What does a masticating juicer do?
First, what is a masticating juicer? Masticating is the scientific term for chewing – yes, we masticate every time we eat eat. So a masticating juicer is a juicer that chews. How does it chew? Not quite with teeth and jaws, but with a grinding and crushing action, that achieves a similar result. The actual mechanism in one of these machines looks like a large screw, or auger, that turns inside a cone shaped sieve, or mesh screen. As the auger slowly turns, it continually forces the ingredients through the small holes in the screen, which squeezes out the juice in fruits and vegetables. The difference between a masticating juicer and the more common upright juicers you see in kitchenware stores is this slow, crushing action. Higher speed juicers (they are often called centrifugal juicers) work by shredding up the ingredients in a fast spinning barrel, sort of like a cheese grater. These centrifugal machines are definitely faster – so why doesn’t everyone buy those? Surely faster is bett
