How many oranges / L. oj / price?

[RRM]

Also, when an orange is moldy, fruit flies aren't interested in it.

True, except when flesh gets exposed.

[Oscar]

Yes, exactly.

[dime]

I use the versapers to juice them. Takes a lot of bananas (yield is only 40%),

Hmm for me oranges seem to yield only 40% too :(

[RRM]

Huh? Shouldnt that be more?

[Oscar]

Are your oranges 'sweetened' (to avoid using 'ripened') enough?

[dime]

They were pretty soft and quite thin peel.. I'm really puzzled. Maybe my hand juicing is not so good.
What are your experiences, regarding bigger or smaller oranges?

[RRM]

For comparison with other findings in this thread:
How many oranges do you need to get 1 L of OJ?

[dime]

Number of oranges is not the best metric, weight would be much better.
I'll report back when I get my OJ press, right now I'm not really juicing as much as 1L

But to put it in perspective of this thread, 2 oranges weighing 414g produced 176g OJ. So that means 11.4 medium-small oranges (or 2.35kg) for 1L

[Oscar]

Sounds normal to me, but then I never weigh my oranges.

[RRM]

Ah, you are including the peel, i think.
In my banana example, i didnt; so 40% juice vs 60% pulp.

[dime]

Ah ok, then it make sense, otherwise I thought I'm really doing something wrong :D

[overkees]

I get a crate of oranges for 14 euros, it's weight is between 15 and 17 kg and I have been tracking how much juice I am making because I'm trying to find out all of my monthly expenses. After 2-3 crates I'm at 1.64 Euros/L. I'm very happy with this result.

2kg oranges give me a little more than 1 L of juice, like 1.20 on avg. I don't strain it, because my citrus juicer does a very good job at getting everything out (solis press) and if I've got a lot pulp, I let it run through the versapers.

[dime]

You're getting those oranges really cheap! I'm thinking to order 45kg from amazon at 1.5eur/kg, so that would give me like 3eur/L OJ.. 2x more expensive.

[dime]

I got my juicer; 2kg oranges give me around 1.1L OJ, which means 3eur/L for OJ.