Plaster mixer and spin dryer!

[robbym123]

Hey guys

Just wanted to share yesterdays great experience.

A buddy of mine has a few apple trees, we had been talking about making a batch of cider for a while but didnt fancy the cost of a scratter and press.

Instead, bought a plaster mixer from screwfix for £5. Sharpened the paddles on it. It really did work a treat, attached to an sds drill it reduced a big flexibucket of apples to pulp inside 10 minutes.

Next, managed to pick up a spin dryer on ebay for £1.04!. It was tatty, but after spinning jug of vvs through it a few times (and thoroughly rinsing) i was confident it was good to use.

The dryer also worked brilliantly, 2/3rds full it produced about 5 litres of juice each time. I put the apple in a BIAB bag so that only juice got through, no pulp. I was pretty happy that the remaining apple was close to bone dry.

So 90 mins and £6 for 40l of juice.

Assuming the cider works out ok, figuring out how to get hold of more apples next year.

 

[Cqr]

That's some greative brewing, :hat:

 

[yeastinfection]

Brilliant idea..liking the creativity. ..hope it doesn't taste of summer breeze.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Or sweaty socks. :lol:

 

[Tau]

When seeking the answer to the age old question "where the feck have all my socks gone?" I took an old spin dryer drum out and found shredded reminants of many a sock, bra and underwear! Lets hope those weren't in your spin dryer or you'd be getting a lot more flavours than you're expecting :lol:

 

[Chippy_Tea]

We used to have one of these years ago, we kept it in the shed and when it broke we found all sorts inside it including a mouse. :sick:

 

[robbym123]

We did think we might call the resulting brew Knicker Bocker Glory, think i'd prefer a little bit of kicker and bra aroma to the proverbial dead rat.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

:lol:

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