How many surprisingly delicious dishes can be made from cherries: dumplings, pies, jam, etc. However, seedless berry is required for these dishes. To remove it, the housewives use all the tools at hand from simple pins to professional appliances.
Manual pitting
Simple objects that every housewife will have can help remove cherry pits. It is important that this item has a kind of eyelet at the end. For example, pins or pins can easily cope with this task. To do this, enter its end into the berry in the place where the stalk was located, pick up a bone and remove it from the berry. As a rule, after a few minutes of training, the process becomes clear, and the berries are peeled quickly and easily. With the same success, you can use steel wire, rolled up with a loop at the end. The disadvantage of manual removal of seeds is that the berries lose a lot of juice, and it’s difficult to wash your hands after such an activity.
Craftsmen also use a straw for cocktails, punching berries in the middle so that the stone pops up from the back. However, this process requires skill. Before you learn to do it neatly and quickly, you will have to spoil more than one berry.
To remove seeds, you can adapt a peeler knife with a device for cleaning potato eyes at the end. The berry, in this case, most often loses its integrity, but is quite suitable for making jams and as a filling for a pie.
An interesting home invention is the removal of bones with the help of eyebrow tweezers in the form of small scissors. At their end is tweezers with thick edges. It is necessary to introduce it into the berry, grab a bone and pull out, slightly scrolling for minimal loss of juice.
Automated pitting
On sale are devices for removing seeds from berries and fruits. Among them, you can find specialized devices both for small berries, such as cherries and cherries, and for larger fruits - plums, apricots, etc. The device is similar in effect. The essence of the process lies in the fact that a berry placed on a designated cell is punched with a needle with various tips. At the same time, some manufacturers have provided containers for automatic feeding of berries and receivers for peeled berries, so juice loss in this case is minimal, and the process is fast and very accurate. There is even an option to remove seeds from frozen berries. Industrial appliances have been created for cafes, restaurants and small bakeries, which allow to clean up to 90 kg of cherries per hour. They can be used in everyday life, if the territory allows, because such a design takes up a lot of space.
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