can you put chopped carrots in a blender and expect to get them the proper consistency of juice?

Question

i have a recipe for a juice with carrot and celery in it, and i dont want to go out and buy a juicer because a) they are kind of expensive, and b) blending foods retains the fiber. the blender i have is a cuisinart smart power duet, the blades are in pretty good shape.

Answer 1

No, a blender won't liquidize your carrots. You will need to buy some carrot juice, which is much cheaper than a juicer.

Answer 2

Depending on the strength of the blender, you'll either get finely chopped carrots or puree. (Read: mush.) The point of a juicer is that it extracts the juice from the rest of the carrot. The result is juice and the left-over dry material, mostly fiber.

You may be able to approximate the taste by adding some liquid to the recipe and blending it until the carrots are pureed. Or, if your blender does do a decent job of pureeing, you can drain the liquid from the pulpy mass through a fine strainer or cheesecloth. However, there will be a lot of waste and you won't get nearly the volume of pure juice that way.

But you won't get the same texture without the juicer. You'll be swallowing a lot of pulp that you wouldn't get if you hadn't used a blender.

Answer 3

Whats a Cuisinart? Well with a regular blender and the proper setting you can end up with juice but it takes lots of carrots and you'd
need to fill your blender 3 or 4 times to get enough juice from the carrots! It's an all day job!
Bolthouse Farms has carrot juice not too costly www.bitenile.com

Answer 4

No you're only going to get finely chopped carrots, even if you add water.

You say you don't want to use a juicer because blending food retains the fibre. Well, why not use a juicer and then incorporate what's left over after juicing into a soup or stew? That way you get the juice and you get the fibre.

Answer 5

If you put carrots in your blender you're going to get... more finely chopped carrots, and nothing particularly close to juice. If you make juice on a regular basis, you may want to just bite the bullet and buy at least a low-end juicer. If you want something that does a bit more than just juices, you can buy a mixer (like kitchenmaid's) that you can apply helpful attachments to, like a juicing attachment, sausage stuffer, etc.
Or if this is a one time thing and you don't make juice recipes regularly, just hit your local health food store and buy the required juices for your recipe.

Answer 6

i think you have to add some sort of liquid to it like water. maybe you should refrain from trying because what if it screws up your blender?

Answer 7

You have to add water to it for it to come out right, just add a little at a time until you think it looks right.

Answer 8

Try it and see what happens . . . report back so we'll all know.