When you drink cider on a local apple farm, what you see hanging on the trees is what you get. It is cider made from apples and nothing else. Here’s how it works. Apples are pushed out onto a machine that sprays them with water. (It looks like a reverse water slide.) The clean apples climb upward, like they’re seated on a roller coaster, until they reach the top. At this point, they are pulverized and sucked up by a plastic hose looking more like mashed potatoes than apples.