Steam juicer

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I have been thinking about buying a steam juicer. I have a lot of fruit in the freezer. I took plums out and made plum sauce and more plum jelly. I have elderberries, blackberries and I dehydrated a bunch of raspberries and I soon fruit will be ripening this year with cherry bushes and rhubarb. My problem is that I can only make so much jelly and it is going to start taking over the house. Nobody but me really enjoys berry pies. The cherry pitting takes so much time, so I was thinking about juice. I watched videos where they used it to can juice to drink and a way to get the juice easier for making jelly. Does anybody here have one? How much juice would you get out of a full load of blackberries or raspberries?

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I did not get a response to this, so I will ask a different question. What do you do with all your fruit? I have a lot of jelly. Today, I am going to make rhubarb lemonade. Do you can your fruit? Blackberries, raspberries, pie cherries, elderberries, strawberries, rhubarb. I am eating dehydrated raspberries on my oatmeal. I dehydrated a gallon of them and have plenty more in the freezer and raspberry jam in the cupboard.

 

[thistlebloom]

I don't have a lot of fruit. The raspberries never seem to make it into the house, and the apples get canned as applesauce or pie filling. Rhubarb gets frozen, but I don't actually use a lot of rhubarb.

I think your steam juicer idea is a good one. No extra sugar as in jams. You could still make jelly from the juice if you wanted to couldn't you?

 

[ninnymary]

With your juicer you could either freeze or can the juice to be used later. I used to think that my trees and raspberries didn't produce a lot of fruit but maybe they do. With 6 preschoolers eating fruit when we're outside, maybe I should blame them and not the trees.

Mary

 

[so lucky]

If you get juice, you can make syrups and jellies. Besides just drinking the juice. If I had extra fruit, I would go for that. I freeze strawberries and use them through the year. Could you make fruit leather?

 

[baymule]

I love fruits and will be planting fruit trees soon. This of course means that I will someday have lots of fruit to deal with. We really don't eat a lot of jelly. I have made fruit leather before and it didn't last long. Making and canning juice is on my radar, but I had no idea this appliance even existed. I looked them up and wow! I am putting this on the list. Be sure to let us know how this does for you.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

If you get juice, you can make syrups and jellies. Besides just drinking the juice. If I had extra fruit, I would go for that. I freeze strawberries and use them through the year. Could you make fruit leather?

These people won't eat that either. Lol.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Well, I bought it. Gurney with their 50% off, I got it for $50 and shipping it is $62. I have to get fruit out of the freezer, well freezers. I will save on electricity just shutting one of these down, plus actually get some use out of the fruit. I watched videos of it and it really is nice. You can have your hot jars and lids ready to fill. You fill the jars with the hose thing, and put lids on and process and have canned juice. You can get the juice and use for jelly and have less waste and not take as long with the mess of the straining through cloth or strainer. I am not sure how much juice you can get out of raspberries. I am thinking that I could freeze all the raspberries each day other than what we eat fresh and then when they stop producing process the juice or jam, which would not be using the juicer and save some for crisps and things, so just freeze a normal amount.

 

[thistlebloom]

It sounds like a great thing to have available. Does it juice apples too GWR?

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

It sounds like a great thing to have available. Does it juice apples too GWR?

Yes! Here is a picture of how much juice and applesauce, and fruit leather. http://selfreliantschool.com/make-apple-juice-steam-juicer/