Home apple juice is much more delicious shopping. Do you know why? Because when it is made on an industrial scale in an apple mass for the juice crush, bones and fettered pieces of fruits come across. At home, it is easy to exclude. Apple juice is pleased with the workouts in the manufacture, but if you spend time, then the whole family will drink a drink.
Apples for juice - what are suitable and how to prepare them
For juice suitable any apples that ripen closer to autumn. Good varieties such as Snow Calville, Boyken, Mekintosh. Apples need to take only the most ripe and integers. If drumming will come across, it is necessary to cut this place. From apples with rotten sides, it is better to refuse at all, because the juice may have a taste of mold. Prepare fruits for further processing on juice it is necessary:
- Apples should be washed and dried.
- Cut the fruit with slices, deleting seed boxes, tails and damaged parts.
Apple juice extraction devices
Apple juice for its further conservation can be separated in three ways:
- through manual press;
- by means of juicer;
- cook apples in a special big fool.
Juice through manual press
At home, manual press is usually used in farms, where there is a large garden and apples matures a lot. For squeezing, apples must be crushed as gloss as much as possible, and then most of them put them in a bowl with holes. Under it is installed capacity for the collection of juice, and the extrusion occurs by turning the lever, lowering the flat pressing plate.
The advantages of this method:
- you can squeeze a lot of juice at the same time;
- juice is performed absolutely without foam.
Disadvantages:
- for extrusion, juice requires significant physical efforts;
- juice requires additional thermal processing (boiling).
Juice through the juicer
It is best to use a juicer in which there is a "foam separation" function. When the juice is squeezed by rapidly rotating the internal centrifuge, apple juice together with a large amount of foam flows through the drain hole. It is for her separation in good juicers there are catching filters.
The advantages of the method:
- physical efforts are not required;
- juice is quite a lot.
Disadvantages:
- a lot of foam may be formed, which must be removed by settling and filtering;
- juice requires additional heat treatment.
Juice through Sokalovarka
Many years ago, when the juicers were shortened, the hostess used to extract the juice so-called shortcuts. Today they are sold everywhere and very convenient to use. The essence of the production of juice is that 5-6 kg of crushed apples are superimposed with holes with holes, this pan with boiling water, and the juice of apples is separated by passing through a very hot steam. The juice is poured into the container between pots with holes and pans with boiling water. Next, through the tall tube, the juice merges directly into the jar.
The advantages of the method:
- apple juice turns a lot;
- juice is poured without foam;
- the juice does not require further heat treatment - it can be immediately siled with covers.
Disadvantages:
- the method is quite effortful, as you have to deal with large hot saucepans;
- juice is thick, resembling Kisel - some consumers do not like it.
How to close apple juice
Apple juice so that he stood the whole winter, it is necessary to bring to a boil and cook 5-7 minutes (this does not apply to the juice that turns out through the Sokalovka). If the apples are not sufficient enough, then with cooking in juice, you can put sugar to taste (from 1 to 3 cent. L. Per liter of the product). Boiling juice must be pouring into hot jars, to cover them with the same lids and immediately wait with a reciprocal machine. Next, the clouded banks should be turned upside down and give cool.
So that the juice stood until the next harvest without problems, when it is extruded and preservation, you only need to use clean dishes. All her, a bowl of juicer, parts of the press, draft spoon, cans, covers, etc., it is necessary to wash with hot water with soda, and then scream with boiling water.