After careful consideration, Motorized Sugar Cane Juicer is the best way to go, IMO.
The best location for a Sugar Cane Juicer at Home is in an Outdoors Kitchen in a residential House. I’ve personally never cared much about an Outdoors Kitchen because it would occupy valuable fruit tree space. But, an Outdoors Kitchen that includes a Sugar Cane Juicer, I must concede, is a great reason to have one.
Leoel, an electric sugarcane juicer is great to have if you don’t care about exercise, noise or the need to have electricity. Electric juicers will save you a lot of sweat and if you get a strong and expensive unit, you can juice massive amounts of cane in a short period of time.
For me personally, even though I am motorizing my unit, I would recommend a sugarcane juicer that has the ability to juice sugarcane manually. A manual juicer hardly makes any noise so you can even juice in the dead of night when everyone else is in deep sleep.
The manual crank juicers also give you a great workout which will help you to burn some of the sugars, it definitely gets my heart pumping when I manually juice 1 gallon or more. For someone not so fit, juicing 1/2 gallon can get you tired and sweating.
One of the best reasons to get a manual crank juicer is because you don’t need electricity. I know there are some preppers out there and if there were a natural disaster, prolonged power outage or the water supply got contaminated, you can still get nutrition and fluid from sugarcane juice.
Once a patch of sugarcane gets established, they can survive for long periods of time without irrigation. In the highly unlikely event that our water supply were cut off due to some unforeseen disaster, an electric only sugarcane juicer will be of little help although I’m sure there are those skillful enough to convert and electric model into a manual model.
With the setup I have, I can manually juice if I want just a small amount of juice. With the electric motor kit, I can dramatically speed things up and crank out a lot more juice if I wanted more juice for a party or other large gathering.
In a YouTube video I saw, someone mentioned that someone they knew threw a party and bought a brand new electric sugarcane juicer and a ton of fresh sugarcane and when they plugged in the machine, it was already broken. They weren’t able to fix the machine and the sugarcane pretty much was wasted.
If they had a dual purpose unit, at least they would be able to crank out some juice.
I’ve brought my manual sugarcane juicer to many parties and the partygoers always want to try juicing their own cane juice. One sip of the fresh sugarcane juice and the people are hooked!
I’ve had people asking me if I added sugar to the juice even though I clearly juiced the cane right in front of their eyes. The next question is usually “where can I get a juicer like that”, then comes “ how much does something like that cost” followed by “is it easy to grow sugarcane”?
On a side note, several people asked me how much juice I get from one stalk of Sugarcane? Well, it depends on the variety and the size of the cane. Here in SoCal, it takes about 1.5 years to get large sized canes. If you water and fertilize frequently, it will grow much faster. I neglect my canes, and most my other plants so it takes me 1.5 years to get the 2+ inch thick canes.
The large 2 inch plus canes are only this large towards the bottom and it gets narrower at the tip of the plant. An approximately 10 foot section of my larger San Diego Yellow sugarcane will yield roughly 1/2-3/4 gallon of juice.
This is a lot of juice if you take into consideration that hardly anyone I know will drink the juice straight. People may try a sip or two straight but soon realize that it’s much better if diluted by 1/3-1/2 with ice, water, citrus juice or a combination of these.
Simon