You can eat cherries as a snack, add them to sweet breakfasts, cakes, or make compote. There is one catch, however, and that is the pits. How do you get rid of them quickly and easily when you don’t have a pitter at hand? A home trick will come to the rescue.
What does eating cherries give you? Amazing taste and lots of vitamins
Summer is not only about holidays, beautiful, sunny weather, trips and long days, but also the season for delicious fruits and . Among them are tasty and healthy cherries and sweet cherries. They are rich in vitamin A, C, K, E, B6, as well as thiamine, folic acid, zinc, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus. They have anti-inflammatory effects and have a lot of fiber, so it is worth including them in your diet. However, when you want to use them for baking or compote, they can be difficult to process. All because of the seeds. How do you get rid of them without unnecessary and time-consuming picking?
How to remove pits from cherries and sour cherries? How to get rid of cherry pits? Photo: pexels.com / Leyla Elma
How to get rid of cherry pits? Spend 15 PLN
The easiest and quickest way to get rid of pits is to buy a pitter. It shouldn’t break your budget too much, as prices start at just PLN 15. However, not everyone has the time or desire to go shopping or buy another device that will simply sit there for most of the year. So what if you need to process a lot of cherries, but don’t have the right equipment at hand? It turns out that a safety pin will be enough. With its help, the whole process will go much smoother and faster.
How to pit cherries without a pitter? Two home remedies
The safety pin trick is extremely simple. Simply stick it into the cherry where the stem used to be and pull out the stone. This will make it much faster to process even a lot of . If you don’t have a safety pin, you can use a straw and a bottle with a narrow neck, and you won’t have to clean up the stones. This trick will only work with slightly larger fruits. What exactly does it involve? If you’d like, please vote in our poll below.
- Place a cherry or sour cherry on the thread of the bottle.
- From the top, at the stalk, stick a straw into it and press until the seed falls out at the bottom, directly into the bottle.
WARNING! When doing the safety pin trick, remember to insert the safety pin from the side that doesn’t have the needle on it.
Source: Gazeta
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