🐹 🍎 Happy Cider Making Days! 🍎 🐹

One of the best parts of autumn is apple harvest season, and for some, apple cider!

For centuries, apples have been gathered, crushed and pressed to release their juice, producing fresh cider that can be enjoyed straight from the press or heated with cinnamon, cloves and other warming spices to make wonderfully fragrant mulled cider!

So, you feel the need for some cider, and you have some apples and a few guinea pig helpers, you may wonder if you can go into business. Let's think about this ...

Just how much guinea pig power would it take to press a single apple?

A rough estimate might put the force needed to thoroughly crush a firm apple at somewhere around 100–200 pounds of force!

With the average guinea pig weighing about 2 pounds, our highly scientific Guinea Pig Cider Company has therefore determined that it could take somewhere in the neighborhood of 50–100 guinea pigs to provide enough weight to squash ONE apple. 😮

Fortunately, an old-fashioned screw cider press provides mechanical advantage, dramatically multiplying the force applied—because even at peak apple season, finding 100 cooperative guinea pigs friends willing to form a pyramid for every apple would seriously slow production. 😂 🍎 🐹 🍂

Wheek! Wheek!