recommend a good juicer | Page 2 | Food Production and Preservation | Forums

I've had a few juicers, and just picked up a Blendtec blender at Christmas. The blender blows any juicer I've ever owned out of the water.

With the blender, you're getting all of the nutrients that you'd normally be getting from the juicer, plus all the fiber that you'd end up throwing out. Every juicer I've had, has been a complete pain in the ass to clean, which made me use it less often than I would've liked. Since getting my blender, I've had at least one green smoothie per day. To clean it, I rinse it out, put about 2 cups of water and a drop of dish soap in it, and pulse it for 15-20 seconds. Rinse the soap out, and it's clean.

Blenders are way more versatile too. In addition to just using it like a normal blender, I've used it to make peanut butter, normal butter, juices, green smoothies, different types of batters, turned granulated sugar into powdered sugar, and soup. The soup thing still blows my mind. You literally dump in your ingredients (which are typically fresh or steamed veggies), push the "soup" button, and 90 seconds later you have hot soup. The friction created by the high speed blenders actually heats the soup in the blender, but it doesn't cook it enough to destroy all the nutrients.

The high end blenders (Vita-mix & Blendtec) are expensive. But my blender is now my most used appliance, and I think it was completely worth it. I haven't tried it yet, but I've read you can also use a high end blender like a grain mill to turn wheat berries into flour.

I have the blendtec also. I've never had a juicer but basically I chose this because of so many recommendations of the top of the line blenders over ajuicer

There's always a catch!