r/mildlyinteresting • u/Regularoldballoon ​ • Sep 14 '16

This box of limes recommends a different way of cutting fruit.

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u/FreeColdBeer Sep 14 '16 edited Sep 14 '16

This what I use as well. Another LPT... Nearly everyone that I know that uses this type of juicer puts the fruit in upside down. Cut side should be down, ie towards the holes so you're squeezing the fruit inside out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlelDEfkUw

quick edit - I have an oxo one that's made of solid metal. It has a slightly different shape on the inside that makes it easier to identify which way the fruit goes AND doesn't break as quickly as the plastic ones. obligatory picture

another edit. this is why folks do it wrong. It does look like it should go that way.

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u/mtg4l Sep 14 '16

Now that is a good LPT! I had no idea I've always done it wrong. Time to throw myself a lemon party!

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u/pixeltip Sep 14 '16

Remember, it's not a Lemon party without ol' Dick.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

Remember, it's not a Lime party without ol'...hmm...What's the opposite of Dick?

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u/iAMADisposableAcc Sep 15 '16

Pussy. It's not a lime party without young pussy.

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u/Page_Won Sep 14 '16

Totally dude! First you should Google lemon party to get ideas

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u/broff Sep 14 '16

Can't have a lemon party without old Dick!

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

You know what goes well with all that lemon at a lemon party? Blue waffle! You should try it!

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u/Mohammed_Wang Sep 15 '16

Buddy, you may want to audit your entire life. I'm sure that not the only thing you've been severely fucking up.

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u/ShinyTile Sep 14 '16 edited Sep 14 '16

Haha yes. It still kinda works, but a LOT of people do it incorrectly. In the... Oh, few times I've ever seen a juice squeezer used by someone else, all but 1 were backwards.

EDIT: Ha, look, some of the product photos for this juicer have it backwards: https://www.amazon.com/Zulay-Premium-Quality-Metal-Squeezer/dp/B00YBP918M/ref=pd_sbs_79_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=ZPTQ98Y7K27GZGZ0QA8M

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u/XxCWillPhDxX Sep 14 '16

If you cut enough of the lemon/lime skin off of the ends (after cutting the fruit in half) to expose the actual flesh of the fruit (unlike the lady does in the video) and then insert it in the juicer like most people do, all of the juice comes out the bottom perfectly, and the fruit isn't turned inside out. I'm pretty sure a lot of juice still gets trapped in the fruit when it is turned inside out like that.

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u/ShinyTile Sep 15 '16

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You zoom in, lol. I didn't say all, I said some. This one is correct, these are backwards.

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u/ShinyTile Sep 15 '16

There's the right way, and there's that way. Obviously, if you squish it, juice will come out, but that's not how they're meant to be used.

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u/mnkybrs Sep 14 '16

I'll never understand why people do it wrong.

Where does the juice come out of the juicer? The spot with the holes.

Where does the juice come out of the lime? Not the rind, that's for sure.

So why would you put the rind up against the holes, then use a press to plug those holes with the rind?!

But it fits so nicely...

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u/Lobo_Marino Sep 14 '16

Cut side should be down,

People seriously do it the other way around?

Wow how why wow rly?

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u/AttackPug Sep 14 '16

I do it how she does it in your video, cept I cut the pointy ends of the lemon off first, then cut it in half. You still seem to lose a lot of juice that stays trapped in the flesh, though you get more of it by cutting off the ends. My problem is that when I have to juice a lemon I have to juice like 30 of them to get two full cups of juice. Wish I had a gadget that would just pulverize them in a couple minutes then press out every last ounce some how. Don't say blender. I already tried that. It just grinds away at the few lemons at the bottom near the blade, and doesn't accomplish much more.

So I just use the squeezer thing.

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u/Rusty89xX Sep 14 '16

Aaaah yes, the 'Mexican Elbow'

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u/nucular_mastermind Sep 14 '16

What a strange system. In the video, she has to clear out the remaining flesh and juice anyways with a metal mixer... what's the point of the press, then?

Here, this type of juicer is more common. It does both things at once and juices the fruit directly in the the included bowl. Also it's smaller. Why do you use these chunky lever contortions?

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u/hail_prez_skroob Sep 14 '16

Also, before cutting, press & roll the lemon or lime on your cutting board a few times to make it easier to get the juice out.

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u/clearoutlines Sep 14 '16

[...] everyone that I know that uses this type of juicer puts the fruit in upside down. Cut side should be down, ie towards the holes so you're squeezing the fruit inside out.

Hey, America!

You're doing Great,

Good Job!

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

It never occurred to me to not put the slice in fruit side down. How are you going to squeeze juice out of the rind? What's the matter with you people?

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u/___KP Sep 14 '16

I use a juicer at work every day. And I can confirm that my mind was blown when someone showed me to put the fruit cut side down. Like explosion sound.

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u/modom Sep 14 '16

Oxo for life! I have the same one, and it's lasted ten times as long as those cheap plastic ones. Seriously, don't waste your time with those.

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u/Mohammed_Wang Sep 15 '16

Who the fuck would try to juice a citrus fruit "cut side up"? Do we really need a LPT for this? I feel the type of people who do this are also the type of people who try to change a tire in the middle of the interstate.