I bought 10 navel oranges from the produce stand a little while ago to see how much juice I could make out of them. Since tomorrow is garbage and organic recycling pick-up day, I thought I’d choose tonight to make my pile o’ rinds. And what a pile it was! I added it to the big bag of melon carcasses I stashed in the fridge until I could dispose of them (so they don’t attract the raccoons behind the house), and marvelled at how much one person could generate SO MUCH RIND.
I sliced… and sliced… and sliced… and sliced… and finally blended until I got a frothy orange cloud of pulp and juice. It’s a good thing I *like* pulp, because there was enough to, uh, make a bottle of Metamucil? The pulp was incredibly filling and the juice tasted great because it wasn’t sweet and concentrated like store-bought orange juice.
It was a lot of work and washing-up for about a half-litre of juice (I used lots of water in the blending process), but in the end it’s cheaper than buying orange juice and is probably healthier. Maybe a weekly project? I thought about buying a juicer recently, but they’re expensive with more parts to clean. The problem with making a big batch is I’d have to drink it right away, I can’t store it. Hmmm.
