I would have used “incorporated into” or co-opted by, but yeah I agree with you essentially, it’s why we can’t have nice things.

Its not that it couldn’t be useful to some, its just that once you scale to the masses there is clearly nothing to stop it from just being used as another capitalism tool. There are very cool projects that never gained popularity that have anti capitalism baked into it, such as chains with negative interest rates that scale with the amount of coin you have.

We dont need to boil the earth to have crypto either. It’s crypto speculators that are the problem latching onto these old systems for nothing but speculative value.

Its a ridiculous derp bird.

Stray cats are actually a recognized threat against the wild turkey population. It was one of the things they actually mentioned last time they did a big catch and spay drive near me.

Depends on how much time you want to spend. I would recommend most people no matter how much they have to get a small cheap one before investing more. You need a lot of apples/fruit before it’s worth getting something bigger/better.

A bushel of apples is like ~20 Kilos so maybe 2 or 3 bags? Not sure how big your bags are and how much you fill them.

You can buy a small 1.6 Gallon press for ~$50 and it would take ~3 pressing refills to process the bushel and will yield around 12 Liters of raw cider.

Sorry about the chaotic mix of units… I am American

Home depot has a small starter one for <50 near me that would probably be adequate if your not processing multiple bushells every year.

No they are saying that it was intentionally made into vinegar as it’s primary purpose. That just simply isn’t true, it’s primary purpose was hard cider, vinegar was a byproduct of failed batches that few people would be in short supply of.

Then your lucky. I know someone who has an apple tree that’s semi edible (most of the apples finish with a slight sweetness). I also know dozens of people whose apples are only really useful for cider. Its all technically edible if your tongue can handle the acidity and astringency.

Get a press, cider making is fun. Don’t try to use a Jack Lallane juicer to feed through a couple bushells… Also don’t ask me how I know that.

Apple seeds have like a one in 10k chance of producing a sweet apple that is nearly as good as what else is on the market, and like one in 100k for it to be better. Every other one comes out to a nearly inedible crab apple.

Always seemed like a cool hobby to me if I somehow became rich. It’s like a gamble that is just as much your time, as it is your money.

If you know what brewing with apples and not having access to modern equipment, sanitation and yeast is like then I highly doubt they were in short supply of vinegar.