home made apple juice, help pleeese

feefeelalabelle

hi all, it seems im becoming very found of the old style board but spend most of mtime lurking, ive been reading through your extensive thread about apples...........................


i know that come summer i will have a plentyful supply of cooking apples. I would love to be able to make my own juice, if any of you kind people could be so kind to tell me how you go about it all as last year was a bit of a disaster.I somehow need to preserve the apple juice so it doesnt go off so quick

i do have a vigo pulpmaster, bottles and well thats about it really.

i would love to kit myself out properly to last for the years to come.

thanks guys x

RAS

You need to pasteurise the juice. 25 minutes at 75 degrees C I think, off the top of my head but do check.

feefeelalabelle

ive read that also, think your right, i dont have any pans big enough to make it economical, i would be boiling a couple of bottles at a time . is there a good way to get the juice out of the apples or a method for the whole process which you use

RAS

For small scale stuff we use this http://www.amazon.com/Super-Shred-Vegetable-Slicer-Rigamonti/dp/B001SCV74C

It works better than the scratter from Vigo.

You can make a press from a tray or two and a car jack if needs be or scrap wood. Try this for the basic idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plQdYZjpc8I

The amount of juice you get depends on how finely the apple is shredded; although torn cells produce more juice than neatly cut ones.

The scratter only produces about 30 percent juice by volume of pulp. The supershred is 60 percent. Putting it through the big yellow pulper is more like 80 percent.

lostinrates

I have never pasturised mine, i juice and then freeze it, i have a freezer the size of a small country, should i pasturise it too?

feefeelalabelle

lostinrates wrote: »

I have never pasturised mine, i juice and then freeze it, i have a freezer the size of a small country, should i pasturise it too?

no your fine, you can just freeze it, i just wanted to bottle it so it looks pretty lol and obviously keeps for a year or so, can i be cheeky and ask your method of juicing xx


gonna read through and have a proper nosey at all your suggestions xx

nuatha

You could look at American canning sites.
http://pickyourown.org/applejuice.htm seems to have a simple to follow method.
Unfortunately pressure canning kit seems rather expensive in the UK.

lostinrates

feefeelalabelle wrote: »

no your fine, you can just freeze it, i just wanted to bottle it so it looks pretty lol and obviously keeps for a year or so, can i be cheeky and ask your method of juicing xx


gonna read through and have a proper nosey at all your suggestions xx

Yes, i just use a juicer plastic milk bottles and into the freezer. Takes two days, is sticky and messy, and i sometimes defrost apple juice instead of milk:rotfl:. the other annoying thing is that you have to work really quickly to get it bottled and in the freezer before in turns brown.

Dh wants to make cider really, but only he drinks it.

kippers

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, i just use a juicer plastic milk bottles and into the freezer. Takes two days, is sticky and messy, and i sometimes defrost apple juice instead of milk:rotfl:. the other annoying thing is that you have to work really quickly to get it bottled and in the freezer before in turns brown.

Dh wants to make cider really, but only he drinks it.

I freeze in small water bottles and then pop one in my dd's lunch boxes the night before. I find you need to give it a good shake before you drink it as it is always cloudy. Apparently you can filter it before bottling but i have read this takes some of the goodness out of it. It is always cloudy when we press our apples, we have never managed to get clear juice...but this doesn't bother us.

I use a small apple press. I pulp the apples first in my food processor.

lostinrates

kippers wrote: »

I freeze in small water bottles and then pop one in my dd's lunch boxes the night before. I find you need to give it a good shake before you drink it as it is always cloudy. Apparently you can filter it before bottling but i have read this takes some of the goodness out of it. It is always cloudy when we press our apples, we have never managed to get clear juice...but this doesn't bother us.

I use a small apple press. I pulp the apples first in my food processor.

Thats a superb idea. I don't have children, but if i did i would certainly consider this! We tend to use ours in cocktails, or for when we have visiting people, so defrost a big milk bottle at a time to pour into a jug.

feefeelalabelle

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, i just use a juicer plastic milk bottles and into the freezer. Takes two days, is sticky and messy, and i sometimes defrost apple juice instead of milk:rotfl:. the other annoying thing is that you have to work really quickly to get it bottled and in the freezer before in turns brown.

Dh wants to make cider really, but only he drinks it.

do you find that you get much juice from just juicing them, the last time i tried i was chopping cutting, boiling, straining.....mmm:o was it unecessary (sp?)