pressure relief

Sit down, shut down, watch this for a while, and breathe deep. Everybody needs a pressure relief valve of some sort these days. I find it restful to sit silently, listening to and watching the pressure relief valve on the fermenting pear cider that exhales regularly every twenty seconds or so, like a hibernating bear. Be that way.

Hasty Crush and Press

Let's get this over quickly before the end of the world as we knew it, but if you use a toilet plunge instead of your hand to push the pears down, it should be a virgin. Then you will produce one nice pear pie, like you see here. I would have gotten a lot more juice out of this batch if I had not overloaded the press

Hurried Sundown

Gone so fast: