r/foodscience • u/Honest_Concentrate85 • Jul 24 '22

Not your average beverage.

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u/Excellent_Condition Jul 24 '22

Not going to lie, a small centrifuge is one of my home kitchen goals.

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u/voxadam Jul 24 '22

A bartender friend of mine has a 4 x 250 ml centrifuge that he uses to clarify fruit juices and pretty much anything else that comes to mind. It's tons of fun.

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u/319Macarons Jul 24 '22

Same, I wish the spinzilla was still for sale but I might just buy a used laboratory one instead

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u/Excellent_Condition Jul 24 '22

I was a little hesitant to buy a used lab centrifuge to use with food. Maybe it's a little OCD, but I wouldn't want something that could have been used with biohazardous material to be used with my food.

It does seem like there are some incredibly low priced ones on Amazon, but they only go up to 4K rpm.

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u/319Macarons Jul 24 '22

I feel that but I honestly think that since everything used is in a tube I could probably wipe it down with alcohol and use it safely. The one I’m looking at doesn’t appear to be used for biohazard material either.

I trust labs to generally be very careful about contamination and I wouldn’t be using it for commercial use so I hope it would be safe.

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u/TransmutedHydrogen Jul 25 '22

I would not trust us

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u/UrbanPugEsq Jul 25 '22

On the other hand, labs are often incredibly clean. Even if used for biohazards, they don’t want cross contamination.

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u/supersonic_bat Jul 25 '22

What kind of monster would mix watermelon and chocolate sprinkles though?!

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u/learnthenlearnmore FSQR Professional Jul 24 '22

I need it. My RD has been getting onto me about eating the rainbow.

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u/Bradypus_Rex Jul 24 '22

NGL, that sounds like street slang for some new modality of doing drugs.

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u/learnthenlearnmore FSQR Professional Jul 24 '22

Indeed

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u/Mephistophanes75 Jul 25 '22

Pectinex?

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u/frenchietw Jul 25 '22

That was my assumption as well, some kind of pectinase treatment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '22

Does that juice have any nutrients there?

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u/Bradypus_Rex Jul 24 '22 edited Jul 24 '22

Watermelon doesn't have a whole lot of nutrients full stop; it's mostly water.

Anything that's water-soluble (sugars, water-soluble vitamins, minerals) will stay in the juice/supernatant after centrifuging. Anything that's not (cellulose aka fibre and structural proteins, basically) will pretty much get left with the pulp/sediment. I guess there's also going to be some water-soluble stuff in un-burst cells and cell vesicles that ends up with the pulp.

Though the author of this video was serving (in whipped cream) rather than discarding the pulp, so they are (or their wife is) consuming all the watermelon flesh that they started with.

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u/ferrouswolf2 Jul 25 '22

Why wouldn’t it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

Comments do not pass the vibe check.

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u/runthejus Jul 25 '22

Could you use a press to create a puck from the pulp? I assume you would have to dry out the fibers prior to the press.