The apple pulper works fine. An old $10 waste disposal unit, taken apart and cleaned up and then reassembled. Now in its own collapsable stand. It can be lifted in and out for portability and sits in a small aluminium sink. After about the 8th apple the pulped up apples start sliding out the bottom tube. Each whole apple takes about 5-10 seconds to become mush. The pulping will be over in a few hours rather than the 2 days processing through the food processor. The WD unit must be easily 20+ years old and is solid so should handle a bit of abuse.
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.
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.
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
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(this guys rig is almost like the one I am building however mine is a collapsable version)
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?v=Eezq04UsuTYor you can try making one of these if you want to (good luck)
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?v=O7qB_NXFhg0or you can try it this way, I did and hence the waste disposal unit.
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