The next two weeks at our house, the theme is Apples. We're telling stories about apples, painting apples, reciting nursery rhymes about apples, picking apples, and making things with apples. Yesterday was applesauce day. Of course, things didn't go according to plan. I had 98 pounds of apples and hoped to make 4 dozen quarts of applesauce, with my mom to help me since I haven't canned applesauce in pretty much forever. Well, come to find out that virtually all the apples were not ripe enough to use yet. They looked so much riper in the sun at the orchard! They'll ripen, but that means that the bulk of the applesauce-making will have to happen in a week or so, and of course Grandma won't be here. So we got out all the equipment and did all that work, only to get six quarts of applesauce.
It's not the end of the world, of course, because we will be able to do it again when the apples get ripe. But now I have to get jazzed up to do it again. Because I can't waste the other 85 pounds-or-so of apples that are now sitting in my house.
Of course the kids had to make the obligatory comments about how the apple "waste" looked like poop coming out of the machine.It's not the end of the world, of course, because we will be able to do it again when the apples get ripe. But now I have to get jazzed up to do it again. Because I can't waste the other 85 pounds-or-so of apples that are now sitting in my house.
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For my applesauce, though, I just cut them with my apple corer/slicer/peeler that I got a couple years ago, and slightly cook the slices before putting them in the blender with a little water. I wonder if you have less waste doing it with the juicer?
I'm going to be going apple crazy the next couple weeks too, with several bushels of apples on my trees. :)
Have you tried dehydrating apple slices in your oven and making apple chips? So fun! Even easier if you have a dehydrator!