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Manual and Electric Citrus Juicers

Citrus juicers are the best partners of people who love drinking citrus fruit juices everyday. This simple juicing machine enables them to prepare their favorite juices easily and quickly. With the many health benefits these citrus fruits give to the body, citrus juicers play a very important role to help achieve the goal of staying strong and healthy.

Using a citrus juicer makes the preparation convenient, as it saves you time and effort to produce your favorite refreshing drink. One extraordinary feature of a manual citrus juicer is you don’t have to peel the fruits before juicing them. Simply cut the fruit in half and the built-in leverage in between the two handles will squeeze them like a pressing machine. This simple juicing tool works conveniently if you extract a small amount of juice for your daily consumption. Otherwise, juicing fruits in large quantities will tire your hands in pressing the handles. Obviously this manual citrus juicer doesn’t need electric power to work.

Electric citrus juicers have different types of juicing machines too. An electric reamer and a regular electric citrus juicer are the most commonly used. The electric reamer squeezes the fruit and generally produces more juice than the manual juicer. It is more convenient because it is easier to operate. Electric citrus juicers work efficiently for large volumes of juicing since it has a spinning motor that does the work.

In order for you to get the most out of the fresh oranges, tangerines, grapefruits, lemons and limes, you should use a citrus juicer and enjoy the best refreshing beverage your body needs. You can also mix up other fruit to your favorite one, for a great tasting variety of juice. One way to get more of the nutrients in the citrus fruit like Vitamin C, potassium, calcium, thiamine and niacin, is to use a citrus juicer.

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Breville Juicers: A Kitchen Must Have

Fruit and vegetable juices are the healthiest refreshing drinks for everybody. People around the world are getting conscious with their health and the easiest way to have a nutritious and healthy drink is to have a juicing machine.

If you are interested in looking for the very best juicer offered in the market today, you should consider Breville Juicers and their many models available in all appliance stores. All their juicers have very strong motors and large food chutes. Fruits and vegetables are extracted fast and easy and the refreshing juices come out in just 5 seconds. Breville juicers feature high-speed motors to customize juicing speed for any particular fruit or veggies. They reduce your time in cutting and slicing fruits as the wide chutes can accommodate whole fruits and vegetables. They do the whole process of peeling, cutting, and extracting, so that not even a small amount of juice is wasted. In some of their featured model juicers have overload protection to alert you when the juicer is getting overload. This is a protection to insure the juicer’s non-stop operation and longer life.

Breville fruit and orange juicers are so simple and easy to clean. The parts are safe to dismantle and reassemble after washing. A cleaning brush is provided in all Breville juicer models so all food traps are eliminated. Recipe books are included in the box to give you juice ideas and on how to make use of the extracted pulps. They can still be mixed in your other cooking like soups, cakes, and cookies.

People are very particular with their food intake and everybody knows that fruits and vegetables are a must-have for our daily consumption. Take the best juicers that would make you satisfied for having one. Choose among the simple yet elegant models of Breville Juicers. They promise durable and excellent juicing performance.

Portable Fridges – Outside And In

A portable fridge is a very popular appliance with many consumers.  Their main appeal is that they allow the ability to refrigerate away from the kitchen and out on the road.

There are several different kinds of portable fridge: the 12V car fridge; the 3-way camping fridge; and a generic compact fridge intended for household use – such as a dorm fridge.

For those in the market for a car fridge, one of the best buys is probably a 12V Engel fridge freezer.  These units are very expensive – in the $800 dollar range – but provide a very energy efficient, highly rugged and reliable solution for buyers looking for a 12V car fridge freezer.

Unlike cheaper and less efficient competitors they can freeze reliably, and can be ran from a vehicle’s car battery for quite some time without draining it to a dangerous level.  Be sure to look specifically for a compressor type 12v refrigerator, in preference to the inferior absorption technology models.

12V fridge freezers are very popular amongst off-grid types who crave energy independence.  Their high efficiency makes them a good choice for those attempting to power their refrigerator from alternate energy sources such as solar panels or wind turbines.

Portable camping fridges are usually of the 3-way type.  Three way fridges have the flexibility of being powered by three potential power sources.  Dometic and Waeco are well regarded brands. House current, used at home or when tapped into the grid is the most reliable option.  LPG (propane gas) can be used in remote locations such as hunting cabins, or within RVs, and can provide extended refrigeration for weeks on an average size tank.  Finally they can also draw power from a 12v DC system, though admittedly this is not their strong point.

For remote locations that do not have grid power available these are a good solution for portable refrigeration provided that a ready source of propane – and refills – is available.

The final common type of portable fridge is the type frequently found around the home.  These are normal refrigerators or fridge freezers – they use house power – but are simply compact versions.

Regular portable fridges are very popular for use as second refrigerators.  Small fridges are frequently used as mini bar fridges in home entertainment areas or media rooms.  Mini fridges like these are also very popular choices for use as college dorm fridges.

A grid powered small fridge like this is also often found in workplace break rooms and can also make a great beverage fridge for your home office or study.

Clearly, when purchasing a portable fridge, you must carefully consider how you will be utilizing the appliance – and then buy the appropriate model of portable refrigerator from the wide selection that is available.

As with most major purchases you will get what you pay for.  So plan to spend a little extra and purchase a quality model.  This could potentially save you a lot of the heartache – and in the long term money – that can result from choosing the cheapest options.

A hand juicer as a survival tool

Many people are familiar with the practice of juicing fruits and vegetables, to make nutritious and tasty drinks. Everyone is probably aware that increasing your intake of fruit and vegetable matter (and this includes fresh juice) is very healthy, and can improve the quality of your life. But how can a juicer machine save your life?

I recently read an interesting discussion claiming that grass – not wheat grass, but plain old lawn grass – is an overlooked source of food in times of famine, war, and other times of need. Now before the scientifically minded amongst you jump up and down and say “no no grass can’t be eaten – you need a rumen, or the enzyme cellulase to break it down”, this is how it works:

Although grass fibre ( mainly cellulose, and it’s true you DO specifically need the enzyme cellulase to break it down to a simpler form) is of very little use to humans, it is still possible to crush the juice out of the grass and drink this. What does it taste like? It tastes like wheat grass apparently, and although it is not the best flavour in the world, it still contains a mixture of simple sugars that are sustaining enough to potentially get you through an emergency.

So, you need some way to crush lawn grass. Of course an electric juicer is a great way to juice, but an electric machine isn’t going do much good to as if electricity grid is down! In this case, the best option is a hand juicer. A hand juicer is any juicer which is powered manually, and the most common types are those which you clamp to a surface like a kitchen bench, and then turn a crank handle while feeding in ingredients. Hand juicers are generally used to juice wheat grass, so they aren’t really going to struggle when juicing lawn grass.

This information probably sounds quite wacky, and you should probably be careful when applying it! However, whichever way you look at it a compact hand juicer does sound like a useful survival tool. There are many things that you could find that you could juice if you had to,  which would not be very palatable to eat. Think of edible native plants such as thistles, which are edible but very stringy and difficult to chew. A hand juicer can be purchased for as little as $50, and could be an excellent investment one day.

Cold climate survival: How and why thermal underwear can save your life

When people think of outdoor survival situations under adverse conditions they tend to think of survival knives, maybe guns, and other iconic tools of the action-hero survivalist. But the fact is that one of the greatest dangers you will face in the wild will not be from wild animals or head hunters…cold will kill you faster than anything else.

Experienced outdoors men and women like to talk about the rule of 3’s: A person can go for 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, and 3 hours without warmth.

There is a lot of truth in this old rule, and you need to prepare carefully if you are setting out on any expedition. It might just be a camping trip, it might be a white water rafting trip, or you may be going searching for fossil bones. In any case, it’s better to be prepared than to face a situation without the necessary survival equipment.

Thermal underwear is a fantastic invention which seriously can save your life. Many professional athletes and adventurers wear thermal underwear not just to stay comfortable, but also to avoid injury. If you’ve never worn thermal underwear before you may suspect that it is itchy or uncomfortable, but modern thermals are smooth and in fact barely noticeable once you have them on. There are three main types of thermal underwear that you can obtain:

The cheapest kind of thermal underwear is usually of the acrylic fiber type, which is a synthetic fiber. Acrylic fibers  are relatively inexpensive, and also quite hard wearing. The downside can be that synthetic fibers absorb body odor, and can be difficult to refresh.

Also fairly affordable, is cotton thermal underwear. You need to be careful with cotton underwear though, as cotton has a distinct disadvantage in the field. When it gets wet, it completely loses its ability to insulate you, and is in fact worse than useless. Cotton thermal underwear is only appropriate for fairly light duty applications, and should not be worn into serious survival situations.

By far the best type of thermal underwear is pure wool. It might surprise some people to learn this, but wool has been used by civilizations all around the world for countless thousands of years for a good reason – it has amazing natural insulating properties, and it is also naturally antibacterial. Even when wet, wool maintains the ability to insulate your body, and as such is the best choice when you are embarking on a quest into the unknown.