Lemon squeezer

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For the 10th anniversary of its launch, 10,000 have been individually numbered and gold plated. There has also been a gray/black version. Both are now collectors items, the gray/black version particularly tough to discover. The gold plated version was described as an ornament because the citric acid in a lemon discolors and erodes the gold plating. Starck is even rumored to have said, "My juicer seriously is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations".

The oldest known lemon squeezers have been found in Ktahya, Turkey and date to the first quarter of the 18th century. These ceramic presses are in the conventional style of Turkish pottery of the 18th century and have a superficial resemblance to nowadays's press equipment with cones, though they are designed differently. These examples have been individualy made, and specially designed for making the then popular citrus drink sorbet. Lemons are not neighborhood to northern Turkey, though throughout the seventeenth and 18th centuries they have been imported en masse to Constantinople.

Among squeezers that employ a twisting central projection, both guide and electric options exist; for the guide squeezer the operator ought to turn the device and hold the lemon (or turn and hold the lemon) while the electric squeezer turns it automatically and the operator ought to simply hold onto the lemon. Other squeezers simply crush the lemon against a stationary central projection; these typically employ long handles, to gain the mechanical skills of a lever.

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A lemon squeezer is a small kitchen utensil designed to extract juice from lemons or other citrus fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, or lime. It is designed to separate and crush the pulp of the fruit in a way that is straightforward to operate. s can be made from any solid, acid-resistant cloth, such as plastic, glass, metal (typically aluminium) or ceramic.

Not all squeezers are meant to in reality squeeze. Perhaps the most renowned example of this is the Juicy Salif, designed by Philippe Starck in 1990. It is considered an icon of industrial design that has been displayed in New York's Museum of Modern Art. It is manufactured by Italian kitchenware company Alessi. Its diameter is 14 cm, height 29 cm, and it is made from cast and polished aluminium. As the founder of the company Alberto Alessi recalls "I received a napkin from Starck, on it among some incomprehensible marks (tomato sauce, possible) there have been some sketches. Sketches of squid. They started on the left, and as they worked their rather more than to the right, they took on the unmistakable shape of what was to become the juicy salif. While consuming a dish of squid and squeezing a lemon over it, Starck drew on the napkin his famous lemon squeezer."

At the end of the 19th century a large number of different models of lemon squeezers have been patented in the u. s.. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office lists over 200 patents for lemon squeezers, the majority of which have been registered between 1880 and 1910. The oldest of these patents was issued to Lewis P. Chichester on July 3, 1860 for a cast iron squeezer. The stated aim of the invention was "you purchased a simple, economical and durable implement whereby lemons may be squeezed for domestic purposes with a lot less power and with far greater facility than by the ordinary squeezers in general use."[2
The premise of the lemon squeezer is simple: Pressure is exerted on a lemon to force its juice and pulp from its rind; the juice and pulp often escape through a filter or sieve. The squeezer itself ought to resist the pressure, so soft, easily deformable materials cannot be used. Because the lemon juice is very acidic, the squeezer can only be made of acid-resistant materials.