This is John Kohler with discountjuicers.com.
Today I have a very special treat for you.
What we're going to juice today is a pineapple in the Welles Press Juicer.
Now we're going to use the whole pineapple in you know in the olden days when they used
apples and grapes and things they would literally use a press, you know probably a lot more
industrial than this one here.
But this is a hand operated press, so even if you don't have any electricity you can
still juice things.
So in most cases when using the press you do step number one.
Step number one is grating up to produce or at least chopping it up.
In the case of things like berries and great you can basically put them in a press cloth
or the press bag press them out.
In the case of a pineapple, what we're going to do today is we're just basically skin all
the pineapple off, take off the top and we're just going to cut it small little chunks,
like basically diced and then we're going to put it into the Welles press.
So let's first take our pineapple and very important when you're juicing, I like to tell
people to select the produce that's going to juice the best.
So instead of getting a soft mushy pineapple that's not going to work too well, you want
to get a nice firm and ripe pineapple.
How I like to look for pineapples is when they're trying to be as most as yellow as
possible and the least amount of green.
You know if you go to Dole pineapple factory in Hawaii they'll tell you which pineapples
is ripe, and they'll say they're all ripe and they're picked for this sweetness, but
no in my experience always when it's more yellow and you can smell, it smells good then
we got a ripe pineapple.
Another trick a lot of people don't know about pineapple, is you can take a pineapple simply
twist off the top.
And there you go usually comes off, we can discard that and now we have a pineapple.
And what we're going to do, if you have an organic pineapple you can actually juice the
skin and all.
But this is not organic pineapple, so we're going to cut off all the skin and not juice
any of it.
So first what I like to do on preparing the pineapple is we're going to cut off both ends.
Once I got both ends off, I like to put this at the edge of the cutting board and they
were basically just going to cut down.
And cut off all the skin.
If you do leave a few eyes in the pineapple itself you know probably going to be alright,
you just want to take a look in there and make sure there's no mold or anything funny
looking inside each of the eyes.
Sometimes I find there's mold growing.
So that's our basically skinned pineapple.
Once we got that then I basically like to just cut it in half.
The hardest part of the pineapple is the pineapple core.
Set these both down.
Then we're going to go ahead and cut the pineapple into long strips this direction.
Now we're going to cut the pineapple up this direction make it like nice little pieces.
The more you could masticate the produce you're putting into the press the better it's actually
going to work.
As I said in the case of fruits, you know you don't have to cut them down that far,
but it would be the best actually if you did run this through a you know a champion juicer
with a blank plate or Sampson single auger machine or other single augur juicer to basically
mushy all up although this is probably going to work fine.
This is a really juicy pineapple.
Alright that's it.
So there's our cut up pineapple.
Now once we have the cut up pineapple the next step is we're going to put that in the
press bag.
So here is our press bag and you know what you press big will discolor over time.
The carotenoids for example in the carrot which is what gives the carrot the nice orange
a coloring which is actually a rich source of nutrition for us, will stain the press
bag.
It's best just to rinse your press make out with water as soap may break down the fibers
and it won't last as long.
These are nice and heavy duty press bags.
So what now we're simply going to just take our pineapples.
And I you know probably about, we're going to probably take about one half of the pineapple.
And put that into the press bag.
So there you go, that's about one half of the pineapple in the press bag.
So here are all our pineapple pieces in the press bag very important to fold this over
four times, much like you know you're folding a burrito or something like that.
Here's a one fold on this side bring that all the way over.
There we're going to take this side up and tuck that in enough and fold this over, that's
fold number two, then two more nice and even folds.
Fold that up in over, fold three.
And finally last fold, fold it up and over and that's fold number four.
Then a secret is when you're juicing with this you want to put the basically all the
flaps face down.
And it'll basically stay in place and it won't pop open for you.
The next step is we're simply going to jack this up.
Now the Welles press operates with a hydraulic press, this provides four thousand pounds
of pressure against the pineapple to extract all the liquid, all the juice from the pineapple.
If you've never had fresh pressed juiced, you're deftly missing something.
Fresh pressed juice by far is the best in delicious juice to taste is it is a pulp free
juice, this is a hundred percent pineapple juice nothing added.
Pure clean liquid.
Look at that coming out, nice clean juices this is going to be some delicious pineapple
juice.
You can see very little foam, most juices you pineapple, if even worked, would actually
foam up a lot, make a lot of extra foam in the juice which may cause some oxidation and
nutrient degradation to juice.
But not so with the Welles press under the slow up pressing affect you know there's very
little oxidation occurring to the juice.
So using the press multiplies your energy that you're pressing down into four thousand
pounds of pressure to literally press out all the juice from the pulp.
This is one of the most efficient juicers on the planet for that reason.
Let's go ahead and lower down the press and let's said check out the pulp.
Okay so let's check the pulp out out of the press.
Here's the pineapple pulp.
This is really super dry pulp.
I'm going to go ahead and taste it, see what it tastes like.
Have you ever had like dried pineapple and how dry it tastes?
I mean there's not pretty much any juice left in here.
You can see the pineapple fibers from the core that pretty much didn't get juiced.
But man, this is really dry.
I guess if you really like pineapple you might want to eat this or you could probably actually
dehydrate it in the dehydrator.
But there's not a whole lot of juice left here in this pulp.
The Welles press is very efficient in getting all the juice out.
So we just juiced half the pineapple, half the pineapple just yield over one cup.
Let's go ahead and press out the second half of the pineapple.
Once again we just did a pretty much rough cut on the pineapple, we're going to put the
pineapple once again in the press cloth.
We're just going to basically make a nice a pile of pineapple chunks in the middle of
the pressed cloth.
There you go that's all the pineapple on the pressed cloth.
Once again we're going to centered all up make a nice pile in the middle so we can fold
over our press cloth four times.
Once again that's very important fold over four times.
If you just try to fold it up like this you know might not work that well because it's
going to come open.
So fold it over the exact way I'm doing it, make like a burrito, think making a burrito
like at a Mexican restaurant.
It's going to work the best that way.
Let's go ahead and come around on this side.
Once again let's do that.
Take one side roll it over to the other side.
I'm always trying to tuck this under like I'm rolling to sushi for those you the roll
the sushi.
We'll take it over in then we'll pull it back.
Make sure it's nice and tight in there.
Get every last piece in there.
Then fold this over second time.
Then take the edge here.
Try to pull it up tight and then finally we got that's the third fold and finally we have
the forth fold.
Get it nice and even get all that pineapple stuck back down in there.
And pull that up nice and tight.
Alright four folds.
Once again, flip it up and over.
Put the folds face down on the press.
Turn the thumbscrew.
Now this thumbscrew's very important, if you try to jack up and it doesn't move anywhere
that's because this thumbscrew needs to be turned all the way to the right to lock it
so that you can jack it up.
If it's turned to the left too much that's to let it down and if it is turned to left,
you try to jack, it doesn't move, that's because it's not tight.
So you need to turn it all the way to the right.
And once again I really like to show how easy this press.
How about with my pinky?
Using my picky to jack up the press.
Until it gets pretty close the top then I might have to use my hand, but for the most
part I mean, I'm pressing out juice, right now with my pinky still.
Look at all that juice coming out just with pinky power!
Now I'm going to start using my hand and I can get a lot more leverage on it.
And look at the juice flow.
I don't know if you can see the juice on there but look at that juice coming out.
I mean that is a hundred percent pure, clear, pineapple juice.
Now I could guarantee that no other juicer on the market will make the pineapple juice
this clear and this is a truly pulp free juice.
So if you want a pulp free juice use the Welles press.
It's also going to give you a very high yield.
We're going to jack this up some more and as you can see, I've probably filled the press
bag a little bit too much because where the press is coming in contact I'm sure it's pressing
out all the juice but what happened is there's a bit more pineapple pieces in there and it's
squeezed out to the side.
So we're going to want to repress this.
So it's always good to do smaller batches and press you know maybe an extra press, than
trying to fit it all in because it'll just get smooshed out the sides and you won't get
high yield on the extra stuff.
I think that's pretty much it.
We'll let it sit there and let some additional pineapple juice drain off.
Next we're going to go ahead and rotate this.
Just all it takes like a half a turn.
The hand it will come down let you know that the pressure's off via the press.
Now we could simply lower down the press plate and we could take out pineapple pulp.
Once again I always like to look at the pulp and see how dry it is.
And this is what happened.
You can see if you look really closely the press was most effective in this area here
and on the edges this pineapple was virtually not juiced.
So what we're going to do is we're going to take and just fold this up and over into the
middle.
Once again into the middle.
We're going to try to get some of these edges up into the middle too.
So we're going to go on a second round and try to get it all pressed out.
So once again we're going to make four folds.
Fold it over once.
Fold it over twice.
Fold it over three times.
And fold it over four times.
So now we have a much smaller footprint here so this should do much better.
Once again the secret is to put all the folds face down so it stays shut then all we're
going to simply do is turn the thumbscrew all the way to the right to lock it in place.
And then we're going to simply do my favorite part which is jacking it up.
Now you know this jacking.
Is really super simple doesn't take much strength at all.
And you know what the great thing about this machine is if the power goes out or you don't
have electricity you could still make fresh juice.
Look at all that extra juice coming out by just re-, you know moving around all the pineapple
pieces.
Got a lot more juice coming out.
There's the rest of the pineapple juice coming out looks like it's done a very efficient
and effective job juicing pineapples in the Welles press.
So we just got done pressing out the rest of that pineapple now we're just going to
simple turn this thumbscrew, we're going to release the pressure on the press.
We're going to push that press down.
We're going to take out the pineapple pulp and we're going to check it out.
So let's check out the pineapple pulp in here.
Once again this pineapple pulp is just one solid block and this is very dry, most juices
I can take the pulp and then literally putting in my hand and juice would come out and this
is really dry pineapple pulp.
So we started with one whole pineapple.
We have some really dried pineapple pulp and then we have the clear pineapple juice.
Now check out this juice, this is clear pineapple juice.
I know I've never tasted fresh pressed pineapple juice so I can't wait.
We yielded approximately looks like a good three cups worth of juice from one pineapple.
I know most other juicers aren't that efficient and most other juicers will make a nice foamy
and frothy pineapple juice.
You can see there's very little foam with this juice in this is very clear juice.
It's going to be so delicious.
So I hope you've learned how easy it is to juice fruits in the Welles press.
Once again, we juiced pineapple but you could juice thinks from apples, blueberries, pears,
but you know what you can't juice bananas, even mangoes.
The best way to juice any fruit actually in my opinion is using a press juicer most fruits
in my opinion are better blended instead of juice but if you want to juice fruits then
the press is your best bet.
As you see there are quite a good job, three cups once again of pineapple juice from one
pineapple.
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