It is probably you are 100% right on all of the points in your recent post. I'll just add either my 2 cents worth or toss a bit of popcorn or eventually vermicompostable non salted peanut shells from the the peanut gallery. Powdered egg shells are what we do not want to breath when someone uses a coffee grinder or spice grinder on the egg shells. Maybe grinders grind the shells into little flake size pieces. Maybe those grind the shells into breatheable dust. I do not know. Maybe blending egg shells in liquid or quickly crushing in newspaper with a rolling pin is best. I agree egg shells are good in a worm bin from dust size to whole and any size in between. Exceptions made for those who do not like how egg shells look in vermicompost. I can agree the worms, similar to snakes, might need something with specific abilities to help with cocoon removal. I do not know what those specific things are or if egg shells have that. I do not know if egg shells provide grit for worms to digest. I do not know if worms need grit to digest. Yes worms have a gizzard type digestion system. Chickens need grit. I am not sure worms need grit. One poster here seemed to have done a test and some type of grit addition seemed to have done something positive. Archives somewhere. I'm just not yet on board with worms needing grit or with egg shells being grit. I have egg shells and adding them to the bin, whole, crushed and blenderized is done at various times. Again, I hate to not yet view the facts as you do, CarlosDanger. And I am probably wrong and could be convinced by facts the other way. I just have not bumped into those yet. I sort of disagree that worms have poorly-designed food processing systems. I do not think worms would be better off having ears, eyes, or teeth. All the better to hear, see and eat me with, my dear. I think worms fit into a system and in that system they are perfectly designed for their part in the system, poor digestion or not. Somebody, somewhere thought not having teeth was OK and called worms the "intestines of the earth". Maybe it is OK to not masticate ones food if one is an worm. Again I hate to disagree with you.

I bought one and returned it to the store before using it. I also have a Champion (a single masticator type), a Greenstar (a twin gear type), an Acme (a centrifugal type), and a cheap GE that is similar to the Jack LaLane juicers. I returned the Hurom because the instructions said you have to chop up things like carrots, celery, beets, etc. before they can go in the juicer. Also, the feed tube is very small. I bought the Hurom specifically because it claims to be very good at juicing greens. But considering the time I'd spend chopping stuff and cleaning up, I think the Greenstar is still best for things like spinach and kale. All in all, too much time and work compared to my other (very old and reliable) juicers. Just my 2 cents. -hald

I also grew up on fresh squeezed milk that I squeezed out with a milking machine every morning and evening for many years. I remember stopping at some relatives who lived in town after church one Sunday morning. That was when we couldn't eat 3 hours before receiving Holy Communion. Anyway as the adults sat there and talked the lady asked us if we were hungry. She made us all a bowl of cereal. I wouldn't eat mine because I said I didn't like the taste of town milk after I had tasted it. I remember everyone got a laugh out of that one. Now when I go to my brother's dairy farm I don't like the whole milk that they drink. No I don't squeeze my own orange juice but I like it.

I have the Kuvings and am mostly pleased with it. I'm not very eager to clean it (tho it's not very hard) so I don't use it all that often. It does make a great quality juice, but it has one big caveat: with apples for example, if they're not very fresh and hard, you get more of a puree than juice. I have a few apple trees in the garden and would like to turn some of those apples into juice in the winter. After 1 month in the basement (and I do have a good basement, apples do not look shriveled or dehidrated), all I get is puree. I guess it's fine if mixed with other things, but it thought I'd mention the thing that irks me :)