If there is an award for world’s biggest Orange fan then it has to be my hubby. Now I am not
exaggerating! He can happily eat orange after his breakfast, lunch, dinner or
replace all the meals listed above with Citrus. And that’s not all; if they are
sour then it’s even better. Ok why is that a problem, you may ask?
Bored of peeling and eating them the old-fashioned
way, he decided to get himself an orange squeezer. And one day he got himself
an ordinary manual squeezer, where you would place orange and physically rotate
the fruit to get the juice. He was very happy with it, which gave him fresh
orange juice with pulp and no sugar. What more could he have asked for?
As the days passed his arms started aching and
enthusiasm was also slowly diminishing. This would be the right place to apply
the Law of Diminishing Mandarin Utility.
He then wanted to upgrade himself from a squeezer
to a citrus press. So the search began with every weekend spent at every home
furnishing store in the city. He found a few but the quality didn’t impress him
much. Finally he founded just the perfect piece at one of the swankiest places
in town. So with a heavy heart (read expensive) I let him buy that as an
anniversary gift to himself.
Delighted with his newly acquired and improved
juicer technology, orange juice became yet again a regular at our home. While I have to admit I do enjoy it
particularly if the oranges are sweet. And with that I thought it was a happily
ever after story for me.
Then a couple of weeks back, our neighbour bought a
top of the range juicer which did all kinds of stuff. When I told him the story
he was still smug because even that juicer could not do what his citrus press
did. But I think that made him re-think that
there could be better options available out there to get the juice out with-out
making it half a work-out.
As things turned out, he got the perfect excuse
when our vegetable chopper broke. He
tricks me buying an orange juice extractor with additional chopping
functionality. It does not end there he now pressurises me not to use it for
onion and garlic. Maybe all he really needs is to go to an orange rehabilitation
centre.
I am sure reading this post his face will surely
turn red or maybe even orange.
P.S. – Our expensive citrus press continues to unwind on
my kitchen counter, waiting for a day when the electricity goes off here in
Dubai for it come back in use.
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