Clean up time doesn’t have to be a hassle. If you are anything like me, and are usually pressed for time, or rushing out the door. Then these tips could help save you a few extra minutes.

1. Gather everything you think you will want to juice and dump it in the sink or on the counter in one place. You don’t want to be wasting time going back and forth to the fridge. You want to have everything right in front of you and near the juicer for quick grabbing.
2. Gather all utensils, knives, dishes, cups, strainers, etc. that you think you will need. And have them near you for quick grabbing. You don’t want to be looking around for that one strainer or measuring cup when you are rushing.
3. Time to rinse and wash the food. I sometimes use two different methods, it really depends.
   1. Method #A, put some cold water in the sink or a wash tub, maybe 2 or 3 inches is good. If juicing non organic fruits and vegetables add either a small amount of Dr. Bronners or Braggs food washing formula in, or Apple Cider vinegar will work as well. If you are juicing organic produce, then I rarely ever use any kind of solution to wash my produce. I always just use cold water.
   2. Method #B. And this method may waste a lot more water than the first, but sometimes is quicker. Let the faucet just run, if your faucet has a way to adjust the water flow to a spray and reduce the flow this will save water as well. Rinse each item.
4. Don’t cut produce to small. Leave as big as possible for produce to fit in your juicer hopper. Cutting too much and too small could waste time and make a bigger mess.
5. Keep the trash or waste basket next to you to dump stuff quickly as needed.
6. When finished juicing poor juice in to glass and put into fridge. Now finish cleaning your juicer.
7. I would rinse with warm water and maybe wipe with sponge or cloth, but

Method #A works well for all finner (without the big leaves) lose leafy green produce.

Method #B works well for bigger items, and large leaf veggies.

When it comes to cleaning my mess up after juicing, I try to keep it simple and as quick as possible. I don’t want to be spending a lot of time trying to clean every minute detail. If I am using my juicer several times in a day then one good cleaning at the end of my juicing day is good enough for me. For example, I usually start my day off early in the morning before work, at about 5 am. After washing and cleaning my fruits and vegetables in preparation to be juiced, which by itself takes some time, the last thing I want to be doing is wasting time cleaning a juicer that I plan to use at least two more times by the end of day.

Food preparation takes some time. Cutting and actually juicing takes some time. And then, clean up will take a few minutes, but this is the area I want to spend the least amount of time, especially when rushing and trying to get out of the door for work.

The biggest thing is not trying to get it all perfect  (sorry perfectionist ), but you can waste a lot of time trying to cut off every blemish or brown spot, and trying to completely wash every single leaf, stalk, item, seed etc. This is a big time waster. When juicing most of those superficial blemishes will get passed out with the fiber waste basket.

And there you have it. My quick tips for juicing and how to get started juicing