The adjustment nuts set the depth of the cork in the bottle. The best way to reduce the amount of divot created by the corking tool, is to use cold corks. You still need to sterilize them, but letting them soak in boiling water makes them squishy. Let them cool down. Then just before you cork, dip them in cool water for lubrication.
Hi, a relativley inexpensive hack to your cork problem would be, if you could make a littel mold to form the cork into your icon - so the indention would be porpousful.
I'm not an expert at wine, but when I helped me dad bottle our backyard wine he would just put a dime on top of the cork before using the corker. Its definitely a cheap option to try since you already have the corker. Good luck!! - Jenn Cotton
When I discovered American Homestead I watched all of Season1 and have been anxiously waiting for Season 2. Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us and for helping us newbys along. Though I am a little older than you all, I am little by little living my homestead dream. I am not a big wine drinker,-do you also process your pulp from your persimmons and make pudding? This is a favorite in our family. Looking forward to a wonderful learning experience with Season 2.
I love your dehydrator and gave me a lot of ideas, I can tell that you have a lot of pride in your work. You are definitely are an exceptional craftsman. Keep pouring out the videos and I'll absorb it all like a sponge.
I was wondering why your family chose the Ozarks? I stumbled onto some info on youtube about a lot of ex- military choosing to move and retire to the Ozarks, just wondered if you picked it for the same reason. My husband and I will be raising up our own homestead in a few years but are not sure about the location. If the info I stumbled on is correct then the Ozarks is the place to be.
Who are the 2 debby downers that disliked this video? Seriously? I am not a huge fan of onions but I tell you, those dehydrated onions looked DELICIOUS!!! That wine looks pretty appetizing too!
Jamie - I dehydrated my green beans last year and do eat them as snacks but I had to blanch them first. I also dehydrated zucchini chips, sweet potato chips and various greens. Certain methods of preservation are better for various vegetables based on the main nutrients. A good book that tells the best preservation method for keeping the nutrients in your food is "Preserving Summer's Bounty". It's a great reference guide for knowing which to can, which to dry, and specifics on how to harvest each type of fruit and vegetable. Hope this helps! Mary
We rented a floor model bottle corker from the feed store. I believe it was $5-$10 for the weekend. It corked like butter. Great results Glad you made your first batch...........enjoy Blessings
You guys are a inspiration to me! Thank you for sharing your time and wisdom to everyone.. I have found many ideas from you guys to apply on our future homestead.. I love wine and I was inspired to make my own one day like you guys did on this video.. Keep living.. Take care...
Will love to see Jaimie cooking her storage food, good job I have an Excalibur dehydrator and I love it. If you want to save more space you could make one in powder. Looking forward to buy your wine, awesome.
Is the wine sweet or dry? Granny's face said dry to me. Blackberry wine is great. I wish had some warning cause it drinks like cool aid but kicks like a mule!
Don't forget to ask local restaurants and bars for old bottles. Many will like to recycle and will save them for you. Only problem is picking them up on a regular basis.
The folks at Half-acre-homestead take their tomatoes & dehydrate them. Once dehydrated they grind them up for tomato powder. It can them be used to make sauces & such. You could do this with your hot peppers as well. Just a thought...LOL As for fruit storage, my grandparents use to Jack fruit-juice . Especially apple juice. Cider could only hold so long. I imagine that you could do it with your crop as well. Just another method for storage.
Hey Maine! There are literally hundreds of free plans for solar dehydrators online. We just picked one and went with it. Most are free. Just search google.
Hi guys! We just found your channel, what a great job you're doing! And what better way is there to get closer to God than going back to nature. If you haven't already, try dehydrated broccoli chips, they're delicious :) Blessings
I am curious as to why y'all didn't use the tops of the green onions? Since you were dehydrating them to be used in soups and stews, even if they were tough, they would have worked.
ummmmm don't you know those Egyptian Walking onions grow year round? You harvest the tops as green onions continuously. When they set at top you let them fall off and then collect them to plant and expand your crop. We, at Dogwood Hollow Homestead Community grow these now for 6 years and we love them! They even grow through winter. We always have onions. BTW we are also homesteading in MO. Ozarks, where is your homestead?!
Shalom! Just a couple of ideas here...maybe you could shave or file the cork flat on top, or possibly decorate the top of the bottle neck with colorful paper, sticker, ribbon, bling(jewels, pretty rocks, etc. haha). I am sure you could find a video or tutorial on how to cover that up. Our family just started watching your videos and we are really encouraged and excited to one day have our own homestead. May YHWH bless you all!
Are you going to make up instructions and a 'how to' tutorial to go with it for the solar dehydrator (plans on DIY) for us? Would be tremendous opportunity to make some extra money for those of us who want to build such as well. You've got the best idea I've seen made. Why not learn from one of the best protypes? Makes sense to me....I'd pay for plans to build one. Just a suggestion....
I have many many pear trees on my property. I'm going to research this, thanks to you I'm very interested in making wine from pears.....? what do you think?
Not sure if you're a fan of BEER or not, but since you already know and have access to a local home brew shop/store, you would probably enjoy brewing your own BEER (like I say, IF you enjoy good Craft Beer) as well, since you obviously know what your doing with wine making and enjoy that process as well. BTW, what was the alcohol % on your Persimmon wine anyway??.... got some family that made some years ago that came out to about 16%, and it was still a pretty sweet wine.... was freakin' DELICIOUS! ;-)
You guys going to be able to give away or sell your wine, or would that start all sorts of issues with the BATF? I love Persimmon Wine and haven't had it for several years.
hie I got a doubt while fitting the cork to the wine bottle you use the wet one the one show soaking in hot water or you let it dry completely and used it
Your statement on the lids is incorrect. A wax(paraffin or beeswax ring placed in a screwtop will seal the wine as well as cork. Wax seals have been used since roman times. My great uncle used to do this instead of cork and I opened the last bottle of mead he made (30 year old mead) and it is still fine.) I do this occasionally and have some 6 year old wine which should be fine. Cork is permeable which is why the used to wax seal the wine bottles.
Dustin Wells He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. So in your shame, can you not tell me where you are supposed to celebrate 3 feast days per year? In your folly can you not show me from Torah where Yahweh said to celebrate these feast days? In your ignorance can you tell me if there was yet a temple or not yet? The irony is you little coward, I wasn't commenting in response to you. Or are you too arrogant and self-centered to realize that?
I watched your first season. Then your individual videos. Flew past your persimmon picking, but didn't see it. Too bad that your videos are not in order when lined up on the right side.
I just found your channel yesterday. We love it. Up here in Wisconsin i have been able to get old wine bottles for free by asking at local bars and restaurants. They just toss them or recycle them most of the time. I have used a floor corker from Northern Brewer and it works very well. www.northernbrewer.com/shop/winemaking/wine-equipment/italian-floor-corker-brass-jaws
Great to do your own wine. My gand dad did the corking (??? sorry I'm a french guy) had just somthing like a hand press. You put the bottle so it stays and with a hand bar it presses the cork into the bottle. Have just a link :www.embouteille.com/bouchonneuse-produit-230.htm where it shows a tool but as it is simple, I guess you can do such one by your own.... GL for your homestead and BR, Daniel
I am probably one year late but here what you need to put the cork down correctly www.amazon.com/BSG-Floor-Corking-Machine/dp/B005FQY8JI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1453220056&sr=8-3&keywords=corking+machine
Wish you can feature in more details like a DIY style of your dehydrator. Pleaseeeeeee
The adjustment nuts set the depth of the cork in the bottle. The best way to reduce the amount of divot created by the corking tool, is to use cold corks. You still need to sterilize them, but letting them soak in boiling water makes them squishy. Let them cool down. Then just before you cork, dip them in cool water for lubrication.
Q-Hack! Cool! THANKS!
I really like the color of your wine. Would love to taste it.
Respect... That is one serious dehydrator!
Could you possibly put a parts list on your web site for dehydrator?
Hi, a relativley inexpensive hack to your cork problem would be, if you could make a littel mold to form the cork into your icon - so the indention would be porpousful.
my grandma called these winter oniions. she had a bed where they just came up every spring. we ate the green tops too.
I'm not an expert at wine, but when I helped me dad bottle our backyard wine he would just put a dime on top of the cork before using the corker. Its definitely a cheap option to try since you already have the corker. Good luck!!
- Jenn Cotton
When I discovered American Homestead I watched all of Season1 and have been anxiously waiting for Season 2. Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us and for helping us newbys along. Though I am a little older than you all, I am little by little living my homestead dream. I am not a big wine drinker,-do you also process your pulp from your persimmons and make pudding? This is a favorite in our family. Looking forward to a wonderful learning experience with Season 2.
I love your dehydrator and gave me a lot of ideas, I can tell that you have a lot of pride in your work. You are definitely are an exceptional craftsman. Keep pouring out the videos and I'll absorb it all like a sponge.
Your family is such an inspiration and give all of us hope to live the american dream please keep up the great job you are all doing. God bless you!!
It's so relaxing watching and listening to your show here in Australia thank you.
I was wondering why your family chose the Ozarks? I stumbled onto some info on youtube about a lot of ex- military choosing to move and retire to the Ozarks, just wondered if you picked it for the same reason. My husband and I will be raising up our own homestead in a few years but are not sure about the location. If the info I stumbled on is correct then the Ozarks is the place to be.
Who are the 2 debby downers that disliked this video? Seriously?
I am not a huge fan of onions but I tell you, those dehydrated onions looked DELICIOUS!!! That wine looks pretty appetizing too!
Jamie - I dehydrated my green beans last year and do eat them as snacks but I had to blanch them first. I also dehydrated zucchini chips, sweet potato chips and various greens. Certain methods of preservation are better for various vegetables based on the main nutrients. A good book that tells the best preservation method for keeping the nutrients in your food is "Preserving Summer's Bounty". It's a great reference guide for knowing which to can, which to dry, and specifics on how to harvest each type of fruit and vegetable. Hope this helps! Mary
I really enjoy your videos and learn so much. Thanks so much for sharing :)
We rented a floor model bottle corker from the feed store. I believe it was $5-$10 for the weekend. It corked like butter. Great results
Glad you made your first batch...........enjoy
Blessings
Nice looking dehydrator, dang
I dehydrate a lot of herbs. Tastes so much better than the store for sure.
you can also purchase bottle neck sleeves that cover the cork and part of the neck
I dehydrate my bag of frozen mixed veggies and sweet potatoes carrots and then store them in my wide mouth mason jars and vacuum seal them too.
You guys are a inspiration to me! Thank you for sharing your time and wisdom to everyone.. I have found many ideas from you guys to apply on our future homestead.. I love wine and I was inspired to make my own one day like you guys did on this video.. Keep living.. Take care...
Will love to see Jaimie cooking her storage food, good job I have an Excalibur dehydrator and I love it. If you want to save more space you could make one in powder. Looking forward to buy your wine, awesome.
Nice looking wine; we use a Floor-Model Corker and it works great. Yes they are pricey but you get value; years of use, ease of use.
Is the wine sweet or dry? Granny's face said dry to me. Blackberry wine is great. I wish had some warning cause it drinks like cool aid but kicks like a mule!
If no one has mentioned it a floor corker is definitely worth the 80 bucks.
Don't forget to ask local restaurants and bars for old bottles. Many will like to recycle and will save them for you. Only problem is picking them up on a regular basis.
The folks at Half-acre-homestead take their tomatoes & dehydrate them. Once dehydrated they grind them up for tomato powder. It can them be used to make sauces & such. You could do this with your hot peppers as well. Just a thought...LOL
As for fruit storage, my grandparents use to Jack fruit-juice . Especially apple juice. Cider could only hold so long. I imagine that you could do it with your crop as well. Just another method for storage.
I would love to get an update on the solar dehydrator. We would like to build one here and need more information/ plans?
Hey Maine! There are literally hundreds of free plans for solar dehydrators online. We just picked one and went with it. Most are free. Just search google.
I've never heard of those onions before. So cool.
you could try putting the the fermenting wine in hay in wooden boxes , wood keep a more regular temperature
Hi guys! We just found your channel, what a great job you're doing! And what better way is there to get closer to God than going back to nature.
If you haven't already, try dehydrated broccoli chips, they're delicious :)
Blessings
Ditto to what Luke said. This channel is very interesting. Keep up the good work!
I am curious as to why y'all didn't use the tops of the green onions? Since you were dehydrating them to be used in soups and stews, even if they were tough, they would have worked.
+hearsthewater
I imagine they would still taste as good as boiled bunions.
I love dehydrated fruit. I also love to eat persimmons.
You can also get a marker and change the 5 into a 4. Smile.
Ninette
Congratulations on your first wines!
Hi Im New Fan her but I'm not that big wine drinking what about and doing cider instead? 👍🏻💐 Fan from Denmark
I watch a video from Half Acre homestead and she does a lot of dehydration of foods.
ummmmm don't you know those Egyptian Walking onions grow year round? You harvest the tops as green onions continuously. When they set at top you let them fall off and then collect them to plant and expand your crop. We, at Dogwood Hollow Homestead Community grow these now for 6 years and we love them! They even grow through winter. We always have onions. BTW we are also homesteading in MO. Ozarks, where is your homestead?!
Shalom! Just a couple of ideas here...maybe you could shave or file the cork flat on top, or possibly decorate the top of the bottle neck with colorful paper, sticker, ribbon, bling(jewels, pretty rocks, etc. haha). I am sure you could find a video or tutorial on how to cover that up. Our family just started watching your videos and we are really encouraged and excited to one day have our own homestead. May YHWH bless you all!
Hi guys! Came over from Living on a Dime. Great channel you have! 👌
Dehydrated green beans are called "Leather Britches".
Are you going to make up instructions and a 'how to' tutorial to go with it for the solar dehydrator (plans on DIY) for us? Would be tremendous opportunity to make some extra money for those of us who want to build such as well. You've got the best idea I've seen made. Why not learn from one of the best protypes? Makes sense to me....I'd pay for plans to build one. Just a suggestion....
I have many many pear trees on my property. I'm going to research this, thanks to you I'm very interested in making wine from pears.....? what do you think?
Zach,
Can you share plans for your solar dehydrator?
Not sure if you're a fan of BEER or not, but since you already know and have access to a local home brew shop/store, you would probably enjoy brewing your own BEER (like I say, IF you enjoy good Craft Beer) as well, since you obviously know what your doing with wine making and enjoy that process as well. BTW, what was the alcohol % on your Persimmon wine anyway??.... got some family that made some years ago that came out to about 16%, and it was still a pretty sweet wine.... was freakin' DELICIOUS! ;-)
You guys going to be able to give away or sell your wine, or would that start all sorts of issues with the BATF? I love Persimmon Wine and haven't had it for several years.
Hello.Good joob whit the wine.What calls the solution you use to sterilese the bottles?Thank you and Good be whit you!
How are you vacuume packing your dehydrated veggies. Loving your vids!
great video zack
How did you dispose of the sanitation solution? Did you dump it outside???
Another great video guys. When the dehydrator was built, was there any thoughts of putting it on rollers and a sun tracker. So always faces the sun?
Will these videos be uploaded to the roku channel?
What did you end up doing with all of the tops of the onions?
Use some bees wax on them to seal the cork in . check with the new neighbor for some bees wax,.
So is the solar dehydrator still up and running?
hie I got a doubt while fitting the cork to the wine bottle you use the wet one the one show soaking in hot water or you let it dry completely and used it
if you get a ton of one kinda good and don't need in the pantry what you do with the excesses (feed pets?)
Your statement on the lids is incorrect. A wax(paraffin or beeswax ring placed in a screwtop will seal the wine as well as cork. Wax seals have been used since roman times. My great uncle used to do this instead of cork and I opened the last bottle of mead he made (30 year old mead) and it is still fine.) I do this occasionally and have some 6 year old wine which should be fine. Cork is permeable which is why the used to wax seal the wine bottles.
Is there a video on how to make that outdoor dehydrator??
+Mable Quarry We just got plans off the internet. Search for Solar Dehydrator....lots of free plans out there.
Beet chips. So yummy try beet chips.
I know where I am going for Tabernacles! LOL!
John Mal ME TOO!!
+John Mal Jerusalem, the place God chose? oh wait, I guess that is taking Torah too literally right?
+DerMeister821 the extent of your disdain knows no bounds.
Dustin Wells
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
So in your shame, can you not tell me where you are supposed to celebrate 3 feast days per year? In your folly can you not show me from Torah where Yahweh said to celebrate these feast days? In your ignorance can you tell me if there was yet a temple or not yet?
The irony is you little coward, I wasn't commenting in response to you. Or are you too arrogant and self-centered to realize that?
+DerMeister821 funny, how you were ignored and blocked on Facebook so you sought me out on UA-cam. coincidence? with you I think not.
do you wax over the cork?
I don't drink alcoholic wine. Rather drink fresh squeezed grape juice. Can this make non fermented juice?
Yes. Just don’t ferment it.
dehydrating is awesome but i would avoid carrots in there they don't turn out very well
Carrots need to be blanched first. Potatoes need to be boiled until most starch is gone.
I watched your first season. Then your individual videos. Flew past your persimmon picking, but didn't see it. Too bad that your videos are not in order when lined up on the right side.
I just found your channel yesterday. We love it. Up here in Wisconsin i have been able to get old wine bottles for free by asking at local bars and restaurants. They just toss them or recycle them most of the time. I have used a floor corker from Northern Brewer and it works very well.
www.northernbrewer.com/shop/winemaking/wine-equipment/italian-floor-corker-brass-jaws
Great to do your own wine. My gand dad did the corking (??? sorry I'm a french guy) had just somthing like a hand press. You put the bottle so it stays and with a hand bar it presses the cork into the bottle.
Have just a link :www.embouteille.com/bouchonneuse-produit-230.htm where it shows a tool but as it is simple, I guess you can do such one by your own.... GL for your homestead and BR,
Daniel
Grind up those onions so good on meat
I am probably one year late but here what you need to put the cork down correctly www.amazon.com/BSG-Floor-Corking-Machine/dp/B005FQY8JI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1453220056&sr=8-3&keywords=corking+machine
How long does it take to make deer jerky in the solar dehydrator?
don't eat Bambi
Don't worry too much about Fed Licences wasn't the U.S. built on Moonshine LOL Knock yourself out I'm sure there will be lots of buyers :)
I love dehydrated fruit. I also love to eat persimmons.