mincing apples, ready to press

[vinceg]

Afternoon all, I have been given 3 boxes of bramleys to make some cider with. I have a nice fruit press but no means of mincing them up in the first place to put in the press.....other than food processor which would take about half a dozen apples at a time!

I recall seeing some sort of tool on the Net somewhere which basically attached to the end of a domestic drill and had a blade on the end of it that you shoved into your apples and that minced them up nicely. Can't for the life of me remember what this device was called and having spent the last hour or so trawling through the usual homebrew sites I buy from I can't see anything.

Does anybody know the device I'm referring to and can they tell me where I can purchase one!

Thanks

[Trunky]

[vinceg]

That's the baby! It's on order! Thanks Trunky

[DREADSKIN]

its a bit crap. i tried using it this year. you have to chop them, then blitz them with that blade thing. your best bet for that amount of apples is a bit of 2x4 and some elbow grease

[Trunky]

It's a perfectly good bit of kit, whack the apples with a hammer or quarter them first. I processed at least a hundred kilos this way before buying a bigger press and getting a proper scratter. Your Bramley cider will be very acidic (as will any cider from either eaters or cookers), might be worth trying a yeast that can reduce the acidity as part of it's 'duties' dried wine yeast BIOFERM MALIC from http://www.brouwland.com/en/ will do just that by converting the Malic acid to Lactic acid, or a malo-lactic fermentaion might happen on it's own in the spring.

[Mitchamitri]

I get on great with the pulp master, its all about technique. Got a mate who said his was crap until I showed him the best way to use it (quarter or slice, pulp half a bucket, top up to 2/3, pulp, top up to top, pulp). leave pulp overnight with pectolase then press.