The thing is, this looks like a really delicious drink.
I'm hooked on the juice from the Fresh Juice Company half a block from my home. I could go there everyday. Too bad it's so expensive. The last few trips I buy 4 X 16 oz drinks, that honestly can be swigged in one long open-throat pour as college kids do with beer at backyard parties. Like this:
glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-ahhhhhhhhhh.
But that will have you flying to the bathroom with tremendous urgency within thirty minutes because your body is not used to gigantic rush of nutrients. Your body is all what? what? what? what? woooooosh.
As a cleanse.
Odd, the grossest thing possible is called cleanse.
We should call cleanse "alarming evacuative mess" because on the outside that's what it is.
That's what happens when you slam 16 oz of pure vegetable juice.
So for now, I sip them. Throughout the day. So that alarming evacuative mess doesn't happen. And every time I open the refrigerator door to scrounge for something to graze, anything, those colorful containers of vegetable juice are always the most appealing. They win every time. Oh, hello. Sip.
I'm glad I discovered this. This is 2,000% improvement over Coca-Cola, 1500% improvement over dissolvable supplement vegetable tablets.
But expensive as hell. I was mistaken, they're actually $8.00 each, 50¢ per oz. Maybe that's not so bad but it's amounting to $32.00 every two days and whole bunch of empty 16 oz containers. I might as well make them myself.
Not bad.
She doesn't have enough vegetables. But that maxes out her blender. She started with water so her blend is pre-diluted. She must squeeze out the pulp to get the last drop. And she still comes up short. That's not enough juice for the effort. She needs 4X that much vegetables for the effort to be worthwhile. To have a second bottle for later.
And even then I'd be disinclined to bother.
John Kohler tells the whole story each time. We don't need the sales pitch. Personable and amusing as he is, watched best with speed increased to maximum and skipped to 29:00. I'm not kidding. Using his juicer method now you have two containers to clean and the machine. And three 16 oz contaniers worth of juice. Plenty for later. You used a pile of vegetables of your choice.
He wisely added pepper for the turmeric. He sweetened his cabbage with apple. I guarantee you if you drank the whole glass you'd experience alarming evacuative mess within minutes. I have no idea how long it takes to build up to John Kohler-level tolerance.
John will tell you the blender method whips air into the mixture. Rotating at 10,000 RPMs each vegetable particle is processed multiple times whirling around in there. The air whipped in contains oxygen so the blender oxygenates the mixture, and that's bad.
The slow type of juicer rotates 48-80 RPMs depending on type, and smashes the juice out by brute force. The pulp it produces is dry. Each vegetable particle is processed once. It does not oxygenate the juice. That's what he would say if we listened.
The blender can do other things. The juicer is basically unitasker. Although some can make peanut butter.
Both of these drinks are delicious. Detox, weight loss, whatever, both of these drinks are incredibly healthy. By a magnitude they outdo your vegetable requirements that you're not meeting. And you can tell that by the pile of vegetable material John processed. Imagine doing that every day. You'd be spending a lot of time in the produce section over time developing new recipes for yourself based on the things that you like.
Incidentally, yesterday I was looking at videos of growing mushrooms and to my delighted surprise recognized John Kohler right off in the San Francisco market. He is doing this same sales pitch for mushroom growing kits. They look like a lot of fun.
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