How to juice a cucumber.
 

No, that's not the latest title from Oprah's book club. I actually need advice on how to juice a cucumber without a juicer. We had a juicer. It sat unused for years. We finally donated it a couple weeks ago. Now I need to juice cucumbers.

The best I've come up with is to go at it in a food processor and strain it, but any other suggestions would be appreciated.

Grate it on a box grater into a bowl (lined with cheesecloth) and then squeeze.

Failing that, get your juicer back. :-)

Ooh, I like that. Anything to avoid dragging the Cuissinart out.

Blender and strain it.

This too, but I would add a touch of water to help it along

[Fills in for Kevy with somewhat inappropriate joke]

Seriously, though, what fer do you need the cucumber juice?

Dood. We had that damn juicer for 7 years. Used it twice. Took up space in our soon-to-be-baby's-room since then. And the thing was HUGE.

I can't believe you have an actual need for it....2 weeks after I got rid of it. At least cheesecloth takes up a lot less space.

You can also rub it over one of those japanese ginger graters (the ones that look like a prickly board) and then squeeze that pulp through a cloth as well (a brand new, well washed chux cloth or similar fills in for cheesecloth very well)

Of course. Chux cloth. I'll just run out to my local, umm, chux monger and get some.

Chux cloth seems like something you would catch barf with.

CHUX

...but ROTFL on the comments. :D

You still have those? I haven't seen those around since I was about 10! Cool!

Secret government project.

I tried a few methods, eventually settled on blender + cheese cloth. Did the trick, albeit a little tedious (I made a LOT of cucumber juice).

Now, anyone need a few pounds of dry cucumber pulp?

I'm pretty sure you're under some sort of obligation to tell us what it's for since you took the advice. It's a sort of payment thing. Right? Am I right? Come on... don't be a such a tease. :D ;)

How to juice a cucumber.
 

Very carefully

Okay, I wanted to make sure the experiment worked before saying anything.

While in San Francisco, being lame Top Chef fan geeks, we had dinner at Hubert Keller's Fleur de Lys, a VERY nice restaurant. We had an outstanding meal.

Being there with 2 preggies who couldn't enjoy the wine pairings, our waiter offered to have the bar make them a non alcoholic drink. What he brought was really really good. Muddled basil, agave, cucumber juice, pineapple juice. He also mentioned that when making it with booze they use Hendick's gin (a slightly cucumbery gin) and vodka.

So I set about trying to reproduce the non-alky version and make a good alky version. And I must say I did a pretty good job!

Deelish!

Yummy!