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- Fresh cherry juice homemade: juicing cherries
- Obstacles to cherry enjoyment: kernels and cherry vinegar flies
- Juicing methods for cherries
Cherries must be gutted in the saucepan before juicing
Fresh cherry juice homemade: juicing cherries
In summer, the spreading cherry trees with their juicy cherries invite you to make your own cherry juice. There are several methods in question, one being much easier than the others. The cherry juice, however, will definitely taste fruity and yummy.
Obstacles to cherry enjoyment: kernels and cherry vinegar flies
Once the cherries are off the tree, nothing stands in the way of enjoying the fruit, is it? An unpleasant problem is the maggots of the cherry vinegar fly, which like to eat around the cherry tree through the pulp. If you have not covered the tree in time, you are likely to spot small holes in some cherries that indicate a maggot infestation.
However, you do not have to worry: even if you consume the small white maggots or juice affected cherries, you have no health risks to worry about. How careful you should be when sorting out the cherries depends on your tolerance to small animals in your food. Many are of the opinion: Better a little bit of worm than a lot of pesticides!
As with any stone fruit, the preparation of the cherries before processing is quite time-consuming: the stones are stoned with many red splashes and painstaking manual work with knife or stoner. If you want to juice cherries, you can skip this step if you use a steam extractor. This will save you a lot of time and nerves. For all other juicing methods you have to corer the cherries.
Juicing methods for cherries
By far the most recommended method for cherry juicing is the use of a steam degasser. It takes much less time than all other types of juicing because the cherries do not need to be pitted.
- Put the washed cherries with seeds in the fruit basket of the steam degasser. If you want, you can sugar the cherries. Fill the bottom pot with a little water, place the juice collector on top and the fruit basket over it. With the lid closed, the steam extractor now has to stand on the stove for one hour. The finished hot cherry juice then flows through the spout into prepared containers and can be kept for several months without further cooking.
Cooking the cherries in a saucepan with a little water is also possible. However, sweetening the fruit with a sieve will be much easier if you have pitted the cherries before cooking. Also, you should filter the extracted cherry juice through a cloth and reheat to fill it hot and thus to preserve.
If you want to get as much vitality as possible from the cherry and do not intend to store the juice, you should juice your cherries cold. For this purpose, a juicer and a centrifugal juicer are suitable. Even with the use of these electrical appliances, you must corer the cherries beforehand. You should drink the finished juice immediately as it spoils quickly.