Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer

Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer sits, well-used, on the island in my kitchen. I just can't imagine life without it.

My juicing lifestyle began with a smaller juicer that required lots of slicing and dicing of the fruits and vegetables to be juiced. Eventually, I decided I wanted to upgrade to a juicer that required a short amount of time cutting up nature's fine foods when preparing to juice. I also wanted a juicer powerful enough to extract just about all of the juice from the fruits and vegetables to give my body maximum nutritional benefits.

With less powerful juicers, so much of the juice doesn't make its way to one's glass. However, thanks to the patented extraction technology with Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer, 30% more juice - using the same amount of fruit - fills a glass when compared to less advanced juicers on the market. With my former juicer, I would re-juice the pulp as a way of squeezing out the extra juice left in it. I'm in and out of the kitchen a lot faster these days.

Since carrot/apple juice is the juice I make the most, I envisioned a process that would require me to simply rinse the organic carrots and apples, break the large carrots in half, remove the stems from the apples, and then pop them into the juicer for a large dose of instant vitamins. Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer turned my dream into a reality. Once I started using it, the time I took to juice was significantly reduced. If the apples were too large to fit the chute on the juicer, I simply had to cut them in half as opposed to cutting them into many small pieces.

One of my favorite parts of Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer is the blue bin that attaches to the back of it - a container that collects the pulp as the juice is being extracted from the foods. Prior to juicing, I line the bin with a small plastic bag which helps make clean-up a breeze. The collected pulp can be used in many ways: to make salads, smoothies, soups, pies, casseroles, muffins, breads, or compost for soil, to name a few. On those days that the pulp serves no purpose, the bag in the bin can simply be tied and discarded.