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Bladder Apples? Who Knew?

2024-11-30

Before I get into the apple processing for this year, I'd like to show you one of the Candy Cane Mashua tubers that we grew this year. They have some really nice colors. Also, this variety produced the best out of the three we trialed (note the lack of oversight for the summer, etc., so take that with a grain of salt), but more on that later.

This is a new process for our apples this year. We had been borrowing a traditional apple press (wood slat sides, acme screw to compress, wood blocks as needed) from our neighbors, Tom and Sheila ... Thank you for that! But, since we seem to be getting apples each year (sometimes more, sometimes less) and have had some very nice hard cider resulting from them, we decided to get our own press this year. It turned out to be a tough decision between a traditional press with which we have had great experiences, or something unknown but well reviewed ... like a bladder press. There were a number of reasons that we finally decided on the bladder press. I found one relatively cheap (compared to most prices we saw), it was stainless steel and painted metal for most of the device, and it took no effort beyond turning a valve to press the apples. Wow! Well, I was still pretty concerned that we would not get nearly as much juice from the same amount of apples. After all, I can REALLY crank down hard on an acme screw to dry out that apple pulp! The bladder press uses a meager 30 to 40 psi of water to push against the apples to dislodge the juice. Hardly seems like a fair competition. Oh well, we went for it. And, Dang! We were blown away! We basically got way more juice from way less apples with this press compared to the traditional press. Who knew?????? Well, lots of people, apparently.


We also ignored a device to crush the apples, but instead used a SS paint mixer (actually designed for food use). We cut apples into pieces (mostly an apple corer that cuts out the core and cuts the apple into about 8 sections) and then tossed them into a bucket and crushed them as best we could with the mixer attached to a battery drill gun. It worked, but was pretty time consuming and tiring. Need a better method for that next year. You can see the mixer in use in the first pic. The second shows the bladder press. The third pic shows the press being filled with crushed apple pieces.

The first pic below is the press filled with apple pulp (it is a five gallon press, and we don't have that many apples to process). The picture next to it shows the apple pulp left after pressing it to remove the juice, and you can see the bladder in the center. If you do the math for the 30 or 40 psi, which is pounds per square inch, there are a LOT of square inches around that bladder!

Below is a short video of the press in action. Beside it is a pic of our cider in the stainless steel fermenter on its way to becoming hard cider.

Bladder Apples? Who Knew?

2024-11-30

Before I get into the apple processing for this year, I'd like to show you one of the Candy Cane Mashua tubers that we grew this year. They have some really nice colors. Also, this variety produced the best out of the three we trialed (note the lack of oversight for the summer, etc., so take that with a grain of salt), but more on that later.




This is a new process for our apples this year. We had been borrowing a traditional apple press (wood slat sides, acme screw to compress, wood blocks as needed) from our neighbors, Tom and Sheila ... Thank you for that! But, since we seem to be getting apples each year (sometimes more, sometimes less) and have had some very nice hard cider resulting from them, we decided to get our own press this year. It turned out to be a tough decision between a traditional press with which we have had great experiences, or something unknown but well reviewed ... like a bladder press. There were a number of reasons that we finally decided on the bladder press. I found one relatively cheap (compared to most prices we saw), it was stainless steel and painted metal for most of the device, and it took no effort beyond turning a valve to press the apples. Wow! Well, I was still pretty concerned that we would not get nearly as much juice from the same amount of apples. After all, I can REALLY crank down hard on an acme screw to dry out that apple pulp! The bladder press uses a meager 30 to 40 psi of water to push against the apples to dislodge the juice. Hardly seems like a fair competition. Oh well, we went for it. And, Dang! We were blown away! We basically got way more juice from way less apples with this press compared to the traditional press. Who knew?????? Well, lots of people, apparently.


We also ignored a device to crush the apples, but instead used a SS paint mixer (actually designed for food use). We cut apples into pieces (mostly an apple corer that cuts out the core and cuts the apple into about 8 sections) and then tossed them into a bucket and crushed them as best we could with the mixer attached to a battery drill gun. It worked, but was pretty time consuming and tiring. Need a better method for that next year. You can see the mixer in use in the first pic. The second shows the bladder press. The third pic shows the press being filled with crushed apple pieces.








The first pic below is the press filled with apple pulp (it is a five gallon press, and we don't have that many apples to process). The picture next to it shows the apple pulp left after pressing it to remove the juice, and you can see the bladder in the center. If you do the math for the 30 or 40 psi, which is pounds per square inch, there are a LOT of square inches around that bladder!






Below is a short video of the press in action. Beside it is a pic of our cider in the stainless steel fermenter on its way to becoming hard cider.






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Merchants of Poison Report final 12/05/2022

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Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

Song and Lyrics © 2010 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

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