Juicers

Three different machines get called a juicer, and they do not take the same fruit.

A citrus press takes a halved orange or lemon and leaves the peel in your hand. It is the right tool for one or two glasses. It is a poor tool for a bag of carrots.

A centrifugal juicer, the Nutri Juicer pattern, drops whole fruit onto a fast spinning mesh. Juice comes out quickly and with a layer of foam. Soft fruit such as berries can fly out as pulp rather than liquid. Seeds and a lot of pith make the mesh clog, so a firm apple behaves better than an overripe pear.

A slower auger juicer is the one that manages leafy greens. It also takes longer to wash, because the auger, the screen and the pulp cup all come apart. Pulp left in the basket overnight is what makes the kitchen smell. Empty it the same day.

Pulp from a centrifugal basket is wet. If you are juicing for one person, a press or a blender may waste less fruit than a full juicer you then have to wash.

Related: jug blenders and stick blenders, which crush rather than separate juice from fibre.