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[Christopher396]

I've been using a regular hand juicer for lemons, limes, oranges, and gratefruits for my drinks. While that works, it's not very fast, and it makes a bit of a mess. What kind of juicer do you use and recomend? I've been looking at electric units and also the big manual units with the slot machine style levers. I'm not sure which kind I should buy.

Edited by Christopher396, 28 July 2012 - 10:14 AM.

[budrichard]

I use a heavy duty hand sqeezer made by NorPro http://www.amazon.co...s=lime squeezer
I believe and sold for around $25..
Works great!-Dick

[Panaderia Canadiense]

I have a hand-squeezer (cast iron) and a lever-press (stainless steel), both of which are excellent and rapid tools. The lever press extracts a bit more juice, but it's too large for most limes, hence the hand-squeezer. The lever, hence, is used for large citruses including my friend's ginormous lemons, sweet and sour oranges, the occasional grapefruit, and mandalimes.

I'd advise against light metal lime presses - they require a great deal more hand strength and often don't press as completely as heavy models. I have a light stainless steel lime press, and it's the crappiest gadget in the drawer - it doesn't have enough weight to completely express a lime, and after 3-4 my hands start to hurt due to the thinner handles (and this from somebody who kneads 16-20 lbs of heavy bread by hand every day - hand strength isn't an issue for me.)

[Lisa Shock]

I've got an old 1950's manual juicer that has the slot machine type handle and a domed top. I also have an automatic juicer attachment for my DeLonghi DSM7 mixer. I tend to just use the manual one for a couple of drinks. It seems easier to clean than the automatic one. I've only used the automatic one a few times; when I was making sorbet and needed a lot of juice. That said, the attachment was significantly cheaper than buying a free-standing electric unit and takes up less space.