"john hamilton" wrote:

>I roughly chopped a raw carrot into about twelve pieces, added a little
>water and put them in my blender (moulinex model 530 which has a 380 watt
>motor).
>
>Was expecting to get a raw carrot juice, but all i got was the undamaged
>lumps of carrot whizzing around.
>
>Do I need to get a different type of blender or am I approaching this the
>wrong way to get raw carrot juice? Thanks for any advice.

With a blender the best you can hope for is carrot puree... you can
attempt to strain out the bits and pieces but that's not really the
way to go. For carrot juice you need a juicer, it separates the pulp
from the juice. Then if you like you can add back some pulp or use
the pulp for quick breads, meat loaf and the like... or just toss it
in the composter.

In my experience it's a whole lot easier and less expensive to simply
buy carrot juice... typically somewhere (ask) in a stupidmarket
refrigerated case.... not long ago I bought a three pack of 1 liter
bottles at Sam's Club; $6, and this was orgnic carrot juice (whatever
that means)... you'd be lucky to get 1 liter of juice with a juicer
from $6 worth of carrots. Even the best quality juicers for home use
are expensive, a pain to clean, are heavy, occupy a lot of storage
space, are noisy, and don't work very well. Actually I don't see the
point to juicing, I much prefer to eat my raw fruit and veggies whole.
The carrot jusic I bought was a first and last time, wasn't really
enjoyable, more medicinal, and don't think vodka would improve it. In
fact I never finished it, dumped 1 bottle and part of another into my
yard (right afterwards I realized the deer probably thought it was a
mean trick). Eating carrot sticks is much tastier... can't eat carrot
juice with onion dip! LOL