Juicing Lemons for Lemon Mousse

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we're going to juice the lemons. You can juice the lemons many ways, I'll show you how to juice them by hand and I'll show you a couple of apparatuses that you can buy and use to juice lemons. First cut the lemons in half, you'll need to do that for anything. If you're juicing by hand, you take a fork and you stick into the center of the lemon and squeeze the lemon while wiggling the fork back and forth and that will get a lot of juice out of that lemon. Also you'll end up with the seeds and the pulp, so we'll be straining it. Just put it right into the center and wiggle and then you can put it in again and change the direction and squeeze rather hard and wiggle the fork back and forth at the same time. Now these electric juicers, will strain the juice with the strainer after it juices it and the liquid will come out here and that you just press firmly on the juicer and as it spins it juices the lemon and the lemon juice comes out all strained out here. You can wiggle that around on the top to get as much as the juice out as possible. Now this type is a big heavy one for juicing all kinds of citrus and this one will also juice a pomegranate. You just put the lemon inside the juicer and I tighten up my wingnut back here and squeeze that down, uses a leverage to squeeze all the juice out of that lemon. This one also has a strainer, so the seeds are caught in the strainer and that's juiced that way. So go ahead and juice your lemons and get 1 cup of lemon juice."