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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Why American Brands Are Best In A Healthy Kitchen

By Nick Jaggs

What a bold statement, especially when you consider some areas of American manufacturing today. You only need to look at their automotive industry which now very rarely produces world class cars. Yet in the kitchen for those who follow a raw food lifestyle or who are keen on health and nutrition, American made kitchen equipment is now some of the best in the world.

Any raw foodists or health enthusiast will expect a great deal more from the gadgets that they have in their kitchen compared to the average household. In some cases they may use their juicer also as a kettle. Plus the blender they use will need to be able to cope with more demanding tasks and be used regularly.

As for a dehydrator or food dryer these will be used more than the oven that the person has in their kitchen to ensure that the nutrients found in foods are preserved so providing them with a wide array of nutritious foods to eat. If you are someone who is thinking about buying such equipment to improve one's health and change one's lifestyle there are certain things you need to be take into consideration to ensure that you select the right sorts of kitchen equipment.

Of course value for money is an important consideration especially over the long term. Typically one would expect to pay 2 or 4 times as much for an American made blender, juicer or dehydrator, but over the long term the returns you get from these machines when used in a healthy kitchen makes the most economical. Yes you want equipment that will last but you also want equipment that can tackle more demanding tasks and this is where the American made equipment outshines the normal kitchen appliances one can purchase.

Don't expect the juicer you have at home currently to be able to grind nuts into butter or to produce a sorbet from frozen fruit in an instant. But if you were to purchase the Californian Champion Juicer then it would have no problems getting these tasks completed for you. However, these machines don't come cheap, but when you take into consideration what it is capable of and that this machine is bomb-proof and likely to last a lifetime the price you pay is very reasonable indeed.

As for the blenders you can purchase locally you wouldn't expect these to grind dried chick peas into flour in less than 30 seconds or make vegetables and other fibrous raw greens into a smooth raw soup. If you did, then you are likely to find your blender won't be working within a week, unlike say the American VitaMix or Blendtec versions.

Raw fooders who fail to recognize the above fact in the beginning will end up wasting considerable amounts of money on some normal domestic blenders before they realize that the American ones we mention offer them in the long term better value for money. If you are after versatility and variety where food is concerned a food dehydrator that can create dried snacks and recipes is to be considered. There are many machines available but the Excalibur Dehydrator from California is not only far superior to many other models but it is much larger as well.

As for the Champion Juicer which in its brand logo declares it is the "The World's Finest Juicer" I would have to agree with this statement. The first Champion Juicer I brought has now been given to my son because I decided to replace it with a new black coloured model following the range of colours in the USA being made available in the UK. The juicer my son now has is almost 20 years old, but although it doesn't look as pristine when I first got it, it still works well.

There are other juicers available, but not many that you can say have been used regularly for more than 20 years and still work like they have just come out of the box. Plus this one hasn't been used solely for juicing, it has been regularly used to create healthy fruit ice cream by having frozen bananas and raspberries rammed through it with some considerable force. Over a period of more than 50 years there have been over a million of these juicers sold worldwide. But more would have been sold if like the today's brand managers the producers of this juicer had remembered to use "built in obsolescence" when marketing it. Today the Champion Juicer which comes in four different colours is available in the UK through UK Juicers Limited visit them at www.ukjuicers.com.

Although the Blendtec Total Blender is not readily available in the UK you may have already seen it when it appeared on the "Friday Night With Jonathan Ross" show. Here the machine was put to the ultimate test when Jonathan Ross placed a mobile phone in it and blended it with ease. Along with this demonstration of the food blenders power the manufacturer's website shows several videos where this American food blender actually designed for blending food is used to blend other things including a lava lamp and baseball. These videos may be overstating the power of this over engineered piece of kitchen equipment, but it provides you with the assurance that the money you spend on it will ensure that this piece of equipment won't be troubled by the kinds of tasks raw fooders will expect of this type of kitchen equipment, unlike the normal domestic blenders you can buy.

As for dehydrating this allows you to gently heat food to create some healthy items such as fruit leathers, energy bars, crackers and complete meals that you can take with you when out and about. These machines not only help to ensure that more of the nutrients within the food are preserved but storing them for a lot longer is a lot easier. Aficionados of dehydrators have learnt that the best ones to buy are those that dry the food using horizontal air flow (as a fan oven does). So one should avoid buying the stacking tray types of these machines because as the food is going through the drying process the trays need to be moved around to ensure that everything in them is dried evenly.

The Excalibur Dehydrator which is made in Sacramento, California for more than 30 years now is one of the most reliable on the market today. It comes from a part of the US where seasonal produce is readily available and where people still like to prepare and store foods in their homes for future use using traditional methods. To get hold of the Excalibur Dehydrator and other kinds of American health food machines mentioned they are being imported into the UK by health enthusiasts at UK Juicers.

You may find it a little hard to understand why I as a Brit should be recommending you as a health enthusiast look at purchasing these appliances rather than homemade ones. But for performance and one that will provide long term value you should only be considering these American brands as they will deliver on what you need from them. - 17269

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