It works great. We did apples and the we did strawberries. The apples we put 4 lbs and got about 12 cups of juice. I forgot to measure the strawberries but we got 10 cups of juice. The strawberry juice we put in jars when it was hot so it sealed. Now when you open a jar the juice got a little thicker just about a syrup, must have some natural pectin in it. So you take about a 1/4 cup and then add ginger ale and depending the the day maybe some vodka , very good drink.