Hi, I have pounds and pounds of fruit in the summer which go to make country wines. I've seen this:
Maybe a plaster mixing paddle? Not quite the same, but still:
David
It looks like the drill chuck just fits the spindle and you hold the drill. Were you thinking of making it hands free?
It says it's a blade. That made me think about using a tiny lawnmower blade, but then I thought this sounds like the beginning of a horrific accident...
Would be unlikely to be food-grade stainless steel, though?
Those fruit pulpers *are* the beginning of a horrific accident... I have one & it's probably the scariest tool I have, including the chainsaw.
We have a vine with 160lbs of grapes. Couple of big yellow buckets (picked bunches and stripped grapes), then just a paint mixing paddle on a drill.
I do keep one clean and just for grapes!
Angle grinder.
Have only used it with apples but a clean garden shredder makes short work of pulping them. important to clean and rinse any metal parts thoroughly,a spray of Potassium metabisulfite solution before use to sterilize. If there are alloy parts as well as steel a wash down is recommended almost immediately after use.
G.Harman
As others have said, paddle mixer - from =A35:
When I was into winemaking a good few decades back, one of the books I had made a point about never using yellow plastic for anything to do with brewing...apparently the yellow dyes are toxic or cause something nasty to occur during the process.
Especially after you've used it on grass, slugs, mud, etc.
All you need is a drill with a chuck. The blade is supplied with the bucket, and its shaft sticks out through a hole in the lid - and just needs to be rotated.
But look out for fruit juicers at the likes of Lidl and Aldi. They come up in their special offers from time to time - and don't cost much more than the bucket and blade you cite - and will do a much better, and safer, job.
none of which will have have been anywhere near the fruit, of course ;-)
Depends on how long the grapes are in there. A short dunk during pulping is no big deal. A couple of weeks would be a different matter.
Expensive drill to drive it though (M14, slow speed). Mine cost me >=A3200.= You don't want to fasten it to your 9" angle grinder!
Same with black
but that's during the fermentation process, not pulping
What on earth for? You are going to ferment the result.
MBQ
Bollocks I am, I'm not making cider or wine. A couple of bottles are filled straight away and used for almost immediate consumption,the rest is put into freezer bags and frozen. Once defrosted it is drunk fairly quickly same day or no longer than the next. Some would say I would say I should pasteurize the juice but it's only for me and the missus and I'm happy to rely on using water washed undamaged Apples and thereafter relying on my taste and smell to decide if the juice is still fit to drink. But just in case some cat,rat,dog shit slugs etc have been in contact with the shredder after normal use I think as well as being visibly clean after a wash and scrub it's a good idea to sterilize it before using it as a food processor. A spray of Potassium metabisulfite solution is easy to make up and quick to apply.
G.Harman
OK, wash the lawnmower while you're washing the fruit. :-)
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