In India, you get a whole car for $2295. So at $2295.00, plus shipping, the NORWALK JUICER had better be glorious and wonderful.

Well it is glorious and wonderful in the most important way: It is hydraulic. And hydraulic juicing delivers by far the best quality juice and also the most-juice-per-vegetable. The Norwalk is also glorious and wonderful in that it exists. It is apparently the only home- or juice-bar-sized electric hydraulic juicer on the market (someone correct me if I am wrong, please), so the Norwalk’s continued existence is important.

But The Norwalk Juicer it is not glorious and wonderful in its pricing, which is insane, and isolates it as a product principally for a small number of wealthy people.

Nor is it wonderful in its ergonomics, which are primitive. This is a piece of 1930s technology, a challenge to operate and to clean. Big. Heavy. Industrial. Ugly. Oh man, is it ugly. Particularly the one with the woodgrain sticker.

But if you’ve got the money and the time to invest in your juicing, you can’t do better than a Norwalk. Wish you could...but you can’t.

I’m hoping this tribe will draw attention to what a wonderful opportunity the juicer manufacturing industry has in hydraulic, in the hope that someone, somewhere, will create a machine as sturdy as a Norwalk, but cheap enough for the rest of us.

So now, let’s talk about this machine, how we use it, how glorious and wonderful it is to have hydraulicly-created fruit and vegetable juices — and how we justify to ourselves the cost and the troublesome operational challenges it poses.

And let’s talk about hydraulic juicing. Why and how hydraulic is better. The commitment required — and believe me, it does require commitment: You have to be devoted to hydraulic juicing to convince yourself to use this juicer instead of the many, many far more modern, dramatically more beautiful, incredibly easier-to-operate, but much less efficient centrifugal models.

And then of course there are the juice and food prep recipes, the still- cogent ‘thoughts of Dr. Walker,’ (who is also a member of this tribe, I am proud to say) -- and so much more!

C’mon everybody! Let’s triturate!

http://tribes.tribe.net/norwalkjuicer