Cider apple pulper update

Roll on easter to try it out.

Next project is to build a nice sturdy frame for the apple press. I have built a proper wooden pulp basket and only need the stand for it to sit on and its a proper job finished.

Aluminum will impart a foul taste to acetic fruit.

How will you separate the solids from the juice? And how will you prevent oxidation? Here in upstate NY there are many cider operations, all press whole apples and bottle the extracted juice immediately. I don't see how you can make cider from apple mush. Seems to me all you're doing is ruining apples.

I don't think you could ever clean up a used garbage disposal enough for me to trust its output for human consumption. There must be a better way....

gloria p

Well done Rob, but where are the pics so we can see it?

Sheesh! How do you think the Brits used to made cider? It's a drink that the Brits have made famous centuries ago. They made cider long before there was a place called New York and their old presses are lumbering and slow and their bottling isn't 'immediate'.

do a youtube search - a dozen or more examples. Mine was stripped right down and buffed back to clean metal, water blasted and put through an extended dish wash. As far as crushing apples goes, there isn't an easier or better way that I can see.

rob

aluminium sink is what the waste disposer fits within on the frame. Nothing to do with the pulping of the apples.

check out cider making on the net. The mush has to be pressed to extract the juice and is strained in the process. Oxidisation isn't a real problem. Put it in these terms, the chance of apples oxidising after been put through a food processor and then stood as the laborious process is repeated time and again is far greater than a few minutes filling a bucket with freshly pulped apples. If anything, using a waste disposer dramatically reduces any oxidisation of the apples. From whole apple to the press to the fermentation cask in a matter of minutes. You tube it and you will see how the process goes. Piece of cake

rob

Better still, here are some links you can start with

Dudes using waste disposers - check how quickly from apple to juice in the fermenter

on my cellphone at present

rob