The information is as accurate as the contributors can reasonably manage, but no contributor accepts any liability. Mills Having got your apples or pears you need some way of extracting the juice. The first step it to mill the fruit. Essentially this step consists of reducing the fruit to a pulp so that you can press the juice out of it. There are a number of ways you can do this.
Some people freeze the fruit and then allow it to thaw.
The disadvantage of this method is that it can easily destroy the wild yeasts present on the fruit skin. This is not a problem if you want to ferment with a defined yeast strain, but is a problem if you want to use wild yeasts. The most common way of approaching this step is to liquidise the fruit in some way, usually in a scaled up version of a domestic liquidiser. Sacks'N'Socks Cider by Ifor Williams. A brief description of a common method of milling contained within a recipe.