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It would also be trivially easy to construct something that squeezes the juice packets between, say, two wooden cutting boards, that would apply uniform pressur
by pyrophane 10y ago
It would also be trivially easy to construct something that squeezes the juice packets between, say, two wooden cutting boards, that would apply uniform pressure over a large surface area in the same way that the juicero does. Then, what do you have left? A bunch of features that I doubt people really care about, such as automatic disabling of packs (seriously, just send me an email) and reorder reminders?
- astrodust 10y agoA $8 tortilla press can do the job as well or better than this over-engineered piece of junk. A $15 pasta roller can probably come pretty close.
- jasonlaramburu 10y agoI don't think a roller would work. The solids in the bag would settle to one side of the bag and form a clump. You would either need a ton of torque to drive the roller and smash the clump or a slip-roller.
- jacquesm 10y agoIf this discussion goes on for much longer there will be something even more complex than the device shown.
- astrodust 10y agoA double-roller system will probably have that problem, but twisting the bag in on itself and just torquing it will probably work, the bag's pressing against itself in a fairly uniform manner.
- unfamiliar 10y agoI highly doubt you can apply that much pressure without wooden boards breaking or warping.
- exsf0859 10y agoI think the main reason for the QR code is to discourage third-party juice packs.
- angryasian 10y agoWell that might be part of it, but the reason is because the juice had no preservatives so they will go bad. Honestly it would be a product failure if people were getting sick for using the bags after they've gone rotten
- ascorbic 10y agoIf only there were some simple way of indicating a date by which a food should be used. Maybe they could make it human-readable.
- rdl 10y agoI wonder if you could get uniform pressure by putting the juice bag itself in some fluid, then pressurizing that? I mean obviously you could, but I don't know if you could get 15 bar or whatever they are going for using something relatively inexpensive. (OTOH, it would be annoying if it exploded)