Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Fri, 6 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 06/12/2024 08:56, D wrote:

  On Thu, 5 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 10:22:53 +0100, D wrote:
 

Hmm, I wonder if it is difficult to make? My wifes father has about 15
apple trees or so in the country side and gets more apples than he can
deal with.

 https://www.instructables.com/How-to-make-cider/
 That would work for small quantities. The person we got cider from had a
hopper that fed the apples into a drum with screws sticking out and used
the tractor PTO to run the drum but he was large scale. The press was
essentially the same but larger with a jackscrew rather than a hydraulic
jack.
 

 Interesting! That could be a project for next summer. On the other hand, for every liter of cider, I'd be giving up a liter of apple juice in the morning. =/

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That is indeed a problem. At one time we (me and the ex) tried all that an created gallons of apple juice and indeed pear juice for ourselves family and friends. One set of friends apples was emptied  into plastic milk bottles and destined for cider, but it proved too tempting and was drunk within a month.
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I was recovering from a tumour operation at that point and was on seriously concrete butt plugging pain relief.
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I drank a couple of points of pear juice. Delicious. And unbeknownst to me Natures best laxative...

Pear juice? Had no idea! I do know though, that after enjoying fresh pressed apple juice, most, if not all, store bought juice tastes awful. I am also not a fan of the filtered apple juice you get on planes, which probably comes down to the previous statement.