What a beautiful day to press apple cider. It poured rain for half the night but when we awoke this morning the sky was clear blue.
It was about 10:30 before we actually got started on the pressing.
Here's our setup:
The two tubs in front are for washing and rinsing the apples.
The grinder and press:
The ground apple mash. I am not sure that this ginder reduced the apples to a fine enough pulp or not. We tried to run it through again but that did not make it any finer and it didn't feed well. Grinding was the hardest part of the whole process. I don't know if other grinders are better or worse than this one but I think an electric motor on it would make things a lot easier.
The mash in the press:
Juice coming from the press:
Juice has been put in containers and is ready to go in the freezer. We got about 17 gallons today, we still have 4 more large boxes of apples to press.
It was a lot of work and there were 6 of us washing, rinsing, quartering and removing bad spots, grinding, pressing and filling jugs. It certainly isn't the easiest way to make cider but it was a lot of fun.
It was about 10:30 before we actually got started on the pressing.
Here's our setup:
The two tubs in front are for washing and rinsing the apples.
The grinder and press:
The ground apple mash. I am not sure that this ginder reduced the apples to a fine enough pulp or not. We tried to run it through again but that did not make it any finer and it didn't feed well. Grinding was the hardest part of the whole process. I don't know if other grinders are better or worse than this one but I think an electric motor on it would make things a lot easier.
The mash in the press:
Juice coming from the press:
Juice has been put in containers and is ready to go in the freezer. We got about 17 gallons today, we still have 4 more large boxes of apples to press.
It was a lot of work and there were 6 of us washing, rinsing, quartering and removing bad spots, grinding, pressing and filling jugs. It certainly isn't the easiest way to make cider but it was a lot of fun.
Still crying because we couldn't come!
ReplyDeleteThat's a pretty good outcome. Wonder how much we'll get this year?
Fun, fun!
ReplyDeleteWe love the cider! Lyle said it's really good.
Missed ya, Heids!