Dale recently posted about the similarities between making different fermented foods; now, you can make your cider and cheese with the same tool:
Here is how I built my own combination cider and cheese press. After a great apple harvest this year, I was inspired to obtain my own cider press. However, after pricing one and seeing that they cost exactly one arm and one leg to purchase I started thinking about building one myself. While no advanced rocket engineering degree is needed to understand the basics concept of apple cider making (apples+ pressure=cider), it took some thought as to how it all fits together. At the same time, I was interested in learning cheese making so I put a homemade cheese press on it as well. So, I looked at some other press variations online and in magazines and this is what I came up with.
This project’s from the same Instructables user who made the bicycle wheel solar tracker I blogged about yesterday. Great work, bwitmer!
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