Sweating is a process of holding fruit postharvest in storage conditions that allow the apples to soften and ripen in preparation for cidermaking. The difference between sweating and simply storing apples, explains Spencer Morris of Sowams Cider Works Company in Warren, Rhode Island, is that with storage, “you try and keep the stuff from going bad. Sweating, you sort of allow it to ease its way toward decomposition.” This means there will be some inevitable fruit loss, but the end results are worth it.
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