How To Remove Pits From Cherries

Author: Leticia Celentano Time for reading: ~1 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Cherry is a very tasty berry, so cooks with great joy and willingness use it when making pies, jelly, dumplings, casseroles, clafoutis. Cherry makes a very tasty and beautiful jam. But, for the preparation of all these delicacies, it is necessary to remove the stones from the cherry.

How to get pits out of cherries

It is also advisable to separate the bones when you are preparing preservation for the winter, because cherry seeds contain amygdalin glycoside, a very dangerous toxic substance. The product of its excretion is also dangerous hydrocyanic acid. Therefore, if preservation with cherries will stand for more than a year, the bones for such preservation should definitely be removed.

There are many ways to remove pits from cherries. For such work, you can use improvised means, and it is not at all necessary to buy some special devices for this.

Recipes with fresh cherry ingredient

Option 1

using a sushi stick

Option 2

with wire

Ingredients:

cherry fresh

We will need:

glass bottle
Colander
Sushi stick

How to remove pits from a cherry with a sushi stick step by step instructions with a photo

Step 1

For work, we need a cherry, a bottle, a colander, a sushi stick.

Step 2

Rinse cherries well.

Step 3

Place a cherry on the neck of the bottle.

Step 4

Poke the cherry with force with a sushi stick. The cherry will remain on the neck, and the stone will fall into the bottle. So peel berry by berry.

Step 5

Cherries are ready to go.