Day #28
I bought a juice extractor (the type that goes on the stove and extracts the juice by heat) last year as I was not happy with my electrical one – too much waste and my kitchen looked like a very sweet and sticky hell afterwards.
Brand new and all shining new juice extractor
I had harvested close to 15 kg of grapes which I wanted to make into juice and use later on for cooking if there were any left.
15 kg of grapes! Have you ever processed this quantity: washing, taking out insects, snails, spiders, taking away the stems and other bits not belonging to the berries. While toiling away I had enough time to do some math: an average berry weighs 2 g = 7’500 in total. I checked them twice = 15’000 berries went through my hands.
Step 1: wash the grapes and take away the stems
Perfectly clean grapes
Step 2: weigh your fruit or vegetable and put them in the top container of your juice extractor.
As it was the first time I used the juice extractor and the instructions were not really helpful I did some testing with quantities of water and fruit. 3 L of water and 4 kg of fruit seem to be the best.
Step 3: while your juice extractor is doing its work, wash the bottles in your dishwasher and fill in the grape juice while they are very hot. Friends assured me the grape juice will thus keep for 2 years. Fat chance it will last that long!
Very proud of my first bottle of grape juice
After hours of washing, cleaning and cooking I am now the proud owner of 11 L of pure grape juice. Anybody game for some kitchen cleaning? It is not really dirty just a little bit sticky …
Day #28 Proud and tired after a long day and now I will put up my feet.
Have a great weekend!