Alright! This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com. Today we have another exciting episode for
you and what we're going to do today is we're going to juice a pineapple, aloha from Hawaii
actually in the Omega VSJ 843 juicer. Now pineapples can be a big challenge to juice
in many slow juicers. As a matter of fact pineapple will clog up many slow juicers and
you need to juice the pineapple properly for decent results. At present time the vertical
slow juicers are my favorite juicers to juice pineapples by far, but certain techniques
must be followed to juice pineapple successfully. So in this episode we're going to show you
guys how to do it in the VSJ or other vertical slow juicers.
The first step comes down to when you go to the store to pick out your pineapple you want
to make sure you get a nice hard and firm pineapple. This one actually happens to be
really bright yellow, this is a really good sign of ripeness. But the ones that are bright
yellow might not be the best one to juice because if you press on them and your hand
could, your fingers press into it like a ripe avocado, it gives with pressure. That's not
a good pineapple to juice. You want to get one that's super hard, super
firm because that's going to have much better hard, fibrous texture that the slow juicers
are going to be able to latch onto and eject out the pulp. One of the challenges when juicing
anything soft the slow juicers have a hard problem. So always when juicing in any slow
juicer get the hardest, firmest produce as you possibly can and as fresh as possible,
step number one. So step number two is very simply to prepare
the pineapple properly. The first step is we're going to go ahead and spin off the crown,
comes off nice and easily. Then next we're going to do is we're just going to go ahead
and cut off the two ends of the pineapple. We're going to rotate this guy around, we're
going to go ahead and cut off the other end. I usually like to get the little eye out of
there. Then what we're going to do is I like to set
this on the side of the cutting board and I like to basically just cut off all the skin.
Juicing the skin may cause your juicer to clog up, so I do recommend removing the skin
in addition if you are buying non-organic pineapples or conventional pineapples the
problem is that they're probably spraying the pineapples with a fungicide which you
do not want to consume in my opinion. So as you guys can see we're just spinning this
around, cutting off the skin little by little, try to preserve as much of the pineapple fruit
as we can because that's where the delicious goodness lies.
Alright, so we got that all spun around. As you guys could see we have the pineapple that's
completely cored there. Next what we have to do is actually we have to cut the pineapple
core out, we're going to separate the core from the fruit itself, you guys know that
the core is the part in the middle. You can kind of see in this close up picture this
is the core, the core extends all the way up to the top of the fruit. This is the hardest
part of the pineapple to juice and if you put the core in whole into the juicer it will
clog your juicer and it will work miserably. So what we're going to do is very simply we're
going to go ahead and make a tic tac toe pattern. So like we put a knife cut there on top, here
on top and right here and right here. We have basically a tic tac toe, the center square
is where the core is and we're going to want to cut all the way down to the bottom. Hopefully
just getting only the fruit out and once you make your first cut you kind of see how close
you are. We're just going to go ahead and once again cut all the way down to the bottom
and we're going to try to just keep the core intact right in the middle. Finally we got
our last cut here, cutting right down. So now we have basically one core piece that's
right here, this is what it looks like. I'm going to finally trim off that little bottom
that I do not want to juice there. This core is actually quite hard to cut through. So
as you guys just saw we have pineapple pieces and then core pieces. So what we're going
to do is we're just going to simply go ahead and cut up the pineapple pieces into pieces
that'll easily fit through the juicer. Alright so there's all our fruit pieces that would
probably be delicious to eat, but we're going to juice this guy today.
Next we're going to want to deal with this big core. Like if you just, oh this core will
fit, if you just put it in the juicer that would not be a good thing. We want to cut
up this core into small pieces so that'll juice properly. So the first thing I'm going
to do is I'm going to go ahead and put this on the cutting board and we're just going
to slice the core length-wise. This is cutting up the fibers, the fibers are running length-wise
so this is just cutting the fibers up into smaller pieces. I've cut it into one, two,
three, four, five, pieces, that's pretty good. We're then going to go ahead and take those
five pieces stacked up, we're going to cut them this direction here, maybe do like one,
two, three cuts. What we have now are these long match like sticks here. Then finally
last part we need to go ahead and turn these to the side, line all these guys up and we're
going to go ahead and now dice these guys up into small pieces.
This is going to ensure the core fiber's as small as possible. So this will have the minimal
chance of getting into the outlet port of the juicer. Each of these little core pieces
now are probably like, my goal is to make it eighth inch, that's one eighth inch squares
which it looks like I'm doing fairly well. Now be careful when you're cutting this stuff
up that you don't cut your fingers off. Alright so now that I got all these core pieces
cut up I got a pile of the core pieces and a pile of the fruit pieces, now we're going
to simply go ahead and turn on the machine and we're going to go ahead and basically
drop in one fruit piece and if you cut the fruit pieces small enough the juicers going
to basically autofeed for you. So after we put in a fruit piece we're going to take just
a little bit of the core and we're going to alternate fruiting in the fruit and the core
pieces, fruit and core pieces. As you guys can see we're instantly getting
some pineapple juice out the juice side and the pulp is ever so slowly coming out. I might
end up putting like two pineapple pieces followed by a few core pieces. Once again, super important
thing to remember is when you're at the store to buy pineapple get the hardest, firmest
one. If they only got soft ones go to a different store and buy the hard ones because you will
be basically creating agony for yourself if you're trying to juice a soft pineapple.
Now one of the tips I want to give you is if you do end up with a soft pineapple and
you do want to juice it, one of the quick and easy tips to juice a pineapple to make
it successful is juice it with a carrot. So then what you're going to do is you're just
going to take a piece of pineapple and then you're just going to juice a carrot, a piece
of pineapple, a piece of carrot. You could have pineapple carrot juice and the carrot
provides that nice, hard fiber that really gets the juice to come out and more importantly
the fiber not to get clogged in the ejection port.
So I'm just going to go ahead and continue to juice this pineapple. Now the other thing
you're seeing me not do is use the pusher to cram down each piece after I put it in.
You want to give the juicer sufficient time to work and process the pineapple at its own
slow rate. If you're pushing things in you're probably pushing things in too quickly and
you may overload the juicer which is basically going to make the results even worse. As you
guys could see we got the pineapple pulp finally starting to come out of the chute there and
we got plenty pineapple juice, looks like 300 ml so far. I'm going to go ahead and continue
to put some pieces in there and followed by a little handful of the core pieces there.
As you guys can see we're not really getting any blockages in the pulp ejection port, it's
working fairly good. We're going to probably put a few more pieces of fruit in there to
get them juiced up. So one of the common things you'll see when
juicing pineapple is if you look down the feed chute you're probably going to see like
pineapple mush that's actually not getting pushed through the machine. Once again that's
because we don't have enough hard fibrous material that helps push that pulp out. Once
again, putting through a carrot will help push all that through and to extract all the
juice out of the pineapple. Nonetheless this looks like it's doing really great. We got
600 ml of juice now from this one small pineapple which is really good. We got the last piece
of fruit going right in, dump that right in there. Then finally we're going to go ahead
and get the rest of this fiber. Now I always like to end with the core pieces
because the core pieces are the hard fiber that's going to help push out and get the
juice out of all that fruit which is quite delicious. Now note I'm not sticking the knife
in here, I'm just using the knife to pick up all these core pieces to put it in. Do
not put anything into the feed chute of the juicer except the pusher that is included
with the machine. Alright, so that's the last of the core pieces there. It looks like they've
gone in and it looks like juicer's juicing up. Still dripping up a few little drops and
the last thing I want to remind you guys is once you put the last items of produce to
juice in the juicer don't just instantly turn off the machine, it does need a little bit
of time to continue to run to get all that delicious juice out.
So I think it's been running long enough let's go ahead and turn this guy off, we're going
to go ahead and put this spout cap down so we don't get any drips, looks like we got
a total of 700 mls of pineapple juice, we're going to go ahead and pour this out for you
guys so you guys could see the texture. Look at that, I'm not seeing any fiber in that
juice whatsoever, nice and clean, this is probably going to be one of the best pineapple
juices I've had in a while, straight from Hawaii. Man, I don't taste any fiber. Normally
in most vertical slow juicers you would definitely to have use a strainer or a sieve to strain
out all the pulp but in the VSJ juicer it's left very little pulp in the juice, it's done
an amazing job with pineapple and I'm confident it will for you too as long as you follow
my directions. Number one select the proper pineapple that's
nice and firm. Number two cut it properly as I showed you guys and alternate feeding
it and I'm sure you're going to be able to enjoy fresh, delicious pineapple juice with
the all new Omega VSJ juicer. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode, once again
my name is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com, be sure to visit discountjuicers.com/youtube
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Omega VSJ 843- Unboxing. So before we get into the unboxing I wanted
to share with you guys some of the features of the VSJ juicer that are actually shared
on the box with you guys. Number one it says 43 RPMs, 43 revolutions per minute, this is
how fast