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How to peel cherries – tools, methods and tips
Peeling fruit from bones for future use is troublesome, especially when the fruits are small. To facilitate the process, housewives use office supplies, accessories, and special mechanical devices. We will tell you how to quickly peel cherries in different ways in this article.
Experienced housewives know how to quickly peel cherries without staining the kitchen and hands.
Is it possible to cope without the means at hand?
Peeling berries by hand is a simple and old way that does not require any additional devices. Its technology is simple: one hand holds the cherry, the other picks out a stone from the side to which the stalk is attached. This is done with the index or thumb.
The method has disadvantages:
· takes much time;
· Requires a certain skill;
· In case of unsuccessful picking, the berry falls apart.
After manipulation, the hands are stained with cherry juice, which is not easy to remove. You can clean your fingers with a soda scrub, lemon mask and thorough washing. In order not to fiddle with dirty hands, it is better to wear disposable gloves during the procedure.
How to peel cherries with simple tools?
To ease the painstaking process at least a little, folk craftsmen began to use improvised items. Pins are a popular “tool” that helps remove seeds with minimal contamination and loss of berry juice. How to use this item?
1. Squeeze the cherry between your fingers.
2. Insert a pin into the cherry (preferably in the area where the stalk is attached).
3. Pick up the bone with the pin head and pull it out of the hole.
Likewise, you can use paper clips and other tools with a loop at the end. Cocktail tubes are also suitable for cleaning cherries. With their help, the berry is pierced through, and the stone flies out from the opposite end. These are simple and cheap ways to peel cherries, the video presented at the end of the article clearly demonstrates this.
The above methods are suitable for preparing small amounts of cherries. To preserve berries for future use or to boil several jars of jam, you will have to spend a whole day cleaning by hand. Therefore, for such purposes, housewives use special devices.
On sale there are simple bone separators that look like a stapler. The principle of their operation is similar to the actions with a cocktail tube: they pierce the cherry through and through, pushing the bone into a special container.
There are also automatic devices that process large quantities of the product on their own. Cherries are immediately placed in it in a batch and passed through a special mechanism. At the same time, you do not need to get your hands dirty, waste time and pick berries by hand. Alas, the technique is not perfect: 10% of processed fruits remain with a stone. In addition, the purchase of such an assistant significantly hits the family budget, the price of a car varies from 1 to 6 thousand rubles.