chopped up in squares. The remaining was chopped into rectangle blocks.



Both ways of cutting worked fine for the juicer, both needed to be pressed occasionally to ensure that the leaves went down the juicing unit. The cubes were a little too fat for the feeding hole, the rectangle blocks seemed to be fed more easily. (Just a small comparison to share with all)

Here's the clip on chopping up and slow-juicing cabbage. Before juicing the cabbage, we did carrots and celery, so please don't feel odd when you see orange pulp in the video. HohOHo~*



One thing to mention is that after rinsing the juicer with plain water to clear away the carrot juice done earlier on, leakage was observed when juicing the cabbage. (Not sure if you can spot that but I tried to zoom at it towards the end of the clip) 

The pulp was reasonably dry at the output of the juicer, some was stuck inside the juicer but no big issue when it came to cleaning up. Cheers!

Here it is, my first cabbage juice. This is good for cleansing your digestive system. If you want to try it out with your juicer, be sure to drink it the same day when it is juiced, before food, preferably empty stomach for better absorption and please, buy organic... Good luck!

Hey Vege Vege... Tried Tomatoes Carrots and Cucumbers!

After so many rounds of orange juice. I had finally juiced something which I had wanted to do so long ago, even before I got this slow juicer. I had no idea why it took me so long to do it when these ingredients could easily be found from any markets...

It's tomato - carrot - cucumber juice! Wahahaha... The first vegetable juice i did was carrot and celery. This is the second. Very cooling...

Fresh carrot juice is unbelievably sweet, must try!

Fresh tomato juice has a very rich taste... only those who loves tomatoes will be able to take it. BTW FYI, tomato is good for skin...

Cucumber juice is super refreshing and cooling. It's either I have them sliced and lined on my face or I juice them to share with everyone at home ^^

Having them together... well, only me and my girl drank it. Wahahaha! It was the colour that turned my husband off. He didn't even gave it a sip... I was glad that my girl actually tried it. She even took a second sip! hee hee!

I had a mixing bowl of washed and chopped carrots, tomatoes and cucumbers. Portion was purely agaration as I bought them in packets from supermarkets and juice them all!

Here's a clip on the juicing of these rich-A & refreshing combo. I think the juicer shook a little when carrots were threw in... Hmmz... Not sure if that's normal...  (-_-")

So many fruits...

Now, my kitchen was left with an extra watermelon, half a bunch of bananas, a small bunch of red S/L grapes and 3 apples... What's more exciting was that my mom brought a bag of oranges (I didn't even want to count how many there were) for me to juice...

When I talked about my mom and oranges, it brought back fond memories of my mum making orange juice for the family... Okay, not really fond for her but it's fond for me and my siblings since we got to drink it... Hee! Hmmz.. and did I say she make the juice manually? Yup, by halving the fruits and squeeze them using a manual orange/ lemon juicer. Actually I tried it a couple of times when I need to juice just 1 or 2 oranges for my girl... It's not too bad if its just 1 or 2.. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't lazy to do it manually but I was not satisfied with the amount of juice yielded when doing it manually. I remember that it took around 3-4 medium sized oranges to fill a big mug when my mom did it... (Great work, Mom!)

Today, before I set off for a short trip, I decided to get my helper's help to pose as my model (again) so that I could record the juicing clip for sharing. This time, we did a mixture of fruits... hmmz, yes a mixture but not really a mixture... Oh, it's getting confusing! See below...

Part 1 - Apple and Red Grapes (for my girl)
Part 2 - Oranges (just oranges, for the family)

And we did this without having to rinse/wash the juicer during the transition. WuhoO~* And yup yup yup! I finally managed to video juicing the oranges... I thought I did but I realized those were just pictures earlier on. OOps!

Ready? Let's start with the apples and grapes! (Tips on juicing apples: Not everyone read every entry of my juicing diary, so I'd echo it here... Remove the seeds when juicing apples as they were toxic.) These grapes and apples yielded a bottle and slightly more of apple-grape juice. Yummy~*

Here's on the oranges... (Tips on peeling oranges: I was probably the last to know but in case if you didn't know either, here's an effective way by using knife to 'slice' the skin, then simply peel it off. That won't hurt your nails so badly if you were to peel the skin directly using your nails... Not sure if you got what I meant but I video it anyway)

These small oranges (about 20?) yielded about 2L of juice... WuhoO~*

So in the end, nope, I did not juice the bananas... My girl loves it as it is... I could probably make banana smoothie if there's leftover... Wahhahhaa~*