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- 7 de Ago, 2024
I recently found out about "Ginger Shots", basically, some drink with a lot of ginger and lemon, and possibly other fruit juices and/or honey, etc. You drink a small amount like a shot of liquor and it's supposedly good for you and shiet, look it up if you care I guess. Anyway, the point is I like em and I thought it would be cheaper to make my own at home (also better since the ginger would be fresh!)
I went into it completely blind, figured I'd just get some ginger and lemon at first and have at it. So I did. What I didn't expect was how annoying peeling ginger is! I used a general purpose vegetable peeler and it took a while... I started with about 360g of ginger, which after peeling was around 260g, so roughly 28% loss there in total weight. Looking into it now after the fact, apparently using a spoon instead might be the way to go? I'll have to try that next time! Sigh, why does ginger have to grow all autistically instead of in nice chunks like a potato?
My next problem was that I don't have a blender, so I just used a fruit juicer to squeeze the juice out of it! It was kind of tricky and took a while, the ginger fibers tend to clog up the juicer's metal sieve. I basically cut them into small chunks and did it in batches pausing to clean out the sieve a couple of times. I ended up with around ~115g of juice so roughly 44% of the 260g of peeled ginger, or 32% of the initial starting mass.
Actually, I'm not sure if using a blender would be a better idea, since it would come out all thicc from the ginger pulp. With the juicer, it collects the pulp separately and I actually kept that for drying and using in tea later.
I'm not gonna yap about squeezing lemons, anyway, the final ginger shot turned out pretty nice. I think it's "spicier" with the freshly juiced ginger than the stuff I've bought before, even at the same ratio. I've seen some drinks with really high ginger ratios but the one I tried had a ratio that is something like 1:2.5:6.5 ginger:lemon:apple juice. So I went for something like that but with just plain water instead of apple juice. Maybe I'll try a bit of honey next time.
I didn't know where exactly to post this so I made a new thread. Thx for reading my ginger rant. If you have any vegetable peeling stories or secret techniques for dealing with annoying to peel veggies and such I'd like to hear about it.
I went into it completely blind, figured I'd just get some ginger and lemon at first and have at it. So I did. What I didn't expect was how annoying peeling ginger is! I used a general purpose vegetable peeler and it took a while... I started with about 360g of ginger, which after peeling was around 260g, so roughly 28% loss there in total weight. Looking into it now after the fact, apparently using a spoon instead might be the way to go? I'll have to try that next time! Sigh, why does ginger have to grow all autistically instead of in nice chunks like a potato?
My next problem was that I don't have a blender, so I just used a fruit juicer to squeeze the juice out of it! It was kind of tricky and took a while, the ginger fibers tend to clog up the juicer's metal sieve. I basically cut them into small chunks and did it in batches pausing to clean out the sieve a couple of times. I ended up with around ~115g of juice so roughly 44% of the 260g of peeled ginger, or 32% of the initial starting mass.
Actually, I'm not sure if using a blender would be a better idea, since it would come out all thicc from the ginger pulp. With the juicer, it collects the pulp separately and I actually kept that for drying and using in tea later.
I'm not gonna yap about squeezing lemons, anyway, the final ginger shot turned out pretty nice. I think it's "spicier" with the freshly juiced ginger than the stuff I've bought before, even at the same ratio. I've seen some drinks with really high ginger ratios but the one I tried had a ratio that is something like 1:2.5:6.5 ginger:lemon:apple juice. So I went for something like that but with just plain water instead of apple juice. Maybe I'll try a bit of honey next time.
I didn't know where exactly to post this so I made a new thread. Thx for reading my ginger rant. If you have any vegetable peeling stories or secret techniques for dealing with annoying to peel veggies and such I'd like to hear about it.
