How To Peel Pears

Author: Alexander Bruni Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Pear is an excellent juicy and fragrant fruit. The pear enjoys well-deserved love from both adults and children. It is delicious in any form - in salads, desserts, pastries, jams, compotes or smoothies.

How to peel a pear

But no one likes to spit out pear seeds while eating. Whether you're going to cook pears in wine or caramel, bake with cheese topped with bacon, add to charlottes, or bake a cake with whole pears, you need to properly prepare the pears for further processing.

There are recipes that require the pear to retain its integrity. There are recipes where we use halves of pears or cut them into pieces. In any case, we need to get rid of the seed box, the skin and the area with the stalk. Using our advice on how to peel pears for different dishes, you can easily prepare beautiful and delicious favorite pear dishes.

Recipes with fresh pear ingredient

Option 1

halves

Option 2

whole

Ingredients:

Fresh pear

We will need:

Cutting board
Knife
vegetable peeler
noisette

How to peel pears in halves step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

For work, we need pears, a cutting board, a knife, a special knife for peeling vegetables, a noisette.

Step 2

Cut the pear in half. To do this, place it on a cutting board vertically and cut from the stem to the base.

Step 3

Cut out the core with seeds with a noisette. If you don't have a noisette, use a small measuring spoon or teaspoon.

Step 4

Cut out the stalk section with a knife, making a V-shaped incision.

Step 5

Also remove the base of the pear.

Step 6

Using a fruit and vegetable peeler, remove the peel.

Step 7

The pear is ready to work.

Ingredients:

Fresh pear

We will need:

Cutting board
Knife
vegetable peeler
Coring knife

How to peel whole pears step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

For work, we need pears, a small knife, a special knife for peeling vegetables, a knife for removing the core.

Step 2

Using a knife, cut out the base at the bottom of the pear.

Step 3

Next, use a knife to make a vertical hole inside the pear, carefully removing the seed box. We use a knife if, according to the recipe, we need not just a whole pear on top, but also a ponytail on top (for the beauty of serving).