How to Make Homemade Orange Juice

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. Here's how to figure out which option is the best for you.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Oranges (2 per 8 oz. serving; Valencia or navel oranges preferred)
• Juicer (preferably a citrus juicer)
• Knife (for slicing)

Juicing

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.

2. 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.

3. 

   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. You put the half of the orange face down on the juicer and rotate it to get the juice out.

4. 

   Mechanical juicers take almost all of the work out of making your own orange juice. You put the juicer on top of a glass and turn it on to get the juice out. The plus is that the mechanical juicers are still compact and fairly cheap.

Tips & Warnings

• Soften the oranges up first by rolling them or squeezing them.
• 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.

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