I had heard of steam juicers but didn’t want to spend the money for one. I decided I needed to test out the concept and make my own. This is one of my improvised juicers. I used a pasta pot for this one and a Presto Canner for the other one.
The Cast:
A pasta pot. The one in the pictures is the a Tramontina model from Wal-Mart. This exact model is no longer made.
A RevereWare bowl that just happens to fit into the pasta basket while allowing the steamer basket to still fit.
Be Aware: Removing the juice bowl can be tricky! There is a lot of steam and hot liquid!
Use the pasta basket to get the juice bowl up out of the water:
The steamer basked goes on next:
How well did your improvised steam juicer work?
They worked well, but digging the juice collecting bowl out while it was hot was a dangerous exercise – that’s why I eventually bought real steam juicers.
Jim
Thanks again for these improvise Juicer posts!
RE Removing the Juice Bowl… In our case, I think it will be well worth drilling small holes, opposite one another, on the juicer rim and fitting a wire bail.
Very inspirational!
Dave,
That would work. Perhaps two wires for stability with that boiling hot juice?
Jim
How much water do you put in a steam juicer?
Al,
Whatever the bottom pan holds. Please make sure it doesn’t boil dry!
Jim