Juicing Citrus…With A Fork
Posted on August 18, 2010 by LJ Earnest
Categories: Simplification
Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.
Here is one way I eliminated a uni-tasker in my kitchen. We used to juice citrus fruit with a dedicated juicer. It was a pointed top over a glass jar. You cut the fruit in half and smushed it down on the top, and the juice would drain into the jar.
I didn’t want to clean the juicer one day, so I tried something different. I took a dessert fork (with close-set tines) and stuck it into my lemon. Then I twisted the fork around while squeezing the fruit over a bowl.
I actually think I got more juice out of the fruit using this method, and it was a lot less hassel to clean up.
Do you have any clever ways to juice fruit, or do anything else in the kitchen?
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Comments (3)
I’ve got several citrus trees in my garden (lemon, lime, Valencia orange, & grapefruit, plus kumquat, so a good citrus squeezer is a must for me. I don’t buy pre- squeezed juice and probably use some form of citrus juice nearly daily. Any idea how many oranges need to be squeezed to make one small 5 oz glass of OJ? More than most people think, because hardly anyone fresh-squeezes OJ anymore (that’s why they toss back 16 oz of OJ not realizing they just consumed the sugar content of about 8+ oranges). So my big, heavy juicer earns it’s space. I use a lever-operated citrus press which gets every drop of juice as well as strains seeds, though I can see how a fork would work fine for many people who only use a tiny bit of fresh lemon or lime juice now and then.
Last night I watched a mid-70s era BBC TV series about a cook for a rich family in 1900 London (The Duchess of Duke Street, watched via Instant Play on Netflix). She juiced lemons around her thumb!
I have a heavy duty whisk that I use to juice citrus fruits… works great!