Juicer question.

[Dustylynne]

Just curious, but can you use a juicer to extract the juice from grapes (or any other fruit) to make wine?

 

[Runningwolf]

Hello and welcome to the forum. A juice extractor is not recommened for making wine. You would end up with a bitter taste from the seeds and skins.

 

[Torch404]

They can work great on fruit without seeds. I find as long as the skin get broken and there is enough pectin enzyme the yeast break most stuff down pretty well.

 

[Tom]

When we talk about juicers we are talking about Steam Juicers. Like Dan said a regular juicer will grind up seeds and woll leave a bad taste in wine.

 

[DavidB]

I purchased one of the Jack LaLanne juicers for $100 bucks for this purpose and after 4 uses on various fruits, I can't recommend it. You can't process the fruit without it leaking all over the counter top, getting stopped up and spitting half processed fruit out the spout. I spend more time unstopping it and cleaning up than I do processing the fruit. Total waste of money but if you insist on buying one, I've got one to sell!

If you have no worries about the seeds issue (which is a matter of taste anyway) I would recommend you use a high quality blender. But, even that comes at a price. So far, I have burned up two of them processing various stuff. I guess I'm just hard on electronics or something....

 

[Tom]

Get a Steam Juicer..

 

[BobF]

Get a Steam Juicer..

I couldn't have said it better my self!!

 

[Ken914]

My name is Ken and I'm a steam juicer addict.

I've steamed-juiced pears, peaches, blueberries, and strawberries - all with fantastic success.

I tried to steam-juice white raisins, but that didn't work out the way I expected. However, they got all plump and full and I think that helped them ferment out... so I count that as a success too!

 

[sbrad701]

I have used both types and have to say that the steam juicer is the real deal. I have only done plum and watermelon in the Jack Lalanne juicer. Worked well but I have since bought the steam juicer and refuse to look back.