Making backyard apple cider with a Weston Fruit Press

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• SA

  @sandraethier5550 · 2 years ago

  We have a small f+f butcher shop and it boasts a large meat grinder. I put the sausage plate on and man it's slick😊

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• RA

  @ramtharthegreat · 3 years ago

  I have had the same press about 10 years, and your video is the first time i have seen it run even reasonably well. I think my pointed teeth pieces in the mechanism need polished up so they move easier. I really despise this press, but decided to use it again this year became my kids want to and my orchard isn't producing well enough yet to justify the "real" $1200 press.

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• AN

  @annebrasher302 · 2 years ago

  Thank you

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• JO

  @johnoconnor722 · 2 years ago

  Connect a power drill to your grinder, makes it very easy to crush the apples.

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• RR

  @RRaucina · 1 year ago

  this is a mini version of 100 years of Italian presses. Compared to the vevo and other china junk, it is made with all the right features. Dont even consider a press without a basket that  is split with pins.  and the ratchet mechanism is totally unknown in all the other small presses.

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• B-

  @B-DTravels · 2 years ago

  Bladder Press FTW

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• SA

  @sandraethier5550 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Cut yourself a big washer out of  1/2 inch silicone to put between the wood and crank to avoid messing up crisscrossed pcs. Also remember to keep crank clean of sticky residue and lubricated with something slippery so that the plate with all the holes stays still. Really want all the juice? Patience. Wait a half hour between ratcheting 10 ×s  and you get another litre. We feed the leavings to the crawdads, they love em

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• BR

  @briananderson6758 · 2 years ago

  Surely there’s an adapter to put a drill on that apple grinder?

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• PE

  @petewerner1494 · 2 years ago

  So, what to do with the apple scrat after it's been pressed???  Put into a container, add some clean water and make apple cider vinegar out of it!  Absolutely no waste!

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• RE

  @redsresearch · 1 year ago

  Dont you have 2 heat it on stove b4 drinking it???

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• JE

  @jedklampet7471 · 2 years ago

  is there a hole in the mesh bag

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• BR

  @briananderson6758 · 2 years ago

  What kind of press and where did you get yours?

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