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This follows on a bit from the thread about re using screw top wine bottles, but as the season is approaching I thought I'd share this experience, 3 years ago a friend and I went halves on the Vigo pasteuriser then £180, so £90 investment each. using a range of recycled screw top bottles and surplus apples I have pasterised 130 bottles of apple juice each autumn for the past 3 seasons, so about two and half bottles a week for the family through out the year
In a farm shop you'd be looking at about £2.50 a bottle, so I make that £325 worth of juice a year, times 3 years, so far. Ok we would never had bought that amount of juice, but we no doubt buy loads less orange juice.
So my £90 investment looks pretty good, the moral is perhaps share equipment and so spread the investment, in the long term it will pay massively, in the short term it's not bad either.
Where I live we have a community owned press available for local people to borrow which makes the pressing much easier, again a shared resource.
Each autumn countless thousands of surplus apples go to waste, juicing is a wonderful way of utilising that surplus.
In a farm shop you'd be looking at about £2.50 a bottle, so I make that £325 worth of juice a year, times 3 years, so far. Ok we would never had bought that amount of juice, but we no doubt buy loads less orange juice.
So my £90 investment looks pretty good, the moral is perhaps share equipment and so spread the investment, in the long term it will pay massively, in the short term it's not bad either.
Where I live we have a community owned press available for local people to borrow which makes the pressing much easier, again a shared resource.
Each autumn countless thousands of surplus apples go to waste, juicing is a wonderful way of utilising that surplus.
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