Apple Pulper
Crushing apples to a pulp is a hard but essential task in order to then press the pulp to extract the juice.
Many of us start by using a kitchen food processor, and although it is effective, it is also time consuming because the container only lets you pulp a few apples at a time.
A larger scale solution is a pulpmaster.
This is a lidded bucket with a blade decending from the lid. By attaching a common drill to the top of the bucket lid you can make the blade spin very quickly and pulp whole bucketfuls of apples in one go.
Pulpmasters can be purchased for less than £20.00
However these also have their drawbacks. If the bucked is knocked and the blade hits the walls of the bucket, or if there is a stone amongst the apples, the results can be spectacular at best and downright dangerous at worst.
Alternatively homemade pulpers are made by buidling what is essentially a mangle with nails or sharpened bolt heads sticking out of the rollers. The fruit is pushed through the gap between the rollers and pulped. These are pulping machines are also known as scratters.
Now whichever method you have used to pulp your apples, you need to extract the juice from the pulp using a cider press.