Fresh-squeezed lemonade slushed into icy perfection.
Bench-tested by the Will It Slush? team · Last revised July 26, 2026
Ingredients
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- Fresh Lemon Juice175 ml
- 2:1 Simple Syrup175 ml
- Water790 ml
Method
- 1.Combine in Slushi, run 50 min.
- 2.Garnish with lemon wheel + mint.
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Notes from our testing
Frozen lemonade concentrate is the most consistent base in the whole machine.
Frozen lemonade concentrate — the Minute Maid tube in the freezer aisle — is the most reliable slush base we have tested, and it is not close. It is manufactured to a fixed sugar spec, so unlike fresh lemons or store-bought bottles it hits the same Brix every single time. Mixed at the ratio on the can it lands near 11 Brix, straight in the window.
That consistency is why we recommend it as the training-wheels base in the best-ingredients guide. If you are calibrating a new machine, or testing whether a problem is your recipe or your unit, run a plain concentrate batch first. If that slushes and your recipe does not, the recipe is the variable.
Fresh-squeezed is better tasting and much less predictable. Lemon juice itself is only about 2 Brix, so essentially all your sugar is coming from syrup and you are calculating from scratch — 6 oz juice, 6 oz syrup, water to 64 oz is roughly where it lands, but lemon size and season move it.
For an adult version, 3 oz of vodka into a full concentrate batch gets you near 7% ABV without dragging the sugar below the threshold. More than that and you should be adding syrup to compensate.