Help / Suggestion(s) for a bag to soak fruit with?

[Bubbles2]

Thanks for looking in, I need a bag to soak fruit in to extract the juice to make wine (so I think). What are you guys using? I went over to Amazoon and looked but many are not happy with what is being sold for 20+ bucks a shot...

New cotton pillowcase? I was thinking I could wring that pretty good without coming apart...I use one for making compost tea, I thought a new one would work for a fruit soak?
Peaches, Apricots, Pindo, etc,.

OR should I just run it through my OMEGA juicer? Triscating at low RPM's


Thanks for the wisdom in advance

 

[jgmillr1]

A grain bag for under $10 works well.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UZH24W0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[ong]

I use paint strainer bags for this kind of thing, although they only last for a few uses.

 

[Mallerstang]

New cotton pillowcase? I was thinking I could wring that pretty good without coming apart...I use one for making compost tea, I thought a new one would work for a fruit soak?
Peaches, Apricots, Pindo, etc,.

In my experience, regular cloth like a pillowcase gets clogged up surprisingly fast. The first wine batch I ever made, I tried using a flour sack tea towel to strain and squeeze out blackberry pulp, and it just became like a water balloon - you can wring it, squeeze it, leave it to drip, and nothing gets through. So you lose a lot of the juice.

I ended up buying a mesh bag from the local wine supply store. Actually two of them, and they work great.

 

[nik2]

Paint strainer bags are great. They do wash well, but aren't that expensive in the first place anyway.

 

[Bubbles2]

A grain bag for under $10 works well.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UZH24W0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

But I get negative feed back from those who have bought those... Hence me asking here
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UZH24W0/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[Bubbles2]

Paint strainer bags are great. They do wash well, but aren't that expensive in the first place anyway.

Are you concerned about by products? PCB's, non food grade equipment when you cook?

 

[Bubbles2]

In my experience, regular cloth like a pillowcase gets clogged up surprisingly fast. The first wine batch I ever made, I tried using a flour sack tea towel to strain and squeeze out blackberry pulp, and it just became like a water balloon - you can wring it, squeeze it, leave it to drip, and nothing gets through. So you lose a lot of the juice.

I ended up buying a mesh bag from the local wine supply store. Actually two of them, and they work great.

Thanks for saving me the trip to TJmex and wasting 6 bucks! LOL

 

[nik2]

Are you concerned about by products? PCB's, non food grade equipment when you cook?

No, maybe I should think about that more than I do, but they feel 'cleaner' than muslin (of which I have several nasty looking bags that I doubt I'll ever use again). The wine making tends to be always cold water - I don't heat stuff up much (although I do use them in jam making, which is very hot). When I first heard about them it was from the beer forums and BIAB, and that's boiling the wort. Nobody seems to worry about it there.

 

[Bubbles2]

No, maybe I should think about that more than I do, but they feel 'cleaner' than muslin (of which I have several nasty looking bags that I doubt I'll ever use again). The wine making tends to be always cold water - I don't heat stuff up much (although I do use them in jam making, which is very hot). When I first heard about them it was from the beer forums and BIAB, and that's boiling the wort. Nobody seems to worry about it there.

Oxy clean does a great job of cleaning the muslin bags...I do not like to use bleach on that product either. However stains don't bother me, so many of mine are tinted. I might be using those to load fruit into even if I have to sew cheese cloth to make a sack to do it..

 

[hamiltonkiler]

Petic enzyme, rack off, fill up, pitch yeast.