This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Today I have another exciting episode for you and it's going to be fun one at that.
I was never able to make a video like this before because right now I'm not actually
staying at my house.
I'm staying at a friends place but it's the perfect opportunity, actually, to a share
a video with you guys on the top 3 tips on how to most effectively clean your juicer
because we have an excellent example of maybe somebody that does not follow these tips,
but that's alright.
We're going to get him set straight with this video.
So, the first step when juice and, you know, making our own fresh vegetable juice is to
make cleanup as easy as possible.
Now, they've done that here by a couple methods.
Number 1, they actually have a little cutting board here on the table that's going to catch
any drips so that you can easily wipe it up.
The next method I want to show is one they do have a pulp catch container like this,
instead of just having stuff go directly into the pulp catch container which then you need
to dump it and it's also really dirty that you have to wash.
What I like to do is take a standard plastic bag from the grocery store or the produce
bags, which I like better 'cause sometimes these'll get holes in the bottom.
You're going to lien your container, your catch container, with e produce bag.
This was all the pulp is contained within there and it's going to make one less tings
for you to clean at the end.
The next step, really big tip for cleaning your juicer is to, and this is like the most
important one overall is to clean your juicer right after you're done.
You do not want to let the juice or the pulp sit in the juicer for any significant amount
of time after you make the juice.
Now, why is that?
Well, let me go ahead and show you.
What we have here today is the Jack Loraine juicer and we're going to go ahead and take
this guy apart.
Now, the Jack Loraine is a centripetal ejection style juicer and actually, it's a fairly good
juicer.
The only big issue I have with it is it has a short warranty and the replacement parts
can get a little but expensive because the warranty's not going to cover parts outside
the warranty.
With many juicers, discountjuicer.com offers, even in the same price range, they offer a
10-year warranty.
So, you're guaranteed a juice that's going to work for the next, say, 10 years and most
of the juicer we offer you're going to have a 5-year warranty but I recommend buying a
juicer with a nice long warranty.
That means you're only gong to have to buy a juicer once and not have to keep buying
them year after year if the one that you buy does have a short warranty and it does break.
So, we're going to go ahead and take this guy apart and you can see in here, you now,
this juicer's been sitting here, I don't know, for a couple hours, maybe, unlcleaned like
this and all the pulp gets in there.
Now, when the pulp gets in there and you're juicing, that's pretty cool 'cause it's still
pretty wet, but once it's been sitting in here, it actually cakes on and all the carotenoids
and chlorophyll and the color and the pigments form the vegetables get kind of set in to
the plastic, which looks unsightly, but it's not really a big issue, but I'm more concerned
about, you know, just if you let this sit out a while there's like could be bacteria
that couple be growing in this stuff and then if you just juice later, you could be adding
extra bacteria into your juice, which is not healthy.
The next thing that's really the hardest part to clean on any juicer is right here is the
screen and they have this special tool that you need to remove your screen on the Jack
Loraine.
That's why I don't like this juicer 'cause if you lose this tool you pretty much can't
get your juicer apart.
So, here's the cutting teeth.
So, if pulp gets stuck in the cutting teeth, it can be hard to dislodge, but aside form
that, the biggest part of any juicer and the hardest part to clean is the juicing screen
itself.
This is where there's all those little micro holes.
This is where the juice comes through and the pulp get ejected out.
Now, if you're micro holes start getting clogged up on your juicer, on any juicer, it's going
to reduce your yield significantly and, you know, pulp that gets dry and stuck into the
holes of the juicer is absolutely the hardest stuff to clean out.
I mean, once it gets stuck in there, you pretty much just got to soak this for like 24 hours
and then scrub really good to get it out.
What I like to do is I like to hold the screen up to the light to make sure I can see through
all of the majority of the holes in there and if I didn't get them all, I'm going to
go back and scrub the some more and finally, on this juicer here the main part that's been
getting a lot of wear and ear here is this main bowl.
There's a lot of discoloration on this inside and the discoloration may just be stains on
the plastic but I'm kind of concerned if it also may be some kind of bacteria growth or
something like that.
So, you know, this will be minimized if you clean it right after you use it.
So, most important thing, clean your juicer right after you use it.
I know some of you guys might be busy and you got to like run out to work and you're
late to work, at minimum, and I still recommend cleaning right after you use, at minimum just
soaking it in a tub of water with some soap.
At least that will make it a lot easier to clean later when you get home instead of just
keeping it dry.
The next tip that I want to give you is get the proper cleaning tool.
Many of you guys may have a little sponge and try to wipe your juicer down and whatnot
and, you know, while that does work good, you know, the sponge is not an effective tool,
in my opinion, to clean the juicing screen or the blade and I mean, literally if you
house the sponge on many of the juicing blades with the teeth it'll tear your sponge up,
man.
It's bad.
So, what they have is just a standard dish brush.
You get a fancy one like this with the little flower on the back or I go to the dollar store,
get a nice dollar store brush with the nylon bristles, and you want to get a nylon bristle
brush that has nice, hard, firm bristles, not ones that, you know, crush when you put
your hand on, nice and firm.
With this brush, I like to go ahead and take the juicing screen under some running water.
If you're into California and want to conserve water, just get a little bit of water under
your brush and start scrubbing and then every once in a while, you know, wash this off and
don't leave the water running, but we're going to go in there and clean the screen off, both
sides, front and back, while scrubbing and this is going to dislodge all the pulp.
This is going to work much better than using any kind of sponge.
The same dish brush you can use on all different parts of the juicer.
I find that this kind of just gets in there better to, you know, clean off any juicing
stains.
I mean, this brush can be used for all different sizes.
Now, when buying one of these brushes, I like to get ones that are more narrow at the top
and smaller, you know, than these nice fat rounds ones 'cause they can kind of get in
to some more nooks and crannies than some of these other ones, and maybe pick up a couple.
I like to go to Asian stores 'cause they have some rally cool designs of brushes, including
like pipe cleaner style brushes and smaller ones that are really effective and getting
into some of the harder to reach places in there's juicers.
Let's see the final cleaning that I want to share with you guys today is that if you do
get stuck on stained don stuff that you just can't scrub out any more then what I recommend
you guys to is get like a 5-gallon bucket, fill it up with some hot water and some cascade,
you know, automatic dishwasher detergent and soak your parts, like, overnight.
At the end of the night, then you're going to take these parts out and then scrub it
really good and you should pretty much get all the discoloration off.
Another thing I have used in the past is oxyclean and that has worked for me, you know.
In general they do not recommend you dishwash your juicer parts.
Some companies say it's alright, some say it's not alright.
I personally say that if you're going to dishwash them, you want to make sure you put them on
the top shelf with the heat off.
The heat can denature and melt the plastic and significantly reduce the plastic parts
in your juicer.
So, if you do dishwash I'd probably dishwash my juicer once a week, usually handwash it
every time.
At the end of the week, maybe just to get it sparkling clean, top shelf, heat off and,
you know you'll keep your juicer pretty clean and then, maybe if needed once a month or,
you know several times a year, soak this in hot water or some cascade and the hot water
or some oxyclean to bring it looking right back to new.
So, hopefully after knowing these tips you'll now, number 1, line your pulp catch container
with a plastic bag.
That'll save you one less part to clean.
You're going to get a nice brush, get it right after you're done using it for the easiest
way to clean and if you do want it looking like new you can dishwash it, maybe once a
week, top shelf, if the company says that your juicer is dishwasher safe and then finally
soak it in some hot water and some cascade or some oxyclean to get it back to looking
like new.
You know, one of the biggest factors when selecting a juicer is to get a juicer that's
easy to clean.
There's many different juicers on the market and some are harder to clean, some are easer
to clean.
I have videos that show, in many cases, all the different parts you need to clean in juicing.
Pretty much the easiest to clean juicer, in my opinion, is the juicer with the smallest
amount of screen area.
The screen area by far is the hardest part to clean on any juicer and so that juicer
would be the omega 8004 or omega 8006.
Smallest screen area and that juicer takes me under 2 minutes to clean.
A juicer like this might take me, I don't know, 3-4 minutes to clean, but, still, when
you consider how much time it took you to clean, to how much of the benefit you're going
to get by drinking this fresh vegetables juices into your body and enhancing your life, I
think the investment in the cleaning is far worth it, especially when you incorporate
some of these tips so that you can reduce, minimize, and keep your juicer looking like
new.
I hope you guys enjoyed this episode learning my top 3 cleaning tips on how to clean your
juicer.
Once gain, my name is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
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