Quite a few people have asked, “How long does it take to juice?”
First, how many hours of TV do you watch? Do you play video games? Do you watch Internet porn? You waste hours of time a day. But you don’t have time to juice?
Second, let me tell you who has time to juice:
- A friend who works on Wall Street and often has 60-80 hour weeks;
- A successful trial lawyer;
- A sales professional who is on the road 3-5 days a week;
- The CFO of a medium-sized company;
- A young lawyer who works nearly every weekend.
If they can find the time to juice, what keeps you so busy that you can’t juice?
The truth is that you have time to juice. You’ll just have to stop doing something else.
Now read: Juicing Recipes.
How long does it take to exercise? How long does it take to prepare your own meals? How long does it take to meet new friends? Learn to love what you’re doing and you won’t care how long it takes. Exercising, juicing, making your own food, and meeting interesting new people are all awesome.
How do you clean the big mouth? Do you wash the basket in the sink and put the rest in the dishwasher, or do you do the rest by hand as well?
I use the scrubber brush on the blade for about 90 seconds. I scrub off the pulp from the other parts and then throw them into dishwasher.
It takes me 3 or so minutes to clean.
The secret to cleaning a juicer is to do it immediately. Once the pulp dries you’ll double your cleaning time.
So I’ve been drinking juice every day, twice a day for the past month.
Love it.
So do my chickens.
I feed them all the pulp and peelings. They’ve been laying eggs with even deeper shades of orange yolk. Juicing for men AND for the birds!
I’ve figured out that peeling all the ingredients like carrots, ginger and beets makes for better tasting juice – it comes out more bitter/acidic if I leave them unpeeled.
But I do include the lemon and lime peels in my juice.
I’ve been using some old Costco brand 1.75 ml tequila bottles, and making a whole ton of juice in a single session. The bottles are perfect for refrigeration and I just pour myself two glasses a day, one at night and one in the morning. It takes me about 4 days to drink the whole 1.75 ml, so I’ve been making about 8 days worth of juice once a week.
As a regular intermittent faster, I’ve found that juicing makes it infinitely easier. I’ve gone 28 hrs. with nothing but a couple of glasses of juice and some coconut water…all while working manual labor and training. No problems with the energy levels for this juiced up old man!
So glad you started this blog, FitJuice, you got me going on this and I see it as a permanent fixture in my daily diet.
Not sure if I posted this. If not, you’ll get a chuckle:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22646790
The effects of kale (Brassica oleracea ssp. acephala), basil (Ocimum basilicum) and thyme (Thymus vulgaris) as forage material in organic egg production on egg quality.
Hammershøj M, Steenfeldt S.
Source
Department of Food Science, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University, Tjele, DK-8830, Denmark.
Abstract
1. In organic egg production, forage material as part of the diet for laying hens is mandatory. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of feeding with forage materials including maize silage, herbs or kale on egg production and various egg quality parameters of the shell, yolk colour, egg albumen, sensory properties, fatty acid and carotenoid composition of the egg yolk.
2. A total of 5 dietary treatments were tested for 5 weeks, consisting of a basal organic feed plus 120 g/hen.d of the following forage materials: 1) maize silage (control), 2) maize silage incl. 15 g/kg basil, 3) maize silage incl. 30 g/kg basil, 4) maize silage incl. 15 g/kg thyme, or 5) fresh kale leaves.
Each was supplied to three replicates of 20 hens. A total of 300 hens was used.
3. Feed intake, forage intake and laying rate did not differ with treatment, but egg weight and egg mass produced increased significantly with the kale treatment.
4. The egg shell strength tended to be higher with the kale treatment, and egg yolk colour was significantly more red with the kale treatment and more yellow with basil and kale treatments. The albumen DM content and albumen gel strength were lowest with the thyme treatment. By sensory evaluation, the kale treatment resulted in eggs with less sulphur aroma, higher yolk colour score, and more sweet and less watery albumen taste. Furthermore, the eggs of the kale treatment had significantly higher lutein and β-carotene content. Also, violaxanthin, an orange xanthophyll, tended to be higher in kale and eggs from hens receiving kale.
5. In conclusion, forage material, especially basil and kale, resulted in increased egg production and eggs of high and differentiable quality.
Now that’s cool! Next weeks farmer’s market, I think I’ll double down and buy extra kale just to feed the birds, not just my juicer.
Kale, bok choy, collard greens, beets…..my hens eat all the pulp. Every last bit of it – and I let them forage on my property as well.
You can literally take one of their eggs and crack it open next to a store bought, commercially produced egg and see a tremendous difference in quality.