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If it ever feels as though there is a Greek chorus singing the glories of the kitchen and home brand Oxo, it’s because there is. Fanatics include your parents, your aunt, the person behind you in line at the food co-op, the MoMA, and me.
Let me add to this to the refrain: I love the Oxo Good Grips Citrus Juicer. It might not seem like much, just a plastic reamer-style juicer with a cup that catches the liquid below. But as with so many Oxo products, the Good Grips Citrus Juicer takes a classic design and tweaks and massages it into something that just seems to make sense—and something that works really, really well.
I’m one of those people who resists single-use tools and tries to avoid plastic. I started using a citrus squeezer only because I cook with citrus so often that the lemon-squeezing I was doing with my hands alone was irritating my skin. For a while I’d use a press-style squeezer, holding it over another all-time favorite Oxo product, the Mini Angled Measuring Cup. Then I realized the brand makes a tool that does both.
Why is the Oxo Good Grips Citrus Juicer (yes, it’s plastic; yes, it’s single-use) so good? The reamer is slotted so it acts as its own strainer, keeping pulp out of the juice below. And the thing is sturdy. Making lunch today, I realized that the force it takes to juice a regular old lime—and the ability of the Oxo juicer to support my crushing down on it in pursuit of every last drop—is something that I take for granted. That the plastic cup doesn’t go skittering out from under my arm, and that the reamer doesn’t snap or even threaten to, is impressive.
But the thing that really won me over, the thing that got me to switch from my squeezer-over-a-measuring-cup method, was the graduated cup. The cup fits neatly into the reamer, with little notches to hold everything in place, and measures juice four ways—milliliters, ounces, tablespoons, and cups. Are you following this? You juice a lemon or whatever directly into the attached measuring cup and know immediately just how much juice you have.
It rocks, and not just for me, a recipe tester who really does need things to be exact so that the recipes I’m working on will work reliably for others. It’s also great for bartenders and bakers (more precision-oriented folks), for devoted recipe followers, or just for anyone who wants to get a sense of how much juice the average lemon or lime has (that’s 3 tablespoons and 1½ tablespoons, respectively). Epi editors also tested all of the styles of handheld juicers to see which one allowed you to get the most juice. Spoiler: It’s the reamer-style. And this particularly excellent reamer has taught me more about my ingredients. It allows me be faster and smarter in the kitchen. It has, in summary, made me a better cook. Maybe it can make you a better one too.
