Monday, July 16, 2012

Oh! for Orange



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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21 comments:

  1. most of us crazy about something or the other in life.

    After all " whst is life without crazyness and love"

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  2. That was an engrossing odyssey on oranges! I remember having soaked myself seriously in oranges for a year or so, when I hit Jaipur circa 1997, when I'd start the day with a glass of orange juice and ended it the same way and of course, there was a glass of it in between too!

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  3. Amusing account! Well, every person is allowed one foible at least:)

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  4. Never read a more tangy post on Oranges before! Do let us know when the color of face changes to red in next post Sangeeta:)

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  5. ha ha u must have left him orange faced if he had read this orangy post of yours.....
    :) he must be a store house of vitamins den :P :D

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  6. You write well. Certainly it makes me, despite my lazyness, to create some orange juice and drink. "Orange rehabilitation centre". I enjoyed it. :)
    Sabyasachi

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  7. Very nicely written, enjoyed and smiled very much reading it :)

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  8. the fate of married men is to be misunderstood and be unappreciated for all the systemic logic they bring to homemaking... have you looked at the food processors that come with a citrus juicing attachment and a centrifugal juice extractor with 850 watts of power... oh boy... you are not alone, sangeeta, and the better news is, neither is your husband...

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  9. he he he that was a cute post ! i liked the idea of Orange rehabilitation centre !!!!

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  10. Well, can you send us more details of that juicer? I need one ;) ehehhehe

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  12. Oh! so orange...oops :P...lovely post :)

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  13. people can go to any lengths for the love of food... or oranges in this case :D :D..

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  15. Lol,,, what a neighbour

    interesting post,, hope u use it soon

    http://www.styledestino.blogspot.com

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  16. Sangeeta, it's been a while, right? We miss reading you. Here's something to beat that writer's block http://dnambiar11.blogspot.com/2012/08/tagged.html. :)

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