[TheForge] Re: The hard cider is good... OT:

[Mike Spencer]

With reference to:

me> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/temp/cider-press.html

CGRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:

> On 10/24/2010 4:50 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>> Geez you guys are getting complicated! Can't I just use the juicer
>> attachment on my Kitchen Aid mixer?
>>
>> Jer
>
>
> Gee Jerry, consider who you are talking with..
> A simple solution? Come on man get real.

Ha!  If you think my cider press is bizarre, wait till you see my
grout pump.  I thought I could just, you know, rent one.  No way. Even
the Brit-trained FOAF stone mason doesn't know where there is one.  Feh.

So I built one.  Runs on compressed air, includes an orange plastic
street-hockey ball as a moving part.  Goes through the motions but I
have yet to test it with actual wet, sloppy cement.  Pics, eventually,
if it works.

But Frosty, would you want to run 4 bushels of apples at one go
through your Kitchen Aid mixer?  Or your blender?  Not that any
consumer blender would stand up to it.  Ya gotta pay maybe $700 and up
to get a *real* blender these days. Yeah, every blacksmith ought to
have one of these:

   http://www.tailgatorzone.com/features.html

Only I want a stainless steel hopper on mine.


- Mike

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