I have wondered since my childhood what the machine we have down in our basement was used for. Last week my father told me that it s a mechanical press to squeeze the juice out of fruits.

Since we have plenty of apples and I was curious I ve went to our building supplies store where I bought the missing wooden part for ~ 20 €.

Then I collected the apples on the floor and picked some from the tree (there are still quite some left) and milled them. The milling was done with an electric device I ve lent from our Volxküche.

In the end of the day I had 20 Liters of fresh apple juice, produced with the apples right in front of our house with almost no energy used (Just the milling was done with an electric device).

To conserve the juice I cooked it once and filled it in bottles. Now we have apple juice at least for the next months. It s a pity that I leave soon for half a year. Hopefully the juice is still good by then.

I hope we are going to integrate the juice press in the Project “Schwarzer Rettich”.