Who among us does not like to drink a glass of tomato juice at dinner? And this juice will be not only tasty, but also useful if you cook it yourself with tomatoes grown on your personal bed. In addition to direct consumption in food, homemade tomato juice can be used as a sauce when making various vegetable preparations for the winter. And in order to process tomatoes for juice, what has been called "in one go" will have to acquire a special electric juicer for tomatoes. More details about what they are and how they differ from each other, you can learn from our article.
Is an electric juicer for tomatoes auger or centrifugal?
Speaking of electric juicers for tomato, the most often refer to screw models of juicers, whether vertical or horizontal. Why is it so? Is it not possible to process tomatoes into a tasty and healthy juice in a centrifugal electric juicer?
To understand this, let's consider in more detail the operating principle of each of the types of electro-juicers:
- Let's start with a screw juicer . A thick screw-shaped rod - the auger grasps tomatoes in small portions and pushes them through a grid with small holes. The juice that separates as a result of this flows down a special chute into the substituted container, and the compacted and practically dry residues (cake) are spontaneously removed as they accumulate from the other end of the juicer's working chamber. In this case, the maximum processing of tomatoes is obtained, since screw juicers, in the presence of a sufficiently fine mesh, are able to grind even tomato seeds.
- In the centrifugal juicer, the juice is separated from the pulp as a result of friction against the rotating grater. At the same time, the percentage of juice separation is very low, and the grid with an enviable regularity is packed with tomato skins. Therefore, the centrifugal juicer has to be stopped from time to time in order to clean the grater and remove the cake.
As we see from the above, processing tomatoes for juice in juice extractors of centrifugal type is quite a busy occupation. That's why to get juice from tomatoes it is better to use screw electric juicers.
In addition to the simplicity of obtaining tomato juice, the virtues of a screw juicer can be attributed to the fact that they are easy to disassemble and wash, and also that they do not take up much space in the kitchen.
Depending on the manufacturer, screw electric juicers may differ from each other in the following parameters:
- overall dimensions and weight;
- electric motor power;
- screw speed;
- number (1 or 2) and method of installation (horizontal or vertical) of the screws;
- body material (steel, plastic);
- the size of the receptacle for bookmarking vegetables.
Meat grinder with juice extractor for tomatoes
Happy owners of electric meat grinders can significantly facilitate their own lives by purchasing special juicer attachments. This opportunity was provided in many models by almost all manufacturers of household appliances. But in this case there are also pitfalls. One of them is that the tomatoes will have to be cut rather finely, because the inlet of the electric meat grinder usually has a small diameter. Secondly, not every meat grinder will easily survive long-term operation in the dual load mode. Thirdly, if the electric motor fails, the owner will simultaneously lose two kitchen helpers at once: mincers, and juicers.