Customer feedback - Juicing as an elixir of life

I bought a juicer and now I don't know where to put my energy!

There are many scientifically backed reasons to start every day with a fresh juice - all I need is a good juicer and some vegetables, or so I thought.

My mind was made up, I was going to be one of those people who start the day with a big glass of freshly squeezed juice every morning and who look great, are almost always in a good mood and do everything else right. You know those people who have overflowing baskets of fruit and vegetables, eat little or no meat, have exotic kitchen appliances at breathtaking prices on their kitchen counters and who almost certainly consume the coveted 100% of all daily recommended vitamins and minerals.

Even though I like to make fun of this type of person inside, there are plenty of legitimate, scientifically backed reasons to do the same. The German Nutrition Society recommends eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, which is not always easy or even achievable for me as a busy person. What's more, fruit and vegetables don't taste quite as good as I would like them to. For geostrategic reasons, I only eat my favourite fruit, strawberries, when they grow in my field around the corner, i.e. only two months a year. The situation is even worse with raw vegetables, which I only eat cooked. That's why my plan was to enrich my diet with super healthy vegetable juices and give my well-being a big boost.

I had already chosen the right vegetables, alternating between pure celery juice and a vegetable juice made from beetroot, carrot, lemon and ginger. I made my choice after a quick search on the internet, as the relevant testimonials simply left no other choice.

So far so good, but now I still need the right juicer. Phew, it's a science in itself to see who is vying for the favour of health-conscious customers. It quickly became clear that it had to be the Ferraris of juicers. The reasons in favour of the so-called slow juicers are obvious; the cheaper centrifugal juicers don't stand a chance against them. So the decision was quickly made. But which of the many slow juicers should it be?

A call to Keimling Naturkost helped me a lot here. Many thanks to the friendly customer service team, who gave me excellent advice.

In the great hope of making my diet healthier and turning back the biological age clock a little, I decided to invest in an appliance that would retain its value, also with the ulterior motive that this machine would still achieve good resale values when the juices come out of my ears one day. The Angel Juicer - a real eye-catcher, with its almost frightening "metre-long" double press rollers in stainless steel look.

This design classic from a seemingly different world was to be my first major investment in a better and healthier life. At the time, I didn't realise that, in retrospect, this would be more like buying fresh vegetables every day. In retrospect, my decision to use Angel Juicer has proved to be a stroke of luck, because with the sensational juice yield, my purchases are much lower than if I had to buy the food for the same amount of juice for a centrifuge or another slow juicer.

My Angel Juicer just doesn't like soft fruit and vegetables at all, but since I've settled on my celery and beetroot juice, everything is fine so far. My deeper motivation and willingness to dig deep into my household budget was, of course, the belief that I would become immortal if I drank such wonderful juice every day.

But let's go back to my decision, why I realised so quickly why it should be a slow juicer. When choosing a good juicer, I first had to choose between the three main types of juicers: Those that use heat, centrifugal juicers and the so-called slow juicers. I ruled out the boiling method from the outset. I mean, heated juices from a tetra pack certainly don't have the same effect as freshly squeezed juices. Centrifugal juicers use fast-rotating blades and sieves that only spin out the juice, enrich it with a lot of oxygen and thus make it less valuable for me as a consumer. Well, better than store-bought pasteurised juice, but still not what I had in mind. Juicers, on the other hand, use a slowly rotating press screw to gently crush the contents and finally squeeze them out. I could also say wringing, like a wet cloth, which I can get almost dry with the "wringing method", as opposed to spinning. Centrifugal juicers often run at 6,000 to 12,000 revolutions per minute, whereas my fishing rod only works at around 90 revolutions per minute. The lower speeds are a great thing in this case. This is because slow juicers do not destroy enzymes and vitamins and generally have a higher juice yield thanks to the "wringing method". In short, a juicer or slow juicer creates a more valuable juice than any other appliance, both in terms of quality and quantity.

So after I had solved these crucial and important questions for myself, the next big stumbling block came - how do I get juicing into my daily morning routine?

What I learnt: Juicing is a practice, a ritual that I had to get into the habit of. It's almost meditative when I get down to it every morning. Incidentally, I've only slowly worked my way up to the subject. For the first month, I only juiced at the weekend to familiarise myself with the machine and everything around it. Because it quickly gave me a very good body feeling, I then switched to daily fresh juice, but more on that later.

I quickly realised that it's even easier if you enjoy juicing with a great machine and really like using it. So far, the best thing about juicing with my Angel is that I can implement my own flavour preferences wonderfully. For example, I initially left the leaves out of the celery stalks as the juice was just too bitter for me. Now I always make sure I get celery with leaves when I go shopping. My taste buds have got used to it and I actually get a lot more nutrients in the juice with leaves. I also enjoy playing with ginger and lemon in my beetroot juice. Depending on my mood and taste, more or less of the spicy tuber ends up in my juices.

I now only peel half of the lemon because the zest, which is also juiced, flavours the juice wonderfully. The mixing ratio between carrot and beetroot has also changed considerably after a short period of familiarisation. I think the interesting thing about the juice is actually the ingredients of the beetroot, which I could only mix in in small quantities at first, otherwise the juice was too earthy for me. Here, too, there was a change and I am now at a mixing ratio of carrot to beetroot of 50:50 and this juice tastes simply amazing to me.

I don't know what else my future life as a juice maker has in store, but at the moment I'm very happy with these two juices in rotation. And after a few days of juicing, I've already noticed the first improvements. I notice that my skin looks much better and, to my great surprise, I can wear my contact lenses again. I had almost written them off as a replacement for my glasses because they became uncomfortable after a short time of wearing them. Since my morning juice routine, they no longer cause any problems at all.

In contrast to the oxidised and sedimented juice from a centrifugal juicer, which I recently "enjoyed" at an invitation, the Angel juice is velvety, smooth, intense and chunk-free. The juicer is also very quiet - I regularly juice before my family wakes up and they have yet to complain about my morning activities. And finally, the stainless steel design with its curves and the user interface on the worktop just looks really good. Curious questions or a request for a demonstration from guests are inevitable.

The biggest misconception about juicers is that they are a pain to clean. I have read, seen and heard various reports about cleaning the Angel Juicerand these are confusing at first, because everything from "it is easy to clean" to "incredibly difficult and cumbersome to clean" is included.

Naturally, I was a little worried that this juicer would take up all my time in the morning. Fortunately, that wasn't the case at all - after use, I simply take the juicer apart, remove the pulp, go over the juicing housing with the sieve scraper and rinse the parts. I measured the time after juicing, and in the end I did it all in about five minutes. The daily repetition creates the decisive advantage that it went a little faster every day in the beginning. It's not rocket science and I really don't know what people are talking about when they say it's incredibly time-consuming. If I take a relaxed approach, I can prepare vegetables, make juice, clean the juicer and then enjoy my wonderful body feeling and the revitalising juice to the full in about half an hour. Much better than my previous breakfast habits of coffee or tea in combination with low-quality white flour products.

I've definitely decided to stick with it and instead of subsidising my illnesses, I'd rather invest in my health. And the investment is worth it, I can actually see that for myself after a few months of drinking juice.

One more thing about the daily juicing routine: as the Angel brings less oxygen into the juice using the slow juice technique, it also keeps much longer. I often juice for 2-3 days in advance, pour the daily ration into a screw-top jar and then enjoy it every day without having to press it fresh every day. The difference to the juice that I drink fresh on the day of pressing and enjoy 2 days later from my screw-top jar is so small that this is a good method if you are short of time. So I would like to recommend it to everyone: Get and stay healthy with fresh juices!