Another Kitchen Gadget You Don’t Need

That’s right.  There’s another kitchen item that you don’t need.

(Now there’s a start that could lead to thousands of devices.  Automated orange peeler, anyone?)

Well this time, the useless kitchen gizmo just happens to be one that I have:

I bought this hand-held juicer with a yellow handle years ago.  The spoon comes with the tire house.

We moved to Germany, and I had every intention of buying another little juicer there.  But I couldn’t find one.

To make matters worse, the weather was sunny and warm.  I just wanted a cold glass of lemonade.  But they don’t have that, either.

So I jumped on my bike and headed down the cobblestone roads to the grocery store.  I fell in love with making homemade lemonade (it’s soooo easy with that recipe).  I also figured out how to use a spoon to squeeze out the lemon juice.

In fact, a spoon works better than that special little hand-held juicer. You use it in the exact same way, scrapping the spoon along the inside of your fruit’s peel over a bowl that catches the juice.

Did you know that?

The simplicity of using a spoon for juicing is a lot like the gadget-free salad spinner we adore at our house – sometimes it’s the sort of trick that you just know. And sometimes, you just don’t.

So the only question now is:  who wants that plastic juicer sitting on my counter?