going for our first attempt at canning tomorrow

[Marine-daughter]

I've got a big bag of apples a friend gave me. I was going to turn them into applesauce and apple butter. The mill looks like it would be just the ticket. Anybody use one of these on a KitchenAid mixer:

http://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-At...UTF8&qid=1443364778&sr=8-8&keywords=food+mill

Nothing fancy here; followed a recommendation on one of the organic sites (peeled, cored, cut up the apples and threw them in my slow cooker n low overnight- they whisked to a perfect consistency). Did three bags of Macs....came out fine.

 

[Viper22]

Just did two batches of apple butter ~20 jars, and 3 batches of grape jelly ~25 jars. I've got another batch of apples left and will probably do applesauce.

I want to look into getting a pressure canner to preserve sauces & chili.

 

[ToddDubya]

I just looked to see if you can make applesauce using a Vitamix (or whatever your favorite blender is) and it sounds like the answer is 'yes'. I'll give it a shot this year and if it works, I'm good. If not, I'll look into a mill next time around.

It looks like the general procedure is:
Chop up your apples, removing the core* (and skin if you want)
Blend to desired consistency
Transfer to a big pot to warm, adding sugar/cinnamon/whatever if you want
Transfer to warmed jars
Process 15-20 minutes in water bath canner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSss7GRePs0

* Some people say the seeds are bad for you because they contain arsenic. Some people say it's not enough arsenic to matter. I'll probably core mine and not risk it over a little bit of chopping.

 

[NHAtHeart]

I just looked to see if you can make applesauce using a Vitamix (or whatever your favorite blender is) and it sounds like the answer is 'yes'. I'll give it a shot this year and if it works, I'm good. If not, I'll look into a mill next time around.

It looks like the general procedure is:
Chop up your apples, removing the core* (and skin if you want)
Blend to desired consistency
Transfer to a big pot to warm, adding sugar/cinnamon/whatever if you want
Transfer to warmed jars
Process 15-20 minutes in water bath canner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSss7GRePs0

* Some people say the seeds are bad for you because they contain arsenic. Some people say it's not enough arsenic to matter. I'll probably core mine and not risk it over a little bit of chopping.

Get one of the peeler/coring rigs that clamps to the edge of a table, quick and easy and you get nice peeled cored apples in about 10 seconds per apple.

 

[ToddDubya]

Get one of the peeler/coring rigs that clamps to the edge of a table, quick and easy and you get nice peeled cored apples in about 10 seconds per apple.

I have one of those but I want to keep the peels on the apples. I can cut the core out of an apple in seconds using a knife.

Here's a picture of a slightly more complicated method:

 

[headednorth]

A corer works even better

 

[Viper22]

I used a corer.

Doing the applesauce I peeled and cored the apples. With the apple butter I left the peel and cored. Then used a colander and mushed the apples through with a large spoon. Basically did what a food mill does. Food mill would have been easier.

 

[Imprezah]

I did 50 quarts of applesauce this week. I used a corer, boiled the pieces for 5 minutes, then ran then through the victorio mill. Chopping, blendering, peeling, this quantity of apples would just be silly. I get my apples for free from some friends who have a small orchard. We filled a pickup truck bed full to press cider. Gonna try making hard cider this year!