🍇🫐How to Use a Steam Juicer – Make Your Own Elderberry Juice 🍑🍐
Are you wondering if you really need a steam juicer? The answer may surprise you! Not just for kitchen maximalists, the large preserving tool known as a steam juicer may earn its place in your preserving kitchen even though it is a one-job tool. Because it does its one job so well. Turn a large bounty of fresh fruit into delicious juice with a steam juicer! I show you how, using elderberries as an example, but you can juice many other fruits. Watch the video to learn how!
➡️ Recipe and directions https://chocolateboxcottage.tv/videos/steam-juicer-elderberry-juice/
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➡️🕰 VIDEO OUTLINE:
0:00 Intro
1:28 Parts of the Back to Basics Steam Juicer and how it works
4:34 Short-cut to de-stemming fresh elderberries
4:48 Start heating the steam-juicer
5:24 Why I recommend wearing gloves to process fresh elderberries
5:53 Mise en place (prepare your workspace)
6:05 De-stemming fresh elderberries the easy way
6:47 Blue elderberries, Sambucus nigra ssp. Caerulea
7:08 Should you worry about elderberry toxicity?
7:29 First tray of elderberries, de-stemmed in less than a minute
7:41 Regulating the heat
7:57 Adding the elderberries to the steam juicer
10:40 Choose a container to catch the juice
11:22 Things to keep in mind when using a steam juicer
13:20 Other fruits to juice in your steam juicer
14:11 What to do with the juice
14:30 Juice is filling the tubing and safe handling of hot tubing
14:54 How to release the clamp and dispense juice
15:45 How to stop the juice flow
16:28 Special consideration for preserving elderberry juice
17:01 How to safely fill jars with hot juice
18:04 Second dispensing of juice
18:52 Peek inside the steam juicer
19:00 To stir or not to stir
20:23 Third and last dispensing of juice
20:59 Introducing the Fruit Saver steam canner
21:32 Canning processing time for elderberries
22:06 It’s not hard!
23:17 Uses for leftover fruit pulp
24:24 Care and maintenance of steam juicer
26:08 Pretty pictures from Chocolate Box Cottage
🛒 Shopping Guide
Some links are affiliate links and I earn a small commission when you make a qualifying purchase. This does not change your price. Thank you for supporting my business! You may be able to find a steam juicer at a thrift shop or yard sale for cheap. If not, take a look at the products I recommend below.
🌼 Steam juicer like mine
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