I have read lots of different ideas about choosing apples for making your own cider. You need something like this to pound the apples as much as possible before putting them through the press so that you can get out as much juice as possible. My husband used a several foot piece of fence post that he cut off and attached a handle to at one end.
To crush the apples you will need some sort of a pounding stick. You could also use a small, clean garbage can. You will also need a large bucket such as a 5 gallon plastic container to crush your apples in. We screwed the metal legs of the press to an old wooden pallet, and that worked great. We found that we did need to bolt it down. The cider press we purchased has metal legs that you can attach to something else to keep it from moving around on you. Setting up Your Cider Pressīefore you get started making cider, you need to get your new cider press set up. Here is a list of all the different cider presses that Amazon offers for sale. This press holds enough apples to make 3 gallons of apple cider at one time. There are cheaper, smaller presses than the press we chose, but we decided that we would like to have a slightly larger one to make more cider at one time. We are also using the apple cider we made to make homemade hard apple cider. Besides using it for cider making, you can also use it for making other types of homemade juices and also for wine making. This is the cider press that we purchased. I think it took the longest to figure out which cider press to buy! Choosing a Cider Press The first time you make homemade apple cider with your new cider press it will definitely be a learning experience. Where we live there are apple trees all over the place with apples just laying on the ground going to waste. If you don’t have an apple tree in your backyard, see if one of your neighbors has an apple tree, or look around town to see if there are any apple trees on public property. Making cider from these apples is a great way to keep them from going to waste. Apple cider is often made from the apples that have fallen on the ground and gotten bruised, the apples you would normally throw away.
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One fruit (orchard) box full of apples will make a little more than one gallon of apple cider. You can buy fairly inexpensive cider presses on Amazon. Some people make their own apple cider press, but I didn’t want to go to all that effort. People make apple cider in a variety of ways. If making your own equipment isn’t for you, head over to for deals on off-the-shelf cider making tools.Making apple cider is easy if you have the right equipment. This BEKVÄM Step stool from IKEA costs under a tenner and is the perfect size and shape. Here are my plans for a small domestic cider press that can be taken to pieces for storage with total ease.įirstly the base of the press is made from a Wooden stool. However, these small steel presses are both small and expensive, whereas a bit diy can take your cider making to a whole new level. Once you have enough apple juice you can start the next stage of making you own home made cider, which is fermentation. If you raise the press off the floor by at least a foot (preferably two), the juice can pour out and into a container. The juice runs through the holes, into a container fitted with a siphon tube. A screw pushes a plate down onto the pommace which sits in a holed basket. These are basically a minaturised combination of the two types of fruit press mentioned above. This hydraulic method produces a lot of pressure is certainly effective at extracting as much juice as possible, but building a hydraulic press is a bit much for small scale amateur cidermaking.įor the rest of us a small fruit press is the best option. A thick rubber ball is inflated with water from the middle of the drum, pushing the pulp to the sides, where the juice flows from the holes. Such items are works of art as well as tools, but the construction time and cost mean that apart from a few exceptions, these have generally disappeared these days.įor modern professional, industrial-scale apple pressing many presses work by filling a heavy metal drum with lots of holes in it (like a giant washing machine drum) with the pommace. An apple press normally a large vertical frame with a big screw threaded spindle moving down to squeeze the pommance between wooden horizontal plates.
Homemade fruit presses are traditionally made by craftsmen from oak or other hard woods. A homemade or shop bought press is an essential tool. Pressing the juice from the apple pulp (pommace) is an essential step in the cider making process.
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