In article . com>,
"Michael" > wrote:

> I saw key limes for sale at the Kroger just a couple weeks ago,
> Bob. You've got my curiousity up as to what kind of effect it
> would have on the taste. Hmm... wonder how many it would
> take to get the half cut I need for a pie? A wheelbarrow load?
>
> I'll be down at Key West next week. If I sober up long enough
> to know where I'm at (just kidding), I might try to find some key
> limes.
>
> Michael

Chances are you won't find many homegrown key limes for sale in Key
West. That's because most of the key lime trees were wiped out in
hurricanes years ago. In addition, there's not a whole lot of arable
land in the Keys due to rampant development. The key limes you find in
the grocery stores mostly come from Mexico.

You need a Mexican-style lime juicer to get the maximum amount of juice
out of the key limes. These are the juicers that basically turn the
fruit halves inside out. You'll get arthritis squeezing them with a
conventional juicer.

Cindy

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On Mon 14 Mar 2005 03:31:48p, Cindy Fuller wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> In article . com>,
> "Michael" > wrote:
>
>> I saw key limes for sale at the Kroger just a couple weeks ago,
>> Bob. You've got my curiousity up as to what kind of effect it
>> would have on the taste. Hmm... wonder how many it would
>> take to get the half cut I need for a pie? A wheelbarrow load?
>>
>> I'll be down at Key West next week. If I sober up long enough
>> to know where I'm at (just kidding), I might try to find some key
>> limes.
>>
>> Michael
>
> Chances are you won't find many homegrown key limes for sale in Key
> West. That's because most of the key lime trees were wiped out in
> hurricanes years ago. In addition, there's not a whole lot of arable
> land in the Keys due to rampant development. The key limes you find in
> the grocery stores mostly come from Mexico.
>
> You need a Mexican-style lime juicer to get the maximum amount of juice
> out of the key limes. These are the juicers that basically turn the
> fruit halves inside out. You'll get arthritis squeezing them with a
> conventional juicer.
>
> Cindy
>

I use an electric reamer/juicer that has several different cone sizes. It
works better than anything else I'vde tried.

Wayne

Cindy Fuller wrote:

> Chances are you won't find many homegrown key limes for sale in Key
> West. That's because most of the key lime trees were wiped out in
> hurricanes years ago. In addition, there's not a whole lot of arable

> land in the Keys due to rampant development. The key limes you find
in
> the grocery stores mostly come from Mexico.

Right. One of the few times I found them was at a Wal-Mart at the Lake
of the Ozarks. There were two dozen limes in the bad, they produced
something like a cup of juice as I recall.

> You need a Mexican-style lime juicer to get the maximum amount of
juice
> out of the key limes. These are the juicers that basically turn the
> fruit halves inside out. You'll get arthritis squeezing them with a
> conventional juicer.

I found my squeezer at the local Mexican grocery store.



Brian