Stop cooking your cider! Craft cidermakers and winemakers use potassium metabisulfite in their juice to knock down bad bugs if they are not doing a wild ferment. I know this is a beer forum and you guys are used to cooking everything to kill off the bad bugs in your wort. When you cook cider you flush the apple flavors you want so bad right down the drain. Add a little sulfite, stir it in, done, you dont even have to clean a big pot when you are done. Its also very cheap and is also sold as camden tablets for people who have problems measuring out stuff with spoons. WVMJ