Apple mashing with garden shredder to make rough scrumpy Cider.

This is a 240 volt garden shredder which i use to mash up apples to make Cider. It was advertised for £10 in a free adds paper. I just took it apart and gave it a good clean. The top section was cut off to make it easier to get the apples in. The prodding stick i use has a piece of wooden batten screwed to it so it does not touch the blades of the shredder. The apples i used were left for 2 weeks outside on the ground in the field next to my house. If you leave them outside for 2 weeks they get loads more juice in them. I put them in a large dumpy sack and chopped them about with an axe to make them smaller so they fit in the shredder better. Didn't clean them or cut out any bruised bits, i expect there were a few creepy crawlys in there as well, but that's what would happen when they made it in the old days. The apples are 70%ish Kingston black(good cider apple), 30%ish of an apple i found growing by the side of the road next to the 303 near the Podimoor roundabout, and 10%ish crab apple. I have a video of the press i made, and will up load that soon. Leave a comment. If you think it's crap say so. Cheers!

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[HILUXCHAINSAW]

Do it!. It's the easiest and cheapest way i have found of mashing up apples. The first time i used it on apples i stripped it right down, blades and every thing metal coming. into contact with the apples, and gave it a good wire brushing. Now when i have finished mashing, i strip all the metal parts down and wash them again, then store them away somewhere safe in a tin filled with cooking oil. That way they don't rust, saves me having to wire brush the rust off next year.

[armadilopeter]

would have been interesting to have seen the finished mash.

[HILUXCHAINSAW]

@armadilopeter Imade another video called 'loading the cheeses on homemade scrumpy cider press'. If you search for that you will be able to see what it was like after it had been shredded. : )

[Scooterandthebees]

Quality. Been wondering about doing same or sharpening a plasterers paddle and then running through the spin dryer (dryer is effective).

[HILUXCHAINSAW]

@Scooterandthebees The other good point about using a shredder is that what comes out is more like a pulp, there are no lumps of apple at all

[filmgoing]

first class thinking about getting one.