Salton LM8 Lemonader! Lemonade Maker
- Citrus juicing appliance for lemonade lovers
- 2-1/2-quart pitcher
- Basket and reaming sections are removable and dishwasher safe
Product Description
Lemonader Juicer, 2.5 QT Pitcher Capacity, Bi Directional Citrus Juicer, Fill The Main Body Reservoir With Water, Ice Goes In The Pitcher & Sugar Is Added To The Sugar Chamber, Ream The Halves Of 4-6 Lemons On The Top Juicer Cone, Seeds & Rind Are Kept Out As The Juice Is Filtered & Combines With The Sugar Syrup, Recipes Included, Removable Parts Are Dishwasher Safe, Pause/Interrupt Feature For Brewing Cycle, Power Indicator Light, Map Retail: $19.99.
Amazon.com Review
Lemonade lovers will jump for joy at this handy citrus appliance from Salton. With a citrus reamer built into the top of the unit, lemons, or other citrus fruits, can be juiced directly into the carafe. With a bi-directional juicing mechanism, the Lemonader will draw out every last drop of juice. The 2.5-quart pitcher and all other removable parts are dishwasher safe, and a recipe booklet is included to get you started.
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Salton LM8 Lemonader! Lemonade Maker
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- Publisher: Salton
- Label: Salton
- Studio: Salton
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 30 reviews
- Sales Rank in Kitchen & Housewares: #71133
Avg. Customer Review:
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Those Lazy Hazy Crazy Days of Summer 2006-07-28
Comment: When I first saw this I couldn't wait to buy one. Then after reading some of the reviews I became a bit hesitant. But the urge became overwhelming and I ordered it. My first delight came from the service I got from Amazon, even though I ordered regular shipping it arrived the next day! Within the hour I'd made my first batch of lemonade. It was a breeze and kind of fun. Yes, one must be careful about the steam but if you follow the directions this a handy gadget to have around. I've been drinking a whole lot more lemonade, it has made this heat wave almost bearable. If you even think you might like this, I recommend buying it.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: lemonade for everyone 2006-06-21
Comment: What better way to kick off summer than to review lemonade? Lemonade is the juice of the Gods. Did you ever wonder what God's intention for lemons were when he created them? Think about it. When God invented lemons did he do so because he thought humans would have no problem peeling a lemon and sucking the bitter sweet juice STRAIGHT from a lemon? Or did he create lemons because he knew people would be intelligent enough to mix lemons with water to have ourselves a refreshing drink? They say you should never assume (and that includes Gods) so I don't know WHAT to think.
What I DO know is that lemonade exists and I can't believe how happy I am about it. Just a few seconds ago I was drinking lemonade and feeling satisfied.
What we have here is a lemonade maker thing. You should just ignore products like this. It's just ANOTHER thing to put SOMEWHERE in your kitchen, so when you need something important you have to push this lemonade maker to the side. Just another thing in the way. That is SO annoying. The less stuff in your kitchen, the easier it will be to find important things.
What I'm trying to say is that you can make your own lemonade by using your imagination. The best way to make lemonade is to take masking tape and a butcher knife, and then tape the knife to the middle of a cereal bowl (with the sharp end of the knife standing straight up). Take a lemon (it doesn't matter if you peel it or not) and keep twisting the lemon on top of the knife, and as you continue doing this, the lemon juice will drip into the bowl. Just be careful not to cut yourself. Twist with caution. If you don't take your time lemon juice will squirt all over the place, including in your eye (and you know how much that stings).
Then, when all the juice has left the lemon, pour the lemon juice from inside the bowl into a glass. Then pour a cup of water in the glass. Stir, and drink. Very nice. Very simple, too. I just saved you some money.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: poor design, waste of money 2005-05-16
Comment: This is a poorly designed lemonade maker. The plastic construction is flimsy.
When you apply pressure to juice the lemon, you feel like the plastic is going to crack.
Making lemonade should be an easy, enjoyable process. But this machine makes it a lot more trouble than it has to be. You have to put sugar in a separate reserve, add water into another reserve, and the steam comes out of the top, so it can get kind of hot. Because the water is heated to melt the sugar, you'll have to use ALOT of ice to cool it down in order to drink. Then you have to disassemble the top to wash out the sugar, pulp & seeds.
I cannot believe Salton released this product to be sold. It is a completely unnecessary contraption. I would recommend buying a simple, smaller juice extractor for squeezing the lemons instead. You can melt sugar with hot water in a separate cup and just add cold water. Trust me, it'll save u money, time and counter space!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Delicious down to the very last drop!! 2005-05-04
Comment: I have to admit that this was an impulse buy.... BUT a good one for sure! I was hesitant at first because of some of the "less than favourable" things some reviewers had written, but decided to go ahead and try it, knowing I could return it to Amazon if I had problems.
It has arrived and I must admit, it is complicated at first to figure out... what goes where and how to do it... BUT, after the first batch, I was an ole pro.... (do you think I can have my own lemonade stand now?)
One half - one cup of sugar.... NO WAY enough. I made it with the 6 lemons and one cup and 3/4 to 2 cups of sugar. I dont think you can do more sugar than that because there is not enough room in the reservoir. Jug: WAY TOO HEAVY and bulky with all the ice to use...so we had to put into another container, which was messy BUT again, by the second batch...yep, you guessed it; an ole pro:)
The lemonade is amazing. It tastes as good as your lemons are. Buy bright yellow lemons that have a good even texture and nice and firm. Old lemons that are shrivelled up or pock marked just wont cut it. The only down fall of course is that lemons are costly... I buy mine at the farmers market at low cost, but they are only there part of the year. So it may be too expensive to make later in the season.
My question is.... is this a novelty item I will continue to use or will I tire of it and be reselling it on ebay at the end of the summer?
Enjoy......
7 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: This Lemonade Maker Will Physically Hurt You 2005-04-22
Comment: The Lemonader. A mere $5 shipped from Amazon, I figured delcious lemonade was finally in my grasp.
Oh, a naive fool be I!
I feel foolhardy for not having pictures from the debacle that was brewing our first pitcher of lemonade. Words will just have to do.
First of all, it's a strangely complicated procedure for making a drink that consists only of water, sugar, and lemon.
First the exact amount of water it tells you to add changes. I was told by fellow lemonade brewers that I just didn't read well, but does this really seem a plausable reason for me screwing up? Doubtful.
The result of this was I poured in far too much water. "Oh no!" you might think "the pitcher is going to overflow and spill hot lemony water all over you! You'll get burned!" No, kids, don't worry. The fine people at LemonCorp knew of this danger and for that reason put a rather sizable hole where you pour the water in. So instead of having watered down lemonade you instead get water all over the place. The best part about the hole is it just comes straight out the back of the contraption. Not into any type of fail-safe mechanism which would catch the water pouring out at a rather rapid pace (seeing as they tell you to put in triple the water you actually need to).
Good design.
Well, whatever, we got that figured out so we turn it on and it starts to `brew' the sugar water. I didn't expect this but the Lemonader is much like a coffee machine, except instead of coffee grounds, it uses pure uncut sugar. Mmmm.
While this is going on you're supposed to put some lemons onto that juicer at the top so as to add essence to the Lemonade.
I start doing so. Everything's fine until around the third lemon.
This is when the machine shoots hot steam at whomever is close enough to it to get painfully burned. Yep, if the water all over your kitchen doesn't piss you off, they burn you too.
Nice.
So after tending to my third-degree burns and realizing I can no longer ream any more lemons (too dangerous!) we let the lemonade maker do its thing.
Aside from a pitcher of rather regular tasting lemonade, there was a nice pulpy mess that made me just want to jump up and make another pitcher.
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