Quote: (03-24-2013 04:35 PM)JayMillz Wrote:  

Quote: (03-24-2013 12:42 PM)Ovid Wrote:  

I wouldn't think it an issue if you check your luggage.

Yeah, I may purchase a Nutribullet for travel since it is significantly smaller than my Vitamix and is only $99. I figure it would pay for itself in the long-run by cutting down on the amount of money I spend eating out or purchasing juice drinks when I'm away from home on travel. I would probably pack the blade, but carryon the rest to minimize the chance of damage.

JayMillz, don't forget that if you're traveling overseas to check the power supply issues (re: adapter/converter, etc.)
If there is some country you visit regularly, you could by one there, and use that one for overseas

Mike CF,

I finally got around to calling Hamilton Beach about my broken Juicer.

They just sent me a brand new one today.

Pretty good warranty, no real hassle, I just had to take a picture of my juicer with the cord cut and send it to them.

I already bought a new one, so now I have two.

Smooth.

Thanks for the tip.

i bought a little handy one in china. a voltage xonverter didnt really work. my hamilton runs on 800 volts i think and most converters cant do anything above 50 well. mine claimed to go as high 2000 but couldnt do anything

Quote: (04-06-2013 01:00 AM)clever alias Wrote:  

i bought a little handy one in china. a voltage xonverter didnt really work. my hamilton runs on 800 volts i think and most converters cant do anything above 50 well. mine claimed to go as high 2000 but couldnt do anything

Sounds like you are getting your Watts confused with your Volts.

Mike, I'm just curious if you know anything about drinking lots of citrus and the effects on your teeth?

I read that you should be weary about brushing after juicing citruses for example as it can take enamel off your teeth.

Quote: (04-06-2013 12:35 PM)dk902 Wrote:  

Mike, I'm just curious if you know anything about drinking lots of citrus and the effects on your teeth?

I read that you should be weary about brushing after juicing citruses for example as it can take enamel off your teeth.

Never heard of it, bro, but there's a lot of weird info out there.

Sounds like something an Internet geek thought up.

"Let's see. Orange juice has a ph of x. A ph of x can dissolve tooth enamel. Therefore drinking juice causes tooth decay!"

The latest thing I heard floating around, "Raw vegetables have natural toxins designed to prevent people from eating them. If you eat too many raw veggies, you'll become toxic."

And of course, "Fructose makes you fat!"

Quote: (04-05-2013 01:43 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Mike CF,

I finally got around to calling Hamilton Beach about my broken Juicer.

They just sent me a brand new one today.

Pretty good warranty, no real hassle, I just had to take a picture of my juicer with the cord cut and send it to them.

I already bought a new one, so now I have two.

Smooth.

Thanks for the tip.

Awesome intel.

BTW, gonna hit up Miami in the next 6-8 weeks.

Any particularly good weekend to go or bad weekend to avoid?

Quote: (04-06-2013 10:26 AM)Pacific Wrote:  

Quote: (04-06-2013 01:00 AM)clever alias Wrote:  

i bought a little handy one in china. a voltage xonverter didnt really work. my hamilton runs on 800 volts i think and most converters cant do anything above 50 well. mine claimed to go as high 2000 but couldnt do anything

Sounds like you are getting your Watts confused with your Volts.

both possible and likely. all i know is every foreign adapter does not generate sufficient power

Here is what you need to do. First, check the label on your electronic device, it will give you a few pieces of information:
1. Voltage (might be a single number or a range, example : 110V or 110V- 220V)
2. Wattage (It will be a number followed by a W, mW, or kW, although, I don't think anyone here will have a device that's rated in kW)
3. Amperage (This might be given instead of number 2, Wattage, this will be a number followed by A or mA, you definitely will NOT see kA unless you are working with power-plant level stuff, in that case, you shouldn't be reading this guide from me).

All devices should have at least #1, and maybe 2 or 3, or maybe all 3 pieces of information.

Now, first step you need to do is, you will need to make sure the Voltage in the country you are in either matches the Voltage number of your device, or falls into the range. If it does not, then you will need a converter that converts the voltage. If it falls inside the range or matches, you are done, you just need to make sure the plug type fits.

If you are still reading, that means the voltage in the country you are in falls outside the range of your device. In this case, you will need a converter that changes the voltage. You will definitely need a converter that outputs a voltage that matches your device. However, that is not the only concern.

You also need to make sure the converter can handle the amount of power that your device will pull, otherwise, it will either blow a fuse, or burn up and catch on fire. You DON"T want that to happen.

So how do we determine if a converter is powerful enough? We look at the numbers 2 and 3 we mentioned before:

Wattage is a measure of the power draw of the device (power = energy per time). You will need a converter that is rated at an output wattage that is the same or higher than that of your device. To be safer, you can get one that is higher instead of exactly the same (you might even get away with slightly lower, but you risk blown fuse or electrical fire as mentioned before).

So, if the converter has an output rating in terms of wattage, you just need to find a number that is bigger, but be careful of the the units! (remember when you were taking science classes, your teacher always told you that you should write your units with your answer? well, he should have). mW is milliWatts, or 0.001W. So, 1W = 1000mW , 0.1W = 100mW, etc. Make sure when you are comparing, you are comparing them in the same units.

Now, the tricky part is if the converter only gives you either wattage or Amperage, and your devices gives the other measurement. What do we do here? Well, it's simple. Watt = Volt x Amps. That's it. So all you need to do, is convert one of the measurements to be the same as the other.

Example: Your device is rated at 600W, your converter output is rated at 110V at 2A. Can you use this converter for your device? Well, let's convert the amperage into Watts, 110V x 2A = 220W: so, your converter is rated for 220W which is way below your device requirement of 600W, so this particular converter will NOT work. Now, you see the vendor has another converter that probably weights like 40 lbs and cost 10 times as much, but it's output is rated at 110V at 10A. This gives you 110V x 10A = 1100W, almost double the wattage of your device requirement! So you can almost run 2 of your devices on this one converter alone... (I wouldn't do it though, since it's a tad below that number).

And there you have it. A few notes: just to make things simple, convert all your mA and mW to A and W first. The formula uses Volts and Amp to get Watts, not mV or mA or mW. Heavy duty converters can handle more power, but it will be bigger, heavier, and more expensive. If you have a really powerful converter, you can run multiple devices off of it (say you plug a power strip to the outlet of the converter and plug multiple devices into it). This is ok as long as the SUM of the Wattage of all your devices is less than the Wattage rating of your converter.

Edit: One more note. When looking at the rating of the converter, make sure you at looking at the OUTPUT information, and not the INPUT information. You just need to match the INPUT voltage to the voltage of the country you are in.

Quote: (04-07-2013 07:28 PM)clever alias Wrote:  

Quote: (04-06-2013 10:26 AM)Pacific Wrote:  

Sounds like you are getting your Watts confused with your Volts.

both possible and likely. all i know is every foreign adapter does not generate sufficient power

Quote: (04-07-2013 01:15 PM)MikeCF Wrote:  

Quote: (04-05-2013 01:43 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Mike CF,

I finally got around to calling Hamilton Beach about my broken Juicer.

They just sent me a brand new one today.

Pretty good warranty, no real hassle, I just had to take a picture of my juicer with the cord cut and send it to them.

I already bought a new one, so now I have two.

Smooth.

Thanks for the tip.

Awesome intel.

BTW, gonna hit up Miami in the next 6-8 weeks.

Any particularly good weekend to go or bad weekend to avoid?

Yeah, I think it was the first warranty I have ever taken advantage of in my life.

As far as Miami goes, not really sure. I know you want to avoid Memorial day, or so I have heard.

I heard it is basically 40,000 little Waynes in town. Shootings too. Basically every "down south hustler" is in South Beach. You could probably avoid it by going to Brickell, I would guess.

Maybe post on a Miami thread and someone can weigh in. Internationalplayboy has been there during that time so he would probably know.

Quote: (04-07-2013 08:24 PM)Pacific Wrote:  

Here is what you need to do. First, check the label on your electronic device, it will give you a few pieces of information:
1. Voltage (might be a single number or a range, example : 110V or 110V- 220V)
2. Wattage (It will be a number followed by a W, mW, or kW, although, I don't think anyone here will have a device that's rated in kW)
3. Amperage (This might be given instead of number 2, Wattage, this will be a number followed by A or mA, you definitely will NOT see kA unless you are working with power-plant level stuff, in that case, you shouldn't be reading this guide from me).

All devices should have at least #1, and maybe 2 or 3, or maybe all 3 pieces of information.

Now, first step you need to do is, you will need to make sure the Voltage in the country you are in either matches the Voltage number of your device, or falls into the range. If it does not, then you will need a converter that converts the voltage. If it falls inside the range or matches, you are done, you just need to make sure the plug type fits.

If you are still reading, that means the voltage in the country you are in falls outside the range of your device. In this case, you will need a converter that changes the voltage. You will definitely need a converter that outputs a voltage that matches your device. However, that is not the only concern.

You also need to make sure the converter can handle the amount of power that your device will pull, otherwise, it will either blow a fuse, or burn up and catch on fire. You DON"T want that to happen.

So how do we determine if a converter is powerful enough? We look at the numbers 2 and 3 we mentioned before:

Wattage is a measure of the power draw of the device (power = energy per time). You will need a converter that is rated at an output wattage that is the same or higher than that of your device. To be safer, you can get one that is higher instead of exactly the same (you might even get away with slightly lower, but you risk blown fuse or electrical fire as mentioned before).

So, if the converter has an output rating in terms of wattage, you just need to find a number that is bigger, but be careful of the the units! (remember when you were taking science classes, your teacher always told you that you should write your units with your answer? well, he should have). mW is milliWatts, or 0.001W. So, 1W = 1000mW , 0.1W = 100mW, etc. Make sure when you are comparing, you are comparing them in the same units.

Now, the tricky part is if the converter only gives you either wattage or Amperage, and your devices gives the other measurement. What do we do here? Well, it's simple. Watt = Volt x Amps. That's it. So all you need to do, is convert one of the measurements to be the same as the other.

Example: Your device is rated at 600W, your converter output is rated at 110V at 2A. Can you use this converter for your device? Well, let's convert the amperage into Watts, 110V x 2A = 220W: so, your converter is rated for 220W which is way below your device requirement of 600W, so this particular converter will NOT work. Now, you see the vendor has another converter that probably weights like 40 lbs and cost 10 times as much, but it's output is rated at 110V at 10A. This gives you 110V x 10A = 1100W, almost double the wattage of your device requirement! So you can almost run 2 of your devices on this one converter alone... (I wouldn't do it though, since it's a tad below that number).

And there you have it. A few notes: just to make things simple, convert all your mA and mW to A and W first. The formula uses Volts and Amp to get Watts, not mV or mA or mW. Heavy duty converters can handle more power, but it will be bigger, heavier, and more expensive. If you have a really powerful converter, you can run multiple devices off of it (say you plug a power strip to the outlet of the converter and plug multiple devices into it). This is ok as long as the SUM of the Wattage of all your devices is less than the Wattage rating of your converter.

Edit: One more note. When looking at the rating of the converter, make sure you at looking at the OUTPUT information, and not the INPUT information. You just need to match the INPUT voltage to the voltage of the country you are in.

This is the ultimate data sheet on Watts vs Volts!!!

The forum will never see another voltage/wattage sheet that comes close to this...!





Juice electrifies your body!

the voltage in china is different so using my hamilton will burn out the motor. i cant find a converter that can consistently power the juicer. most say they can handle 2000 watts but theyre meant to stay under 50.

Different levels of juicing

This bad boy should be here by Friday.

I seriously doubt you found converters that can handle 2000 watts. Are you sure they are not 2000 mW? which is equal to 2W. A 2000 watt converter will probably weigh 40 lbs and will look like an industrial piece of equipment. You can find them in China, I had to buy one before for charging an electric wheel chair.

If it looks like your typical cellphone, laptop power supply in terms of size and weight, it's NOT going to handle 2000 Watts, those are gonna be rated in mW, which is 0.001W

Quote: (04-08-2013 05:56 AM)clever alias Wrote:  

the voltage in china is different so using my hamilton will burn out the motor. i cant find a converter that can consistently power the juicer. most say they can handle 2000 watts but theyre meant to stay under 50.

Quote: (09-06-2012 11:52 AM)thedude3737 Wrote:  

Off topic, my daily shake is whey protein, creatine, raw cacao, goji berries, and maca with purified water. Unless I've got a slammed day and I'm busy and forget, I drink 1 of these a day with 2 more protein-and-water drinks throughout the day. 3 glasses of ACV water. I've only gotten this intensive the last few months but I'd say the results are noticeable. I'm looking forward to continuing this regimen and see my results in 6 months.

I'm just starting to incorporate goji berries into my juices; they are expensive, lol. Haven't done the cacao or maca yet but looking into that. I have some protein powder, but I think I'm gonna stop taking protein powders after this jug is done. I'm not bodybuilding so I don't think I need the extra protein and prefer Mother Nature.

Quote: (04-14-2013 08:56 PM)JayMillz Wrote:  

Quote: (09-06-2012 11:52 AM)thedude3737 Wrote:  

Off topic, my daily shake is whey protein, creatine, raw cacao, goji berries, and maca with purified water. Unless I've got a slammed day and I'm busy and forget, I drink 1 of these a day with 2 more protein-and-water drinks throughout the day. 3 glasses of ACV water. I've only gotten this intensive the last few months but I'd say the results are noticeable. I'm looking forward to continuing this regimen and see my results in 6 months.

I'm just starting to incorporate goji berries into my juices; they are expensive, lol. Haven't done the cacao or maca yet but looking into that. I have some protein powder, but I think I'm gonna stop taking protein powders after this jug is done. I'm not bodybuilding so I don't think I need the extra protein and prefer Mother Nature.

What are goji berries doing for you guys?

I have taken them for a while and don't notice anything.

Quote: (04-14-2013 10:12 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

What are goji berries doing for you guys?

I have taken them for a while and don't notice anything.

I'm only on my forth day with it, but I do feel more energetic. Hard to say I attribute it to Goji since I'm putting so many other things into my juices like hemp seeds, chia seeds, coconut oil, etc. It could be a synergistic reaction as opposed to one thing specifically.

Quote: (04-14-2013 10:12 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

What are goji berries doing for you guys?

I have taken them for a while and don't notice anything.

They are just giving us some variety in our diet. Something new.

Most times, we will not notice anything different by eating one type of berry versus another. Blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, goji berries, etc.

We won't notice a change.

We just have to have faith that eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables will provide us with the best nutrients for our body.

Eating the same thing all the time can limit us. Try it all. If its a fruit or vegetable, it probably is beneficial to you. Even if you don't notice any change.

Have faith in the force.

Quote: (04-10-2013 07:54 PM)Enigma Wrote:  

This bad boy should be here by Friday.

I'm loving this thing.

Anyone got any good juice recipes for pomegranates?

Quote: (04-07-2013 01:14 PM)MikeCF Wrote:  

Quote: (04-06-2013 12:35 PM)dk902 Wrote:  

Mike, I'm just curious if you know anything about drinking lots of citrus and the effects on your teeth?

I read that you should be weary about brushing after juicing citruses for example as it can take enamel off your teeth. this is BS

Never heard of it, bro, but there's a lot of weird info out there.

Sounds like something an Internet geek thought up.

"Let's see. Orange juice has a ph of x. A ph of x can dissolve tooth enamel. Therefore drinking juice causes tooth decay!" False, excessive acid causes erosion.

I wish it was just an internet geek thing. Unforunately if it wasn't, I wouldn't be able to diagnosis the "acid overdose" in 5 seconds or less.

Certain cultures are more susceptible than other because of dietary habits. Hispanics come to mind. They love to bite into lemons and suck on them.

I frequently see them with acid-induced dental erosions like this.



Enamel is thinner as you go closer to the gums, which is why you have this characteristic look. There are 2-3 other reasons why this happens, but I've usually nailed it 7/10 times when a patient (ages 30-50) comes in like this.

Edit- pulll your lip up/down and take a good look in the mirror. Do you have the beginnings of these notches? Well, its wise then to cut acid consumption or buffer your mouth after drinking acidic drinks.

I usually use a straw and rinse my mouth with warm water (I add in some sea salt at times) after drinking my vegetable & fruit shakes. I have also cut back on the amount of fruit I use and opt for more vegetables and seeds.

I've never really juiced at home, but I bought some carrot juice and noticed that my skin looks brighter, healthier, a little more vital and slightly 'flushed.' The juice I bought lasts for several days after opening too. Definitely recommend.



I'm guessing you'd have to eat so many carrots to get the benefits that you couldn't sustain that over time, so juicing is the way to go.

What are the advantages of fresh juices, either made at home or in a juicery, as compared to a store-bought prepackaged juice?

I would buy Naked Juice, but it's pretty high in sugar. I did see a 3 day juice cleanse kit at Costco, 3 1L bottles with half the sugar of Naked Juice, for $15, going to try that. Called Sambazon. I'm curious to see if Naked Juice will ever rejigger their juices to reduce sugar content.



Edit: Fuck, the Sambazon nut milk has soy milk and sunflower oil. http://sambazon.com/cleanse/img/Sambazon_Cleanse.pdf

That carrot juice stuff is pretty legit. That's what I get when on the road without juice.

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What are the advantages of fresh juices, either made at home or in a juicery, as compared to a store-bought prepackaged juice?

Ingredients. Most store-bought stuff is loaded with apples.

Ideally you juice in a bunch of greens and just use a little apple to sweeten stuff like kale, spinach, lettuce, etc.

Store-bought juices are marketed towards the American consumer's sweet tooth. Most have a lot of apples and not much greens.