I have good news to report. Firstly we have had three days of glorious blue skies and winter sunshine. One’s mood is dramatically enhanced by such meteorological munificence. Secondly, celery juice tastes a whole lot less disgusting after a few days. It’s still too early to know if it’s really having any effect on Tiggy’s acne but the early signs are quite promising. The need for a daily dose of juice has thrown up an interesting problem, however. Mrs T thoughtfully got rid of our juicer a while back, as we “never used it”. Since when has that been a good reason for getting rid of anything? She also threw out all three of my rather attractive cake slices. Now, on the not infrequent occasions when we have guests to afternoon tea I have to use a knife to serve up her delicious fruit cake. No class.
To date, I have been using our powerful Nutri Bullet to convert the celery stalks into a pulp and then use a sieve in a fairly labour intensive manner to produce as much of the skin enhancing liquid as possible. It’s both a cumbersome and somewhat tedious procedure. (Note to self…we are out of celery!) Various friends, including my wife (and yes, I do count her as a friend) have suggested that I should go out and buy a cheap juicer; “don’t spend much money on it, there are lots of perfectly good cheap ones out there”. Oh yes? I have spent a considerable amount of time visiting Lakeland, Go Cook and various other high class kitchen utensil emporia only to find that they either don’t supply juicers at all, or in Lakeland’s case their cheapest (in fact only) one is over £300; not cheap by any measure.
Surely the internet/Amazon would throw up plenty of offers. A very expert website designed to tell you everything you need to know about every style of juicer (and there are at least half a dozen varieties) recommends the Best in Each Class. Needless to say there was nothing under about £300 here. Is £150 cheap? So far I haven’t managed to find anything for much less that wouldn’t catch fire and disintegrate within five minutes of using it. Alison took up the challenge. As the proud owner of a lovely Kitchen Aid mixer (a present from her ever-loving hubby) I guess it was almost inevitable that her best suggestion was to buy a Kitchen Aid add-on that looks like a mock-up of Sputnik and the Space Station combined and will apparently meet all my needs and more….for a mere £120. This was the woman who had originally advised me “for heavens sake don’t get anything expensive, just a simple, cheap juicer”. I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that I will be stuck with the Nutri Bullet and sieve, which has the merit of being very easy to use and even easier to clean. My only concern is that the venerable Bullet is starting to smell a bit when on full steam and is making an increasingly weird noise. I was slightly concerned to learn in Lakeland that they have apparently stopped making them. Is there a major design flaw that only manifests itself after three hundred hours of operation?
With all the health fads that are being promoted nowadays, most of which incorporate juicing of something at some point, you would think this would be an instantly solvable problem. Ha….it would be easier to buy a Tesla, if slightly more expensive. On the subject of which, why didn’t I buy some Tesla shares in 2013 when I saw those beautiful cars popping up all over Hong Kong, before anyone realised that Elon Musk wasn’t the latest variety of Chanel perfume? The shares have gone up 3,000% since. Even £100 invested then would have allowed me to buy a top of the range juicer now without a second thought. Oh well.
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