Summer and autumn is the time to ripen various berries, fruits and vegetables. Everyone who has their own personal plot must grow apple trees of different varieties: "Bashkir beauty", "Antonovka", "shalopeevka", "ranetki" and so on. And this is not surprising, because apples are very tasty and healthy fruits.
In a high-yielding year, many people think about what to cook from such a large number of fruits. Of course, there are many options. Someone is preparing apple juice, wine, mashed potatoes, someone is cooking jam, jam, jam. Very tasty are pastille and marmalade from apples. Some cut apples into slices and put them in the freezer.
To perform any described procedure, you must have special tools. You can use just a knife. And you can make a unique home-made device that will facilitate the process of preparing blanks for the winter.
DIY apple chopper
For the convenience of slicing apples, a chopper is used. You can use a purchased appliance or food processor. Particularly skilled ones have ideas on how to make an apple chopper with their own hands.
First you need to decide what kind of harvesting from apples will be made. That is, how finely chop the fruit?
Usually in a garage, workshop or workshop, unnecessary boards, whetstones, screws, screws and much more are stored. All this can come in handy in order to make an apple chopper with your own hands.
Crusher for chopping apples from improvised means
From a small-sized chipboard, a container is made where apples are poured. Next, the fruits are ground using a drum installed inside the container. A drum can be made from scraps of boards about twenty-five millimeters thick. Four such boards are glued together. It turns out a bar the size of one hundred millimeters per hundred millimeters. This beam with the help of a planer turns into a cylinder. The drum will spin with a drill or other rotating device. A certain number of self-tapping screws or nails are mounted on the drum. When the drum spins, these self-tapping screws begin to crush the apples. Also, the drum can be made from a round pipe of small diameter.
After some time, the fruits are completely chopped and ready for further processing.
For large slicing apples (for making charlotte or drying), you can make an apple chopper yourself from thin iron plates.
To do this, take plates measuring 1 cm by 10 cm. They are fixed to each other in the form of a lattice or a flower. The thin blade of the plates perfectly cut apples into large pieces.
Another simple idea
How to make an apple chopper with your own hands in the old days? They took a small wooden bucket. Washed apples were put there. For grinding, they used a special sharp spatula like a modern chopping knife.
Having learned how to make an apple chopper with your own hands, you can try to make other devices for the convenience of preparing different workpieces. Fortunately, everyone has the materials for this.
The garden shredder for apples (made with your own hands, of course, will be much cheaper than the purchased one) will greatly simplify the work in the kitchen. After all, with the help of this simple device you can chop not only apples, but also other types of fruits, vegetables and berries.