141 Cold War

Backstory: After the Apple Cleanser my throat started to hurt. I assumed it was of those wonderful detox properties inherent to cleanses. In addition to having a few friends who do various other detoxes, I've done the Master Cleanse for a few days in the past and have read up a lot on juice fasts: one common occurrence is for people to experience headaches and a general sense of pseudo-illness as the toxins are being released from the body. The sore throat, I thought nothing of it. The next day it was still around and this morning I woke up sounding not my best with what felt suspiciously like dripping sinuses.
I had thought of doing a fun juice with all my ingredients possibly something with the pineapple (though two of my oranges were eaten already along with who knows what else). Instead I look to the index to see what's good for a cold. I end up on Cold War as I have the ingredients and it sounds pretty good.

Initial Thoughts Before Tasting: I love oranges, I love carrot juice and I often eat garlic when I'm sick and have learned to enjoy it. Usually sliced up cloves on a bread slathered with butter: it's one of those things I love to hate but I really love it in this masochistic way.

Ingredients:
4 carrots
1 orange (I peeled it and juiced it with the pith instead of the squeezing method)
1/2 inch (1 cm) ginger root
2 cloves garlic

Thoughts After Tasting: O_o
The smell of the ginger and garlic was a bit overwhelming at first. It's taking me a bit of time to get through one glass and I still have another waiting for me. It seems to taste better as time goes on; that or my taste buds are not taking note of them anymore and the orange is coming through a bit. Not very frothy which is nice. I think I'll stick to making this juice when I'm sick.

Natalie Writes:

"If your chest is feeling congested, you could add half an onion."

I didn't. I'm glad I made that choice. Perhaps in the future I might do that. Thankfully my chest isn't really congested and I fear the onion would have been a bit too much for a first go with this.

Cleaning: Nothing really to note. The filter seemed a bit more clogged (possibly the ginger or garlic?) though the rest was especially easy to clean and there was not much leftover pulp.

Star Rating: 3/5

Notes: Pulp/Froth settles on the bottom very THICK toward the bottom of the glass.

131 Capple Basic

Backstory: I was going to make this and try it side by side with 132 - Orange Carrot but the orange in the kitchen went bad on the inside so it was just a double batch of Capple Basic instead.

Initial Thoughts Before Tasting: Probably won't taste all that different seeing as my parents used to toss in an apple or two when they made carrot juice.

Ingredients:
4 carrots
1 apple

Thoughts After Tasting: The apple tones down the carrot quite nicely and adds a bit of interest to a basic carrot juice. Supposedly really good for energy and I found that I wasn't very hungry after as an added bonus. Tastes inverse to the 002 Apple Basic which I prefered but like this version for the positive effects of carrot on skin. Though I wonder how the star system was created because 129 What's Up Doc? doesn't differ by much (minus 1 carrot and plus one apple) and yet 129 is given 5 stars for skin while this juice, 131 is given 3. The only conclusion I can come up with is that the stars needed to be scaled down to compensate for the increased energy of 5 stars for the Capple Basic.

Natalie Writes:

"... good, basic standby for any morning."

I guess I agree. I'm kind of neutral on this one.

Cleaning: Again, quite a few apple skins and pieces got trapped in the top so the space used for collecting the de-juiced ingredients wasn't used effectively. Standard to clean.

Star Rating: 4/5

002 Apple Basic

Backstory: In an attempt to delve into The Book I decided to take a baby step seeing as I had access to both carrots and a lot of apples in the house. I thought about making just apple juice but wanted the benefit of the carrots.
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Initial Thoughts Before Tasting: I don't mind carrot juice anymore. I know it's slightly sweeter with apples so this increased ration of apples to carrots (than I'm used to) shouldn't be too bad.

Ingredients:
3 apples
2 carrots

Thoughts After Tasting: Quite good. I like the variation.

Natalie Writes:

"This delicious but simple combination is a good way to introduce carrot to your juice repertoire if you're not used to vegetable juices."

Couldn't agree more.

Cleaning: The Apple didn't juice as nicely as the carrot normally does. I left the skin on but cored the apples. During juicing I opened the juicer a few times to take out larger pieces of apple to put them through again.

Star Rating: 4/5

129 What's Up Doc?

Backstory: The good ol' juice that started it all off.

Initial Thoughts Before Tasting: I hope this stuff really does start to clear up my skin and give me that energy it's supposed to. I never paid attention to that before so I'm keeping my eye out for that.

Ingredients:
5 carrots

Thoughts After Tasting: Yum!

Natalie Writes:

"The original basic vegetable juice ... probably the most popular and palatable of all the solo vegetable juices."

Well, I know it tastes good, but what frightens me is the "most palatable" part. I'm a bit worried of all the other vegetables that will have to be juiced soon ...

Cleaning: As per usual, carrots leave behind a lot of de-juiced remains. Strangely enough, it reminds me of a dry sponge.

Star Rating: 4/5