This is two pomegranates. Nearly 1 quart. The red seeds are actually "arils." The hard tiny seeds are inside the squishy red arils. They are a major pain in the beau-tox to prepare for this machine. Commercial processors cut them in half and smash them as oranges. But for this machine they must be picked through, all the white membrane inside picked out. It is sort of like corn on the cob except looser than that and organized differently. It's like wet red corn inside a brain, except squishier.
The blackberries are frozen. Their juice is ice. No juice comes out the spout, it all processes through the pulp chute. So I caught it in my hand and placed it into the juice receptacle. That's why it's floating. Then the whole thing was strained with a regular strainer.
I'm telling you, no matter what I do it turns out delicious. This one especially so because the three elements are great tasting individually. Together they're spectacular. The green kiwi throws off the color a bit but not too badly. Even celery would work for this one. So would ginger.
I could have used apple, bok choy, carrots, blueberries, strawberries, pineapple, even purple cabbage and all of those things would taste and look fantastic.
I could have used spinach, lettuce, kale in moderation, but the color would be quite dull.
I might try bean sprouts. What the heck. Why not? I'll go to the Asian market and pick up a whole trolly of all the weird things they have; persimmons, coconut, Asian eggplant, fresh water chestnut, bamboo, napa cabbage, daikon, amaranth, Thai basil, kabocha, burdock root, edamame, shiso, nagaimo mountain yam, myoga flowering buds, mitsuba japanese parsley. There is a whole world of bizarre things over there.
6 second video. I couldn't find the stabilizer on YouTube. Next time I'll use a tripod and remote shutter control. I really do need to feed the machine as it runs or else the action stops.
This thing is fun. And it's rewarding. I've got my cleanup act down. The pieces need to be rinsed out immediately each time. It's very easy to disassemble. There are only a few parts.
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Fill a large mixing bowl 2/3- 3/4 full of water and pluck your pomegranate under the water. The arils sink and the pith floats. And you don't spray red juice all over yourself and your kitchen.
The chefs open them up and tap the skin with a heavy spoon, but they don't have to pay for all of the arils that don't pop out.
Thanks for the helpful hints.
I just now saw on Costco $9.79 for 16 oz pomegranate arils.
I think that's the amount from 1 pomegranate. But I'm not sure.
A pomegranate cost $2.50.
I bet that 16oz is by volume. Probably a couple of poms worth.
I used 2 for this juice, and it almost filled a 1 qt container.
But I don't know about dry weight vs liquid weight.
The arils are very wet. But the pomegranates don't feel that heavy.
Basically, 1 pomegranate juices about one 16 oz container.
Those three plastic jars shown are 16 oz containers.
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