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<blockquote data-quote="guywhofishes" data-source="post: 114468" data-attributes="member: 337"><p>our process involves a stainless steam extraction vs. grandma and her friends using old panty hose and other torture contraptions.</p><p><img src="http://www.eckraus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/0c77256f726df40322edc892297ff7aa.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>galwhofishes makes the syrup once we have the precious "liquor" extracted </p><p></p><p>I don't know her specifics but it involves some reduction/concentration via boiling - then addition of sugar, lemon juice, and karo syrup - and just a touch of almond extract - about 1/3 of what most recipes suggest for just a hint of nuttiness</p><p></p><p>I'll have her post recipe later but I'm pretty sure it's nothing exotic and it's same as 90% of what a guy would find with google</p><p></p><p>grandma never wrote anything down since she cooked the same things every year for probably 89 of her 99 years</p><p></p><p>black gold baby</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]6465[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>p.s. if you really go gonzo and harvest many quarts of extract you have the option of just canning the extract - decide on making it into syrup or jelly later on depending on which you're running out of sooner</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>yep, the steamer makes them boil from the inside - when you open the lid and peek in it's like a freaking horror movie - they are all boiling away and their juices are spewing out - eeeeekk</p><p></p><p>so they all boil from within - forcing all the cells to rupture - the juices drip out of the fruit pan down into the collector. After a few rotations of fruit your collector is full and you simply flow the extract into the bowls/jars for later conversion to syrup/jelly</p><p></p><p>the puffy remains of the berries look super juicy and a guy thinks "OMG - what a waste - we didn't get all the juice out!" so you put a bunch in an old panty hose and squeeze like nuts and you get maybe a teaspoon of bitter extract out of it. that's the last time you wonder if it's "efficient"</p><p></p><p>pile some rhubarb into that baby - juice it - then open up the fruit lid and you have a paper thin layer of rhubarb laying there - it's insanely easy and works like magic IMO</p><p></p><p>I insisted on a stainless model - aluminum with acidic food is bad idea IMO.</p><p></p><p>here's a crummy video of using one</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]kbzpBNIGIbs[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">- - - Updated - - -</span></span></p><p></p><p><img src="https://www.brouwland.com/content/assets/photos/015/0154054eng.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="guywhofishes, post: 114468, member: 337"] our process involves a stainless steam extraction vs. grandma and her friends using old panty hose and other torture contraptions. [IMG]http://www.eckraus.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/0c77256f726df40322edc892297ff7aa.jpg[/IMG] galwhofishes makes the syrup once we have the precious "liquor" extracted I don't know her specifics but it involves some reduction/concentration via boiling - then addition of sugar, lemon juice, and karo syrup - and just a touch of almond extract - about 1/3 of what most recipes suggest for just a hint of nuttiness I'll have her post recipe later but I'm pretty sure it's nothing exotic and it's same as 90% of what a guy would find with google grandma never wrote anything down since she cooked the same things every year for probably 89 of her 99 years black gold baby [ATTACH=CONFIG]6465._xfImport[/ATTACH] p.s. if you really go gonzo and harvest many quarts of extract you have the option of just canning the extract - decide on making it into syrup or jelly later on depending on which you're running out of sooner [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] yep, the steamer makes them boil from the inside - when you open the lid and peek in it's like a freaking horror movie - they are all boiling away and their juices are spewing out - eeeeekk so they all boil from within - forcing all the cells to rupture - the juices drip out of the fruit pan down into the collector. After a few rotations of fruit your collector is full and you simply flow the extract into the bowls/jars for later conversion to syrup/jelly the puffy remains of the berries look super juicy and a guy thinks "OMG - what a waste - we didn't get all the juice out!" so you put a bunch in an old panty hose and squeeze like nuts and you get maybe a teaspoon of bitter extract out of it. that's the last time you wonder if it's "efficient" pile some rhubarb into that baby - juice it - then open up the fruit lid and you have a paper thin layer of rhubarb laying there - it's insanely easy and works like magic IMO I insisted on a stainless model - aluminum with acidic food is bad idea IMO. here's a crummy video of using one [MEDIA=youtube]kbzpBNIGIbs[/MEDIA] [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] [IMG]https://www.brouwland.com/content/assets/photos/015/0154054eng.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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