Hydraulic Juicer

Hydraulic Juicer Press – a juicer that gives you all the nutrients fruits and vegetables can provide without leaving anything behind.

A hydraulic juicer is considered to be the most effective juicer known to man. It extracts juice from fruits and vegetables giving you 100% all-natural juice without the pulp or other substances that hinders you from digesting essential nutrients your body direly needs.

The hydraulic juicer has been around for years, but not many are familiar with the device. This kind of juicer is in no way conventional. In fact this item is not even carried in most stores in the United States. But don’t let its lack of popularity fool you. There is no doubt that a hydraulic juicer is such an awesome machine.

History of the Hydraulic Juicer

Juice pressing was first introduced way back in the early 1900′s by Dr. Norman Walker. He was an avid advocate of healthy living through maintaining a healthy diet, bowel cleansing and juice pressing. Dr. Walker highly recommended juice pressing over centrifugal spinning when it comes to squeezing out the vital essence of fruits and vegetables. Dr. Walker was extremely conscious about soil depletion during his time, so he considered juice pressing as an essential process to maintain a healthy life. Dr. Walker proved to the world that he was right for he lived to be 114!

The very first hydraulic juicer press was solely based on Dr. Norman Walker’s design and it was aptly called the Norwalk Hydraulic Juicer Press. To date, the Norwalk juicer is still available in the market and it is by far the most well known and sought after hydraulic juicer in the world.

What’s the Difference Between a Hydraulic Juicer and the Other Kinds of Juicers?

Juicing has gained incredible popularity in the past decades for one main reason – to get all the essential nutrients fruits and vegetables can offer. Consuming raw or uncooked vegetables and fruits can help significantly in staying healthy and battling all kinds of diseases including cancer. When you cook foods, the heating process ultimately destroys the health benefits of these foods. So it is imperative that you consume uncooked vegetables and fruits to provide your body with the essential nutrients lost in the cooking process.

A juicer can significantly help in this endeavor to stay healthy. Sure, you can eat fruits and vegetables directly, but transforming these into juice makes life a whole lot easier. Say for example your body needs 5 whole carrots a day to combat some kind of disease. Chomping on 5 whole carrots every day is no easy feat. But if you extract the juice from the carrots, mix in some lime and honey, the concoction actually becomes a treat which is quite enjoyable to drink. But not all juicers are alike. A hydraulic juicer can considerably give you more healthy nutrients and enzymes no other juicers can provide.

Notice how the leftover pulp is still quite damp after running your fruit or vegetable in a centrifugal or electric juicer. A single or twin gear juicer results to a drier pulp, but not that dry. When you extract juice with a hydraulic juicer on the other hand, you will notice that the remaining pulp is bone dry. This means that a hydraulic juicer squeezes out each drop from the fruit or vegetable leaving you with a 100% highly nutritious glass of juice.

Also, most electric juicers extract juice at very fast speeds. This movement allows for air to enter the device causing oxidation of the juice. The fast movement of the juicer makes the device heat up, so your juice is practically getting “cooked” and this destroys some of the healthy enzymes and nutrients of the food. A hydraulic juicer doesn’t require any fast movements which enables it to preserve all the nutrients of your fruits and vegetables. Moreover, with a hydraulic juicer, you eliminate the oxidation process and in doing so your juice’s storage life increases up to 4 days.

How Does a Hydraulic Juicer Press Work?

As the term implies, a hydraulic juicer presses fruits and vegetables extremely tightly. So each drop of juice contained in the fruit or vegetable is squeezed out. The hydraulic juicer applies such a massive amount of pressure. This pressure is capable of crushing each bone in your hand to pulp, so you definitely wouldn’t like your hand to be caught in it. There’s certainly no doubt that you will be getting 100% healthy, nutrient-rich juice with this kind of device.

A hydraulic juicer is typically equipped with a section that prepares your fruit or vegetable for juicing. This section cuts and grinds the produce so it would me much easier for the devise to squeeze out the juice. Once the fruit/vegetable has been cut and ground, it is automatically dropped into 2 bags made of linen where two stainless steel plates press it tightly. Only pure juice is disposed by the hydraulic juicer and the pulp is left behind for disposal.

Digestive enzymes are released by our body when we chew our food to help our system properly digest whatever we have eaten. Obviously, juice is not chewed so enzymes are not released. Most juicers give us juice that still has a considerable amount of pulp to digest. But with a hydraulic juicer, you get no pulp, just 100% juice, so it makes for extremely easy digestion and assimilation of essential nutrients.

The Pros of a Hydraulic Juicer

 1. A hydraulic juicer produces juice of the highest quality. There is no oxidation involved in the juice pressing process, so your juice can stay fresh up to 3 or 4 days.

2. Each and every drop of juice is squeezed out from your fruits and vegetables. This kind of juicer is definitely cream of the crop and it is second to none when it comes to functionality and getting the most health benefits from produce.

3. Most parts of the hydraulic juicer are dishwasher safe so the device as a whole is relatively easy to clean. However, you do have to wash the linen bags and hang them up to dry every after each use. Some might find this process time consuming.

The Cons of a Hydraulic Juicer

Unfortunately, the hydraulic juicer press is not for everyone. Why? Well, because this machine is considered unaffordable by many. Norwalk Hydraulic Juicer Press, the most popular juicer of its kind, sells for around $2,500. The cheapest kind of hydraulic juicer like the Samson Welles Juicer Press is priced at about $350.  

 

Hydraulic Juicer @ 2011

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