Easy Homemade Apple Cider Vinegar

Homemade apple cider vinegar:
All your apple scraps - peels, cores, seeds, any apples you wont eat (NOT rotten apples). I had a lot of apple scraps at once because I was working with a lot of apples, but you can also save your scraps in the freezer until you get enough to make a batch. This is what I usually do. Add all your scraps to a glass jar, and top with sugar. You MUST add the sugar because the bacteria that makes it vinegar needs to feed on the sugar, and the sugar from the apple scraps alone isnt enough. I use 1/4 cup of sugar for every quart. Add some water, your fermentation weight, and finish covering with water. Cover the top with a coffee filter or kitchen towel and leave it to set somewhere cool and dark - I use my pantry. You need to use a coffee filter or kitchen towel to allow gasses to escape as it ferments, but prevent anything from getting in. Every 2-3 days, take it out and give it a stir. This allows the apples to cyle which ones are on the bottom and top and make sure no sugar settles. It also prevents molding! If any apple pieces arent fully submerged they will mold. Do this for 2 weeks, then strain all the fruit out. Return the liquid without the fruit to the jar and allow to ferment for 2 more weeks. Then your vinegar is ready! #apples #apple #applecidervinegar #homemade #homemadefood #homemadevinegar #preservingfood #vinegar #foodwaste #reducewaste #reducefoodwaste #applerecipes #recipes #recipe #recipesoftiktok #recipesforyou

[mamabear]

I doubled back to watch your video, glad I did as I always toss the peels. Thank you

[TransformInProgress]

I thought you weren’t supposed to weigh down the apples so that they could aerate? Thanks for sharing your technique.❤❤❤

[salavat]

Better use of apple cider:
1) Put the apples through a juicer
2) Put the apple pulp through a wine press to get the last bit of juice out.
3) condense the juice until the sugar concentration rises to about 30 to 35%
4) Add Ale barm and allow to ferment fully
5) Run through a still and make APPLE BRANDY. Rural old-timers could get the their from 85% to 95% ABV.

[salavat]

To speed things up add two shot glasses worth of the years apple cider vinegar dregs, these will already have the necessary fermentation cultures.

[salavat]

To speed things up add two shot glasses worth of the years apple cider vinegar dregs, these will already have the necessary fermentation cultures.