This Arthritis Friendly Citrus Juicer Allows Me To Juice the Living Hell Out of Lemons, Pain Free
I have arthritis, and it mainly affects my hands. I also do a lot of cooking and baking projects that involve juicing lemons. Squeezing a traditional citrus juicer just isn’t going to work for me, so I got a little juicer that only requires you to press on the lemon (or whatever) to juice it. The only problem is, this thing is cheap and doesn’t work that well. I would always end up squeezing the lemon over the reamer bit and twisting it back and forth, and my hands hated it.
I don’t juice enough lemons, or have bad enough dexterity/strength issues to necessitate an electric juicer, but I did need something better than what I was using. I was in Home Goods one day, looking at juicers (and having my hands ache just at the sight of them), and I saw this one from KitchenAid. It has a flat bottom, so you set it on your counter and press on it instead of squeezing it with your poor weak hands.
There are three layers to this juicer: The bottom piece has the flat bottom and also a reservoir and pourer to store and pour your juice. Then the next later is just a little strainer to catch any seeds, and the third/top part is the metal reamer that does the juicing. You can hold this juicer like a regular handheld one, but it really shines when placed on a countertop and you can just lean all your weight on it and get every last BIT of juice out of that lemon. Truly, a lemon half comes out of this thing absolutely pulverized.
The accessibility of this juicer is just chef’s kiss. You can lean on it any way that suits you — you could use a forearm or elbow, you could even use your foot or sit on it or put a heavy book on top and then press on that. You don’t even have to take it apart to pour the juice out, so if that’s not in your realm of capability once your’e done squeezing, you still get the juice.
I thought I had an arthritis friendly citrus juicer, but I had no idea what was possible. The KitchenAid Citrus Juice Press is the stuff of a disabled chef’s dreams.
