Homemade Cheese & Cider Press Instructions

“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…”

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