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

[Bruce Freeman]

Actually, dropping a tree on it isn't far from one very traditional
process -- a press that was a massive thing like a log.  I think I
have an illustration of one of these somewhere.

But a vast refinement was a "mill wheel" of stone that rolled around
in an annular trough.  I have photos of one of these in someone's yard
in France.  Through the center of the stone was a shaft that was
mounted on one end on a swivel.  A horse walked the shaft around the
circle, and the stone rolled over the fruit (as likely pears as apples
in France).  The juice tricked out into some container.  Not exactly
aseptic, but since much of this was fermented anyway, the yeast would
kill off the bacteria.

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> You're right Mike, after I paid to get 4 bushels of apples up here I'd have
> to take on a part time job to cover it so taking the time to run it through
> the Kitchen aid juicer would be slow. I suppose I could have my sister run
> the apples through the folk's juicer and ship the juice up a LOT cheaper not
> to mention the labour savings involved in having my lil'sister do the work.
> <grin>
>
> So, I take it you don't like the idea of dropping a tree on a bunch of
> apples?
> Jer
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 5:53 AM
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: The hard cider is good... OT:
>
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>>                                                           /V\
>> mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
>> http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
>
>
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Bruce
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