This weekend I created beet juice from scratch. The process was interesting, time consuming, messy and somewhat smelly.
Process
I started by buying beets at Walmart. This would not be my ideal choice for store, but I was there already and they had them. They cost $2.00 per bunch and the bunches had either 3 or 4 beets on them (the lack of standardization was odd). I bought 4 bunches ($8.00 worth for you math buffs).
When I got home I watched a few video online and prepared mentally. After that preparation the video below starts.
Reflections:
It did not take long to actually make the beet juice, as you saw from bunch to juice was only about 2 minutes. However when this was multiplied by the 14 beets I bought and cleanup was included the process too about an hour.
The process was pretty messy. Beets continually secrete a red juice that gets on a lot of things. I didn’t find that the juice stained anything permanently, but I cleaned it up right away, so if you let it sit there may be staining issues.
Results
We got about 20 ounces of juice out of the 14 beets. I removed the jello-ie film off the top of the juice and then transferred it into glass containers for storage. Here is a video of the results:
More videos of the process, for those who like that sort of thing, check out the YouTube playlist:
