What do you guys think of this apple shredder?

[jambop]

It's only since the middle of the 20th century that stainless equipment has been available, before that most cider had some metal contamination. These days most people prefer to avoid any risk, you can make a home made drum scratter with a wood cylinder or buy an expensive SS apple mill like I did eventually, or even take a risk on a fruit mill from alibaba.

I am making cider for fun with apples from my garden and so there is no way I would be spending money a pulper. I saw one comes in at nearly 1000€ ... effectively a garden shredder with a stainless cutting disc and blades although those who have shelled out for them disagree and say they are special I will admit to making a mistake, I bought a hand scratter before I remembered I had the shredder so am down 60€ although I should be able to sell it. I only used it once, it does work but just like that maximiser unit the apple pieces are really too big and it needs double scratting the shredder is really good and presses very well. I just need to sort the cutting disc situation out so no biggie .

 

[MtnGoatJoe]

So, I am very happy with the grinder, but I don't have anything to compare it to. The "big" chunks I noticed are actually pretty thin. They have a picture on their website that shows the difference between whole and ground apples. They say about 3x more juice. I'll try to pay more attention this year and see if I notice big chunks.

So, I picked about 17 gallons of Gravenstiens last weekend, and pressed them 6 days later into just over 3.5 gallons of juice. None of the pulp I saw was particularly large, and I am VERY pleased with the results.

If it was just me without any help, then I'd be looking for some kind of automatic scratter. But with help, I can pulp apples VERY quickly. Three people pulping, one turning the grinder and two feeding apples, could easily outpace one or two people running the press.

Four people split as needed between grinding and pressing could process a LOT of apples very quickly.