English Kitchen Garden Apple Press
When your apple trees produce SO many apples you don't know what to do with them all, you can press them for fresh apple juice.
I spent a morning putting this baby together (it came flat-packed with instructions that make IKEA stuff look child's play).
We have three apple trees. The earliest is called Newton Wonder and it is already ripe and dropping fruit.
What's really great is that the fruit can be bruised a bit without affecting the taste at all, so fallen fruit is fine. This is this morning's harvest of fallen fruit from Newton Wonder. A quick rinse off, then into that mangle thing at the top of the press to chop the apples up and then press. Like magic (with a bit of elbow grease)- fresh apple juice that freezes brilliantly. If we were willing to wait for it to ferment, we could make our own hard cider.
The crushed pulp goes onto the compost heap and makes beautiful soil for next year's kitchen garden.
