I’m a real beginner with this stuff and I read through the install scripts before running them. But it wasn’t for security, I just wanted to see if I could learn some tips since I had already struggled to do it manually.

There’s a machine that cores, peels, and makes spiral slice apples. You can then with one knife cut turn it into rings, which dry easily in a food dehydrator. If you’re making juice, I’ve heard a mop bucket works pretty well for pressing. It’s pretty easy to ferment apple juice with cider yeast, champagne yeast, or even beer yeast. If you freeze distill hard cider it becomes apple jack - you freeze hard cider in a bowl and drop it into a salad spinner to leave the frozen water in the center. Apple sauce is also a good base for homemade fruit leather with any other fruit.