Pulpmaster with Bucket - Cider Press Apple Fruit and Veg Chopper Shredder Pulper

Good product. The "Pulpmaster with Bucket" worked surprisingly well. I found that rather than opening the bucket and stirring the contents, I could tip the bucket on an angle and the contents would blend better, not requiring it to be stirred. When doing this however, you have to make sure the lid is securely in place and does not open up, which it has a tendency to do when tipping the bucket.I used it for apples and grapes. The fruit press I bought said that grapes did not need to be pulped. That is incorrect. They juiced much better, yielding much more juice if they were pulped before pressing. The apples are best pulped as fine as possible to yield more juice.My only complaint would be that the metal blade can too easily hit the inside of the bucket, scratching it. The lid has to be held securely in place in order for this not to happen.

Obviously not expensive (though shipping to the US costs more than the product itself...but the functionality is lacking. There is a space left below the rotating "pulper" that leaves apples untouched. There is no way to get to them...I tried shaking the whole unit up and down and getting in there with a spoon to try to mix up the pieces to get to the larger ones and it sort of works...but the effort is hardly worth it for more than the very occasional and low volume juicing exercise. I will likely invest in the much more expensive models soon. I may try to shave down the plastic top part of the bucket to try to get the pulper end lower in the bucket.

I have been making cider, beer and fruit wines for 40 years, recently my daughter and son in law moved to new place with an orchard of 20 apple trees so I needed a bigger pulper than the mincer I had from my mother's era. I purchased this on the recommendation of a video, it is simply a bucket with a crudely fashioned metal blade but it is angled wrongly and only cuts 40-505 of the apple slices in each bucket, it is faster than the mincer but not nearly as effective and at £25 it is massively overpriced. In one morning I made a copy for £5. You would be much better off using a wooden pole mashing pulp in a 5 gallon bucket, net cost nil.

Its just a small white bucket with a central hole in the lid with a small shaft with two "blades" (blades is generous) ...95% mark up