What a heart-warming video! I have just replaced our washing machine and a friend recommended using the drum from the old one as the body of a cider press. It is rust-proof and already has liquid drainage holes!
I would make breads and pies and other baked goods with the leftover mash. You could even remix some squash recipes with it. There’s also a type of stew that requires the mash to make it. It gets cooked with a couple pork hocks to start it out. The meat will release all the fat into it and you make a sort of gravy with it. Adding water when necessary, you don’t want it to burn. Once the hock is cooked everything gets turned off to rest so you can cut up the pork hock into pieces and add it back into the stew. Save the pork skin and fat that might be leftover. It’s almost like a crispy dessert in small portions. Add whatever veggies and seasonings you want into the stew and heat up the stew until everything is tender.
Wow those trees are incredible. My wife and I have over a hundred fruit and nut trees and are planning an apple orchard just for cider so thanks for the video. How many gallons of cider do you make on a good year?
I don’t do anything special really. I just follow the canning guidelines for how full to fill the jars, how to prepare the bottles and lids, how long to steam it in the canner and boiling the cider before bottling. I’m still drinking cider I bottled in 2020 right now. My trees really only produce every other year so it’s not uncommon for me to have a few jars left from two years ago when I’m bottling. Any time I open a jar I check to make sure it smells ok and hasn’t gone bad. Never had one go bad yet
Depends. Where I come from, alcoholic cider is called “hard cider”. You can certainly ferment cider after if that’s your thing. It’s just not my thing.
Negative Ghost Rider. Cider is simply unfiltered. Apple juice is filtered. Cider can be sweet (non-fermented & therefore non alcoholic)or hard(fermented and alcoholic).
@@krisduenzl1476 It isn’t cider in the same way grape juice isn’t wine. The US is the only country in western civilisation that uses the term hard cider. Everywhere else, it’s just cider (alcoholic) or apple juice (not alcoholic). (German = Apfelwein!). Of course, you call it what you like, that’s fine, America has a habit of altering the meanings of words. But, when posting to a global audience, anyone not from the US will think half of the video is missing - we expect alcohol! Filtered or not - to most of the planet, this is just apple juice. PS - Cider has been produced in Britain and Gaul (France) since at least Roman times. We have a pretty good idea of how it’s made and what it’s called, but you do you 😘. This isn’t a slight, just some words for educational purposes.
@@randommaker439in Swedish we have different words for the pressed apples, “must”, and the the stored one with alcohol in it, “cider”. Juice is named the same as in English, but may include the meaning of “must”. A quick search told me that in the states, you say hard cider for the one with alcohol in it. Don’t think it’s the same in England.
What nonsense! I can purchase regular non-alcoholic apple cider in any grocery store. Never heard of it being alcoholic! Hot spiced cider drink on the other hand is another story!
What a heart-warming video! I have just replaced our washing machine and a friend recommended using the drum from the old one as the body of a cider press. It is rust-proof and already has liquid drainage holes!
That sounds like a great idea. It’s probably stainless steel too!
@@randommaker439 Absolutely. 🙂
Awesome can we purchase such a press from you
Thank you it was a good video! I would like to know a little more about how you did the grinder. And the presser! The both look interesting!
I would make breads and pies and other baked goods with the leftover mash. You could even remix some squash recipes with it. There’s also a type of stew that requires the mash to make it. It gets cooked with a couple pork hocks to start it out. The meat will release all the fat into it and you make a sort of gravy with it. Adding water when necessary, you don’t want it to burn. Once the hock is cooked everything gets turned off to rest so you can cut up the pork hock into pieces and add it back into the stew. Save the pork skin and fat that might be leftover. It’s almost like a crispy dessert in small portions. Add whatever veggies and seasonings you want into the stew and heat up the stew until everything is tender.
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Wow those trees are incredible. My wife and I have over a hundred fruit and nut trees and are planning an apple orchard just for cider so thanks for the video. How many gallons of cider do you make on a good year?
With my two trees I put up about 60-70 quarts a season.
Hey Mike, you mentioned that the cider can last for a few years. How do you have it stayed preserved for so long?
I don’t do anything special really. I just follow the canning guidelines for how full to fill the jars, how to prepare the bottles and lids, how long to steam it in the canner and boiling the cider before bottling. I’m still drinking cider I bottled in 2020 right now. My trees really only produce every other year so it’s not uncommon for me to have a few jars left from two years ago when I’m bottling. Any time I open a jar I check to make sure it smells ok and hasn’t gone bad. Never had one go bad yet
Why do you call it cider. It’s simply great apple juice. Cider contains alcohol. Anyway. Looks great.
So cider is supposed to be alcoholic. You’ve made apple juice. Well done.
Depends. Where I come from, alcoholic cider is called “hard cider”. You can certainly ferment cider after if that’s your thing. It’s just not my thing.
Negative Ghost Rider. Cider is simply unfiltered. Apple juice is filtered. Cider can be sweet (non-fermented & therefore non alcoholic)or hard(fermented and alcoholic).
@@krisduenzl1476 It isn’t cider in the same way grape juice isn’t wine. The US is the only country in western civilisation that uses the term hard cider. Everywhere else, it’s just cider (alcoholic) or apple juice (not alcoholic). (German = Apfelwein!).
Of course, you call it what you like, that’s fine, America has a habit of altering the meanings of words. But, when posting to a global audience, anyone not from the US will think half of the video is missing - we expect alcohol! Filtered or not - to most of the planet, this is just apple juice.
PS - Cider has been produced in Britain and Gaul (France) since at least Roman times. We have a pretty good idea of how it’s made and what it’s called, but you do you 😘. This isn’t a slight, just some words for educational purposes.
That's Apple Juice, Not Cider
My understanding is that juice is strained and cider is not - thus cider is more pulpy. How are you defining juice and cider?
@@randommaker439in Swedish we have different words for the pressed apples, “must”, and the the stored one with alcohol in it, “cider”. Juice is named the same as in English, but may include the meaning of “must”. A quick search told me that in the states, you say hard cider for the one with alcohol in it. Don’t think it’s the same in England.
@@randommaker439 Thats cider all day long where I grew up...great video.
@@simonjonsson3654 it isn’t. It needs the booze. This juice or ‘must’ needs fermenting by the natural yeast found on the apples.
In the US, what we call apple juice they call apple cider, and what we call cider they call hard apple cider.
So cider is supposed to be alcoholic. You’ve made apple juice. Well done.
Go to any cider mill. The apples come out as cider, not booze....can't fix stupid.
What nonsense! I can purchase regular non-alcoholic apple cider in any grocery store. Never heard of it being alcoholic! Hot spiced cider drink on the other hand is another story!