/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18846151
its because the indelicate method for mass manufacturing orange juice is to
1. take the shittiest oranges you can buy
2. throw them peel, pith, and all into a machine
3. grind and strain
This is why the juice is opaque. If you peel an orange and juice it at home, it will be translucent. Its really nothing to do with the fact that it's concentrated. you can buy nicer orange juice for like $15 a gallon made from decent oranges that have, to some extent, had the peel and pith removed. It's a bit harder to find and might not be available at every grocery store.

>>18846164
i see, i didnt consider that

that aside, no, i juice oranges, theyre not really translucent?

All juice concentrates are pasteurized, because the concentration process involves warming it to a bacteria-friendly temperature under vacuum to evaporate water content. So it has effectively been cooked for a while, and I guess you don't like the way that alters the flavor. I don't mind it.

>>18846175
You do know what translucent means right?

>>18846203
i do, the home squeezed stuff is not much more translucent than this

>>18846175
let it sit for an hour at it will become transparent

>>18846212
so its not transparent yet then, is it?

>>18846164
Ah so it's the skin that makes orange juice so shit.

tastes good to me, maybe youre imagining it

>>18846217
Well, also the low quality oranges and pasteurization. In my opinion, the pasteurization is the most minor negative factor.

Shitty oranges are literally sold as "juicer oranges". This includes oranges that have blemishes, but also dry-cell oranges and other serious quality deficiencies. FYI a dry-cell orange is basically like a mutant orange that has like 10000% as much pulp and 10% as much juice as it should. They are nearly inedible.

>>18846240
tl;dr

>>18846402
I counted the words... only 70...

can you read? do you have trouble reading bro? I can put you in contact with some people who can help you.

I'm not joking.

>>18846411
Tl;dr again

Honestly just juice your own, I can't stand store bought juice now. I juice clementines and it's the best orange juice I've ever had

>>18846473
good luck in the future, illiterate bro!

people like you can live quite nice lives these days, or so I'm told.

>>18846151
They dont add as much water back as they take away.

>>18846151
>genuinely what gets lost when you dehydrate that shit?
juice.

>>18846501
That sounds better than orange juice actually, a clementine has almost a berry-like juice. Inb4 GMO big clementines

>>18846508
He probably works for the juice industry and wants people to disregard the dry cell oranges instead of hiring an inspector

>>18846151
I know what you mean OP but I don't mind the stuff from concentrate, it's a completely different flavour. Fresh juice is certainly sweeter, it also has a subtle bitterness to it that gives it some depth, and has that zesty orange aroma. Juice from concentrate has more of that pure citrus tang. I'll usually go for fresh but it depends what mood I'm in.

>>18846240
I've had those drycell asshole oranges before. REALLY pisses me off when I have to play theblottery with my oranges. They are so unsatisfying compared to a proper l'orangez.