What's your favorite kind of juice?

[Dan G]

I've been making my own juice lately, and am quite enjoying a 40/40/20 blend of carrot (sweet nantes), apple (granny smith), and beet (red seems better than golden, both for flavor and color) with a bit of ginger thrown into the mix. Both tart and sweet at the same time, it is especially good over ice. It's a bit expensive (about $4/litre with good quality local organic ingredients) but tasty.

What's your preference, either home made or store bought?

[Gary Sisco]

Corn sqeezings.

[clinthopson]

Grain mash slowly smoked over peat.

[Scott Dolan]

OJ. And with enough pulp in it so that you kind hafta to chew on it a little before you swallow.

That's just the old Florida boy in me.

Oh, and I'm a huge low sodium V8 fan as well.

[Brian Olewnick]

I love juices in general but you'll most often find grapefruit juice or apple cider in our fridge.

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

Oh, and I'm a huge low sodium V8 fan as well.

Yeah, me too. It took a while to get used to the taste after years of that heavily salty regular V8, but now I don't think I could drink the original.

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by Dan G

I've been making my own juice lately, and am quite enjoying a 40/40/20 blend of carrot (sweet nantes), apple (granny smith), and beet (red seems better than golden, both for flavor and color) with a bit of ginger thrown into the mix. Both tart and sweet at the same time, it is especially good over ice. It's a bit expensive (about $4/litre with good quality local organic ingredients) but tasty.

What's your preference, either home made or store bought?

This sounds serious Dan. You must have a monster juicer.
An Omega?

[Scott Dolan]

Originally Posted by Dan G

Yeah, me too. It took a while to get used to the taste after years of that heavily salty regular V8, but now I don't think I could drink the original.

Agreed. I even used to drink the spicy one. As far as sodium was concerned, it put the regular to shame.

[Robert de St. Loup]

The clear.

[Jon Abbey]

does homemade lemonade count? my wife and I drink this constantly.

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by rollhead

This sounds serious Dan. You must have a monster juicer.
An Omega?

It's actually a cheap Breville brand, that extracts the juice by centrifugal force unlike the really good ones that crush the fruit/vegetables first. It's pretty quick - maybe 10 minutes to do 2 litres (which lasts me about 4 days).

I'm curious about how to make tomato juice. This thing doesn't do that very well; it pretty much just extracts the water and doesn't get much of the really flavorful red stuff out. Anyone know the trick? Do you have to boil them and press them through cheesecloth or a sieve? I know people who have done that, but its a lot more work than I want to do.

[Chris D]

Originally Posted by Dan G

Do you have to boil them and press them through cheesecloth or a sieve?

Yes. We do this in big batches during the tomato harvest and can the juice by the quart. (This year's, we tried a spicier recipe that makes for some killer Bloody Marys.)

[clinthopson]

Tomato juice gave Col. Potter gas.

[Gentle Giant]

Best juices I ever had were in Ecuador, where we honeymooned. They have fruit there you can't find here, even what they call a passion fruit there (maracuya) is different from what you see in the States. There was also tree tomato (tamarillo) juice, and naranjilla (a cross between an orange and a tomato) juice.

At home, I'm not a big juice guy at all; usually tomato or apple cider is all I consume.

[GoodSpeak]

Old School here: Orange juice.

[groover]

I think I've answered this question on the Beer thread.

I usually consume my fruits and veggies whole, though I will occasionally drink orange, grapefruit, banana, mango, apple, cherry, or blueberry.

Wyman's Wild Blueberry is rather tasty.

[jesus marion joseph]

I once went nuts with our Champion juicer and guzzled two 16 glasses of apple/pear juice, and almost instantaneously had a massive bout of the Hershey squirts. That was my favorite juice.

[groover]

Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

I once went nuts with our Champion juicer and guzzled two 16 glasses of apple/pear juice, and almost instantaneously had a massive bout of the Hershey squirts. That was my favorite juice.

Nothing like a good colon cleansing now and then!

[GoodSpeak]

Um.



Thanks for sharing.

[jesus marion joseph]

Wanna see the pics?

[clinthopson]

You haven't lived until you've had a papaya/pineapple smoothie on the beach.

[GoodSpeak]

Originally Posted by jesus marion joseph

Wanna see the pics?

[Brian Olewnick]

I'll try any exotic fruit juice and almost always like it. A favorite was green (sour) mango juice in the Philippines.

I love blueberries and have had some like the ones groover posted. Dee-lish.

Tangerine-orange, yep.

[cookie]

I love grapefruit juice!

I also enjoy blueberry juice cocktails. I usually find them in the organic section (I think the brand is Santa Cruz). I didn't know there was a line of Wyman blueberry juice. I'm hoping I can find it. Wyman's is a wild blueberry company located in the economically depressed area of Washington County, Way DownEast Maine. Please continue supporting their product. They try to be an honorable company and for many, it's the best work around.

I love wild blueberries. I have fond memories of berry picking with my mother and grandmothers (we picked in small isolated patches; out on the barrens they rake 'em). I didn't know there was any kind of muffin *besides* blueberry until I was in high-school!

I always try to go to Maine during blueberry season. I have poached them from Acadia National Park. I've picked them on roadsides (I know exactly what they look like and what terrain they like so I can see 'em even zooming by at 55 MPH). I've visited some of the old areas and found some new. And even if I don't have a chance to pick, you can buy 'em from roadside stands all up and down Route 1 from at least Wiscasset up the coast to the Canadian border.

I even make my own blueberry juice which I like to cut with club soda.

Hmm, I have blueberries in the freezer and I'm actually going to cook a meal tonight. Perhaps I'll serve blueberry muffins with the corn chowder---or maybe a buckle.

Keep buying Wyman's. You're helping a bunch of poor people have any hope of finding a gig.

[Scott Dolan]

I sometimes get a blueberry/pomegranite juice. Can't recall the company, but it's damn tasty. And 100% juice.

[cookie]

The problem with juice is that it's highly caloric so you have to be careful not to overdo.

[Dan G]

Originally Posted by Scott Dolan

I sometimes get a blueberry/pomegranite juice. Can't recall the company, but it's damn tasty. And 100% juice.

Is is POM? Haven't tried their 100% juices, but the cold pomegranate teas are really good. Expensive, but a nice treat once in a while.

[Scott Dolan]

No, not Pom. This is a company that only does juices. I may have a bottle at the house, I'll check and see what the name is.

[Uli]

Cranberry. With Vodka.

[Gentle Giant]

ooh, yeah, I forgot about cranberry juice. Love it nice and cold.