DIY Apple Cider Press | How to make your own Apple Cider 

Glad it was helpful!

Let me know how it goes!

You’re welcome hope it helps if you try to build one

You bet hope it works for you!

Good point.

Gluing those face joints would also distribute the force and eliminate the splitting. As long as you aren't concentrating all that force between grain lines, that lumber should hold.

Good to know! Thanks.

Lol yes you can elevate it on anything.

Absoultely not. It's a big investment, but cider just doesn't taste right unless you make it on the back of a pickup truck. If it's a diesel truck, that's even better.

If you don’t grind them what works really well is freezing them first cause they are softer when you thaw them

@@JacksonBaumgartOutdoors I try to avoid that. I don’t have enough room to freeze them and I try to make process as simple as possible. I made sturdy press from steel because I have other use for it. I made a test press with apples I bought from store. I pressed them as whole and got a bit over 1l of juice from 1.5kg of apples. I could have got propably even more but apples started to squeeze between the pipe and my oak pressing plate. I tried with and without filtering sack, but both failed about the same time. The problem is that stainless pipes are not exactly round and with higher pressing pressures, apples seem to go through less than 1mm gap. I’ll make couple of more tests an try to solve the problem. I may try a plastic bucket with a concrete and rebars to get tighter fit, or more traditional wood and rims. The taste of the juice didn’t change much towards the end, which is a good sign. Brute force seems to work well in this. I used 12t jack and used maybe half of the power before leaks appeared.

@@teropiispala2576 yea give it a try.

@@JacksonBaumgartOutdoors seems to be that apples like to come out as a mist from smallest of holes just about same pressure where juice leave from chunks. I'm not giving up yet, since I have a next idea. I make a top and bottom lid on my steel tube and seal them with o-rings. Then I make a piston from another stainless pipe, which is slightly smaller than the bigger tube, like 270mm and 230mm. I weld a bottom on the piston and fill it with concrete to make it solid. Then I can straighten with my lathe. It'll seal on the top lid with o-ring. I put fine stainless mesh on the outer tube walls. This has several benefits in addition of superior tightness. It don't pack apple mush under the piston but keeps it on move as it squeeze on the sides. This hopefully keeps channels open for a juice to flow. Also, surface area where juice flows out keeps constant and relatively larger and thickness of juice layer smaller. If that won't work, I give up and grind my apples.

True that would maybe make it stronger you think?

It was like a couple pieces of metal framing. Freezing the apples first helped a lot

@@JacksonBaumgartOutdoors thank you so much!

You could definitely put any container you want to capture it. A bucket would work

Tastes just like the cider I’ve got at the store.

In America cider is apple juice

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Used some metal on a bolt for my drill attachment. I found it wasn't really powerful enough unless I froze the apples first.

I honestly wouldn’t know. Didn’t weight or pay attention to those details sorry.

Probably not honestly. I just figured it’s worth the extra 5 bucks for the peace of mind

@@JacksonBaumgartOutdoors probably yea though because you're mixing in the bucket with sharpened metal. regular buckets you get from the home depot or wherever use cheaper plastic and the metal attachement youve fashioned is very likely scraping the sides and cutting away plastic which gets into the juice. food grade is a lot more durable and less likely to introduce plastic waste into your final product (though it still will if you let the metal hit the walls, no plastic bucket is perfect).

Not to mention his all thread metal alloy that is clearly not FOOD GRADE SAFE.

True probably could have more boards on top

I used a similar type of bag, but cheesecloth is a good idea in the future.

Americans call apple juice cider for some insane reason

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Why is that any of your business, creep?