How many here remember the song we sang on the school bus: The prettiest girl I ever saw was sippin cider through a straw?

Lovely to see that you plan on doing the pressing yourselves. Thanks to your parents! A gift that keeps on giving...

That cider looks delicious. I'm glad you're on the self-sufficiency path Ariel.

I enjoyed the video. It was nice to see Micah and it was very generous of your parents to gift you with the new equipment. That cider looked delicious.

@tinathene

8 ай бұрын

So cool

Interesting, useful and beautiful, Yes. Always great to see and hear about your homesteading life. All the best to you, Ariel, and those you love. Special hugs for Burley.

On a trip to YP back in '62, we stopped off at a cider stand just as we exited Texas. Not knowing any better, we set it on the floor of the car as we drove north into Oklahoma. It was hot and the cider fermented and we ended up drunk as lords as we camped that night. So hammered that we didn't notice a Blue Norther heading our way---we just sat on our cots feeding the swarms of mosquitoes. When it hit, my buddy jumped in his car for shelter, buttoned it up, and woke up the next morning literally covered from head to toe with welts. I didn't fare much better as I went under our tarp-fly. Never again; but I still love apple cider in it's unadulterated state.

@klazyy641

8 ай бұрын

I believe it's called Apple Jack. More like a jackhammer hit you the next morning!

I really enjoyed watching your 1st apple and apple cider Harvest!!! You all are amazing! ThankYou for sharing!!!!

I remember visiting my uncle’s farm when I was a kid… I was very worried about any worms that might be in the apples that would get pressed right into the delicious juice. My uncle was a funny Irish man who delivered his often hilarious thoughts with a straight face…. So, he said to me: “It’s very important to get some protein added to the juice…that makes the vitamins in the apples work better! I felt sooo much better after hearing that! 😂🤢. To this day… I find myself still wanting but still resisting fresh apple juice or cider. 😅

I love that your parents bought something for you that is so useful. They're the best type of presents I think! ❤

Let it set around for a few weeks, it gets gooder..

The cider looks so delicious that I can almost taste it. What a beautiful place to live. Thanks for sharing.

I can just imagine drinking your fresh cider!

What a fun project to share on a beautiful fall day! Yum-yum

Crabapple jam is so yummy.

What a wonderful gift from your ma and pop. Y’all will have that equipment for years to come way past their time on the earth.

Howdy neighbor. I'm a couple hundred miles north of you. (Big Horn Basin) That press is impressive. I've priced them where I'd rather build my own. Expensive! I assume the 'mother' is retained? You ever make fire cider? My first batch is 'cooking' now. Anxious to see if I start a forest fire. 🙂

Looking good! Your apples are so pretty!

A very satisfying video and surely a satisfying experiment with the apple pressing.

That’s fascinating - in the UK 🇬🇧 we’d call that apple juice. Cider over here always refers to fermented apple juice. After googling it, you call that hard cider ? And what you were drinking is soft cider? Interesting how the meaning is slightly different in different countries 👍🏻

@christineb8148

8 ай бұрын

I think the difference between juice and cider here in the US is that cider is fresh and unfiltered and unpasteurized, where juice will usually be shelf stable and filtered. All of the cider that I have had is tangier than juice is so I think the natural bacteria on the skins will make it slightly fermented anyway, although not technically hard. It becomes hard VERY easily if you let it haha!

@sarkybugger5009

8 ай бұрын

@@christineb8148 Some farms over here in the UK sell unprocessed cider called rough scrumpy, or used to, at least. Cloudy, unpasteurised, and generally very strong. A couple of pints of that stuff, and you know you've had a drink. Only problem is that it doesn't keep for more than a few days, without turning into vinegar.

@jrcriner6542

8 ай бұрын

Nice looking press. Looks like it probably came from the Lehmans store in Ohio. I have a big cider press that is about 100 years old and is made of oak and cast iron. I would post a picture of it but I don’t see any way to do a picture here

bugs adding protein .. haha Clay 😂 Nice video and informative, thanks for sharing Ariel.

I love apple cider ❤wow that’s the most natural organic way of doing them

Love the Cider press! Hen's fall picnic! 👍😎🇨🇦🍎🍏🍅🍏🍅🍏🍎

What a wonderful gift. That cider looks so delicious. I've been wanting a cider press for a while now. Maybe soon. Good to see your brother there helping you.

Love seeing your experiments with your apple press. Enjoy!

This brought tears to my eyes, seeing you make the most of a harvest and (I'm sure) being ready to do so in the future. Good job!!!

When I was a kid, our neighbor had a wooden press to make apple cider. So delicious. They would first press the apples for the first extraction. Then they would keep the pressure on for a few days. It was always late fall so temperatures were low. I don't remember how much more they were able to extract. Just an idea though, perhaps.

So awesome to see! Thanks for sharing!

Living in San Diego north county I used to take a daytrip to Julian, CA Farmer's Apple orchard for pie, cider, and a pumpkin. Yum

i love watchin you from BC Canada

Ate crab apples growing up...loved the tartness down South...my childhood in the 60's.....good to see Burley doing well in previous video about awful grass with roots going through potatoes.

Use to do this 50 years ago in a big wooden slated barrel with wood blocks to press. Was the best drinking cider rather than this pasteurized cider of today!

Happy Autumn! I imagine that smells terrific. We're still getting tomatoes here.

The Cider press reminds me of my grandfather's winepress for grapes during prohibition just a lot larger

I can almost taste the apple cider.

I love you allow us to learn from the good and the mistakes. Lol. Good going. Bottoms up.

Looks like a fun process besides being very efficient to use up maybe less than ideal apples.

Enjoyed watching your video,we drink a/c with the mother in the cider vinegar,so good😊🍁🍁🍂

Great video. Thanks!

Ariel, I really enjoyed your first cider making! I have been making vinegar this summer and wanted you to know that you can make a wonderful vinegar from the crushed apples you fed to the chickens! It will not be cider vinegar but it is as just as good and as nutritious, perhaps better. You can then save your cider for other uses.

How fun. Looked good

Nice

Great gift.

Great video, love that cider press.

Ya’ll are amazing! Great video!❤

Looks amazing! I’ve run a dozen apples with a couple lemons & a good sized piece of ginger through my juicer. It’s so yummy. I know you have an alternative way to make that😌

What a wonderful gift from your mom & dad! Great looking cider. I can smell it through the screen. :D

I love clay lol

Lovely video, thank you for sharing! It is nice to see you trying new things and enjoying the yummy results. We used to make apple juice (or apple cider as you call it) with my grandma. Lovely times. We juiced a bit more finely crushed apples than you and had a wield of about half a litre of juice per kilo of apples (juice was about half of the weigth of the apples), sometimes more. It is very common in my country (Czech republic) to juice apples and other fruits and many villages have facilities that will juice your produce for you. Some even bottle and pasteurise the results. The facilities (moštárny) are run by locals and charge only about 10 cents per litre of finished juice.

Thank you.

I just love watching you get new stuff for the homestead. Will you fermint it?

Looked like fun and delicious ♥️

The Dolga crabapples are lovely. We had one at our last property that was planted before 1956 and the tree is still producing abundantly every year. We have planted one at our new property and using the steam juicer we had enough apples this year to make about 6 quarts of juice. Also, the city of Lethbridge, Alberta uses them as landscape trees on their boulevards.

Your content is always uplifting. Thank you so much for all your hard work and for sharing your lives

Congratulations! Fun to try the juicing and every year it will get better. Love the chickens coming around, healthy snack for them! Thank you for sharing~~

Yum! Can you make apple vinegar from the pulp?

@clobberelladoesntreadcomme9920

8 ай бұрын

You'd need the juice to make vinegar. Maybe you could add the pulp to honey and water and make apple melomel?

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I wonder if it would be useful to cut that cider with a bit of water just to make it go further? Or if one had pears you could make apple-pear cider or even wine. but I'm not whining .😋

Did the video say how many apples you need for cider?? It looks delicious 🤩

It's surprising to see how many apples make only a little bit of juice

I had NO IDEA, apple cider took so many apples! I just watched red rose homestead steam the apples for juice! Then she ran the steamed apples in the Victoria machine which separated the cores and seeds to make applesauce, it seems more effective for getting juice, and then getting applesauce. However, I’m sure that their apple juice is thinner and less flavorful than apple cider. Could you tell us the difference between the two?

Just be aware that wasps love the pulp.They can be a real pain.

Yummy

Could you please post your videos on another platform? KZread is going to force me to remove my AD blocker ( built into the Brave browser ). I will not do this. I can live without KZread and their forced BS for the little people. Cider looks delicious. I have an apple press, I have never used it yet.

@FyNyth

7 ай бұрын

Our whole channel is at odysee.com/@FyNyth:d, has been for years, I have over and over tried to encourage folks to use alternative platforms to big tech so please watch there and try to get as many folks as you can to move as well!

whats happened to your voice A???