Can the Hurricane Juicer Juice Soft Fleshy Fruits Well?

by Tom
(St. Louis, MO, USA)

I am interested in juicing soft fleshy fruits like raspberries and grapes with the Hurricane Juicer. Do you know if the Hurricane Manual Juicer can juice things like that well?

Or perhaps more generally and from the opposite angle, what fruits and vegetables does the Hurricane Juicer not juice well (since you say that it "does a good job of juicing most vegetables and fruits," what are the few that it doesn't do a good job with?)

Thank you.


Eryn's Reply: Hmmm, I have not been able to test out all the fruits and vegetables with the Hurricane Manual Stainless Steel Juicer. That being said, the information I provide should give you a pretty good idea about the Hurricane Manual Juicer and its juicing capabilities.

This post shares some specific information on juicing vegetables plus pomegranates with the Hurricane Juicer. Generally speaking, the Hurricane Manual Juicer does best with the harder vegetables and truly "shines" when it comes to juicing the cereal grasses, like health promoting wheatgrass and equally nourishing barley grass.

From years of experience with blenders, electric juicers, manual juicers, and electric citrus juicers (the kind with the spout that you press the half citrus on top of while the spout spins around), I select those juicers to best and easiest get the juicing job done.

When it comes to softer fruit besides for citrus, I find the most success with blending them. I like to eat the entire fruit, including the pulp. I love to use the blender for mango, pineapple, all berries, peaches, and bananas.

For juicing lots of apples, I like the electric juicers. However, the Hurricane Juicer does great with apples. Just remember when using the Hurricane Juicer for fruits and veggies, besides for the cereal grasses, to put in that filtering screen.

Alright, so I just happen to have some green grapes and blackberries sitting on my counter. Let's see here. OK, the green grapes juiced up quite well with the Hurricane Juicer. You can see the grape juice in my photo to the left.


The grape juice is actually more light transparent green in actuality - for some reason not quite as clear and light green in this picture. The Hurricane Juicer had no trouble juicing the green grapes. A real "piece of cake" for sure! Just put in the grapes and turn the handle and out comes the grape juice.

However, so much pulp comes through, and that pulp is so moist, filled with so much additional juice. Even if I juiced the pulp again, it does not come out dry. So for juicing grapes with the Hurricane Manual Juicer, I do not recommend juicing them with the Hurricane Juicer, too much wasted juice despite repeated juicing of the pulp.

OK, next I juiced blackberries with the Hurricane Juicer since they are kind of similar in texture to the raspberries you inquired about. Again, the Hurricane Juicer had no trouble extracting the juice from the blackberries. In the photo above you can see the blackberry juice juiced from the Hurricane Juicer. The problem is that the blackberry pulp was so moist too. And I certainly could never waste that incredibly nourishing and delicious pulp. That is why I never juice berries. I only blend them and then consume them in their entirety.

My, the grape juice and blackberry juice is so delicious! Yummy!

I hope the information presented in regards to juicing with the Hurricane Manual Juicer will help you understand if the Hurricane Juicer is the right juicer for you Tom.

Good luck!

Eryn


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