How to Make Homemade Orange Juice

No matter how you extract it, fresh orange juice comes from the same source.

Want to make your own homemade orange juice? With plenty of types of fruit and citrus juicers to choose from, there are more options than you could imagine. Some make you squeeze; some do the work for you. It's your choice.

Things You'll Need

• Oranges
• Juicer (preferably a citrus juicer)
• Knife

Instructions

1. Roll the oranges or squeeze them in the palm of your hand. By doing this, you will get the juices moving around and the orange will give more juice. Next, cut the oranges in halves. For most types of juicers, you will put half of the orange on a dull blade and move it around to extract the juice.

2. Put the half of the orange face down on the juicer and rotate the orange half by hand to get the juice out if you use a manual juicer. Manual juicers are fairly old as technology makes the job even easier for you. But these things still get the job done, and are a lot cheaper.

3. Put a mechanical juicer on top of a glass and turn it on to get the juice out for a more mechanized option. Some juicers let you press your orange half onto a rotating spindle, and the juice drains into a receptacle from there. Mechanical juicers take almost all of the work out of making your own orange juice. The plus is that the mechanical juicers are still compact and fairly cheap.

Tips & Warnings

• Always make sure to soften the oranges up first by rolling them or squeezing them first.

• If you don't use a juicer and instead opt to use a blender, the liquid you get will be a frothy, pulpy mixture that will not really resemble orange juice.