When I first met my husband, I was in my last year of college and on a strict grocery budget, surviving on beans, greens, rice, and eggs (plus the odd baked good from my bakery job). The first month we dated, he cooked for me several times, and one thing immediately stood out—he always kept lemons and limes around and used the juice and zest liberally. As a result, his cooking had a bright freshness that made me want to take bite after bite.
Now I can’t imagine my kitchen without the basket of citrus hanging over my chopping block. I rarely go a day without using a lemon or lime to punch up the flavor of a dish as it cooks or add a final burst of flavor once the food is on the plate.
For a long time, I relied on one of those antique glass citrus juicers to get the juice, but they’re clunky (and highly breakable). So it was a major upgrade when I bought one of the popular lever-style juicers, which I used for eight years.
The Lever-Style Juicer I Used to Have
I used that juicer for eight years, turning out batch after batch of lemon cakes, squeezing limes for bottomless summer margaritas, and mixing up my favorite lemony chicken marinade.
I was mostly happy with the juicer, though, thanks to its awkward shape, it was a pain to store. I also found that, at least on the West Coast, lemons tend to be very large. Some are so large that they barely fit in my juicer, and extracting the juice is more difficult, requiring me to put more pressure on the handles to get all the juice out. I even broke a citrus juicer trying to squeeze a giant lemon.
Maybe these small irritations explain why, as I leisurely walked the aisles of my favorite local grocery store, a new kind of citrus juicer got my attention right away. It had an unusual shape—flat instead of rounded—and promised to fit better in a drawer than my old juicer.
I dropped the so-called “fluicer” in my basket impulsively, not suspecting that my old juicer would soon be on its way out.
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A New Kind of Juicer That’s Easier To Store and Better at Juicing
The first time I used the fluicer, I audibly gasped. I halved a giant lemon and stuck one half in the fluicer. I squeezed the handles together gently, and the juice practically poured out, smooth as butter.
A small built-in “pip catcher” neatly collected the lemon seeds, and the shape of the fluicer neatly directed the juice into my measuring cup without any mess. The remains of the lemon were completely stripped of juice, the rind flat as a pancake inside.
The inside is dotted with tiny plastic spikes that not only help hold the rounded side of the citrus in place but also express some of the oils from the citrus peel, which results in especially flavorful juice.
Dreamfarm, the company that sells them, makes three different sizes—for lemons, limes, and oranges. However, the lemon fluicer works perfectly for lemons and limes, and it can tackle smaller oranges with ease as well.
I love my new juicer so much that, even though I haven’t passed my old one on to someone else just yet, I use it exclusively and even bought a second one for my mom. Funny enough, even though the fluicer’s main selling point is that it can easily fit inside a kitchen drawer, I may never test that theory. I keep my most-loved kitchen tools at arm’s length, and it now lives in my citrus basket side by side with the fruit it so expertly juices.
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