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A great addition to the Weston Fruit & Wine Press....the manual Apple & Fruit Crusher simply crushes apples, pears or other hard fruits, preparing them for pressing
- Easy to turn handle makes crushing large quantities of fruit quick an easy
- Horizontal table mount or vertical corner wall mount options available
- Heavy-duty cast iron construction
- Stainless Steel chute and hardware
- Includes wood mounting base (10 inch x 17.5 inch x 1 inch)
This Manual Juicers give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Love it!
I bought this grinder to use with the Weston fruit press which I also purchased. (see copy of review below...) It worked really well. My apples are not large, so I didn't have the problem of the apples needing to be cut to feed through. Easy to use and easy to clean with a garden hose. I got just over a gallon of cider for every five gallons of whole apples. It only took about five minutes (or less) to grind each five gallon bucket. I made 25 gallons of cider in six or seven hours...
From my review of the Weston press: "After reading the positive and negative reviews, I decided to go ahead and buy the Weston press and grinder from Amazon this fall to juice apples from our trees. I found it worked very well, and in fact can't wait until next year to do it all again! Many of the issues in the negative reviews are not that big of a deal. In fact many of the complaints are simply not well founded. Yes, the ratchet only advances a quarter inch per pull, but this means...
2. You'll still have to chop the apples first.
I bought this in conjunction with the cider press. I was hoping it would take a step out of the process. While it does deliver the apples crushed to the consistency needed to make cider, you will still have to chop them before using this crusher.
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Weston Apple and Fruit Crusher
I bought a house with several apple trees on property, and wanted to make the best use of all of the apples by converting the juice into hard cider. First I attempted to grind apples for cider by using a new garbage disposal, but the disposal broke the bitter seeds open and kept overheating.
I love using this fruit crusher. I can fit all but the very largest apples into the feed chute. Anyone who has at least moderate upper body strength can easily use this to crush apples and pears. It's pretty efficient, it takes me about five minutes to crush a half-bushel of apples, which is how much my homemade press basket can handle. It's easy to clean out with a garden hose spray nozzle, and easy to disassemble for the post-season cleaning. I think it will last a while because it's quite heavy.
I would have given it five stars, but I made a few modifications to make mine easier to use. I attached a crank to the turn handle with some u-bolts so I could turn it continuously without...
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