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Default getting juice from key limes

On Friday, July 6, 2012 9:53:12 PM UTC-7, sf wrote:
> On 7 Jul 2012 04:28:34 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>
> > On 2012-07-07, Malcom "Mal" Reynolds > wrote:
> > > friend wanted to make something that used key lime juice and ended up buying a
> > > bag of the little suckers. juicing them was tedious and difficult for her. is

> >
> > http://store.gourmetsleuth.com/key-l...xican-P99.aspx
> >
> >

> Mal, I feel your pain - BTDT with key limes... I like the idea of the
> "juicer" nb posted, but AFAIC it would not have worked on the key
> limes I juiced and probably not yours either. Limes (regular or Key)
> just aren't very juicy these days unless they come off a tree in the
> backyard... even microwaving them for a few seconds doesn't improve
> the juiciness factor. Sad, but true. They're picked too green....
> and I don't know why.


We nuke them AND roll them, then rotate on a small ceramic juicer.

In terms of squeezers we had one of these growing up:

http://www.awesomedrinks.com/images/...t_squeezer.jpg