Re: Homegrown, homemade apple cider!!
There is a thing you put the apples in that turns and grinds them up. It has a hand crank which someone disabled and it is powered by a little motor. The apple mush falls into a bucket type thing with no bottom (we use a bit of cheesecloth but some pieces still come out).
Some cider comes out while the mash is going into the bucket, but most comes when we slide the bucket down and put a piece of wood in the bucket and turn a handle to press the juice out. So it is a plain ol' press with no freezing involved.
I bet you could use a blender or food processer and squeeze the resulting mash with something heavy... just use lots of plastic tarps so the resulting goodness doesn't get soaked into the wood! It would be a lot of work that way, though.
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