Yeah I love having a stash of things and admiring them on the shelf - haha - got heaps of nectarines at the moment so had my first go at bottling them this year 😀
Genius!! We have a ton of wild plumbs and wild Italian Plums that were not taken care of when we bought this home. I spent hours of removing seeds because my husband loves dehydrated plums all year around... Never again!! He'll be eating plum strips from now on with this method! I can not thank you enough!!
THANK YOU!!! Grandpa got sick and is on hospice and I’m in charge of the trees and garden, had NO idea what to do with all the heckin cherry plums! This was so much easier than trying to cut the pits out
That is just brilliant. I have these really tiny wild plums that have a glorious flavor but the pits are just about impossible to remove. Now I can turn my harvest into something really delicious, thank you so much!
Oh my god you just saved me 3 hours of work! Following your advice about keeping the skins, i just squished the plums and separated the skins before cooking them! This was so easy! Thank you 💕
Hey this is awesome, when you have abundance of plum this is a good idea, canning em or making em jam .. so delicious and healthy, back then we have abundant strawberry in FL me and hubby made the into jam and they are still good until today. Thanks for sharing this awesome tips and stay safe
Good idea and I think it would, as these stones are a very similar size! Never tried it myself though so would be interesting to hear back if you give it a go 🙂
Ok, I don't have my own cherries anymore this year. I made an observation that commercial cherries have grown considerably, because only garden cherries would fit in the pitter. I broke it with a pit stuck sideways. Garbage aluminum alloy without any elasticity. You are an expert fruit processor. Do you knоw if it is possible to ruin a jam or syrup by crushing some seeds of currants or gooseberries? I processed them in a blender to cut the skins, and ended with a Black Tea (red/c, threw them out) or Fishy taste (goose). I only did it enough to shred the skins, but some seeds were cut. I processed black currants with a potato masher and they turned out good. But gooseberries are too big to have whole skins. I have no control with the exact same berries. We know that some seeds have tannins and amygdalin. I really like a blender to make a quick job of berries, but maybe the slow route is the way to go.
Not sure I'd say I'm a professional but certainly learning as I go! The seeds definitely do add strange flavours to things so I'd say crushing some of them would certainly add strange flavours to things - unfortunately sometimes the easy way isn't always the best!
I got a basket of small plums. I found that I needed to cut them open because some of them had Maggots inside. I crudely separated the skins and stones. The skins were processed in a blender. Stones were boiled, cooled slightly and then processed using a hand mixer. Each plum was 20-25 grams, so it was doable. The result is smooth, drinkable, in red color from the skins.
Hello from South Africa! I hope you can help :-) I want to make jam from a fruit known as Stam Vrugte (Englerophytum magalismontanum) - the pit is similar to a Litchi but the flesh of the fruit REALLY sticks to the pit - Unlike a litch where you can squeeze the fruit off the pit. The Stam Vrugtepit is also smooth, and very bitter if you bite into it. Any advice? Thank you!
Hey - I just had to look that up as I've never heard of it before! I'm not sure if the method I used here for the plums would work? Before this method I'd just boil them up really well and use a slotted spoon to smoosh them onto the side of the bowl and fish the pits out ... must more labour involved that way of course! Hope you find a solution 🙂
I can everything. Fruit, jams, bone broth, moose, pickles. It warms me knowing younger people still can. CANNERS UNITE!
Yeah I love having a stash of things and admiring them on the shelf - haha - got heaps of nectarines at the moment so had my first go at bottling them this year 😀
Hallelujah! I cannot believe how well this worked! Thank you - you have saved me hours of misery over a colander!!!
You're very welcome 😀
Thank you , love your idea...😊
Thank you! 😊
Brilliant. The exact solution for the problem I searched. Thanks heaps.
Awesome - glad to be of help 😊
Thank you for sharing
This is exactly what kind of plum we are dealing with
Plums are yellow
Mushy inside
Glad to be of help 🙂
Genius!! We have a ton of wild plumbs and wild Italian Plums that were not taken care of when we bought this home. I spent hours of removing seeds because my husband loves dehydrated plums all year around... Never again!! He'll be eating plum strips from now on with this method! I can not thank you enough!!
Awesome! It's been a lifesaver for me as well, I used to spend ages trying to sift through all the stones as well lol
THANK YOU!!! Grandpa got sick and is on hospice and I’m in charge of the trees and garden, had NO idea what to do with all the heckin cherry plums! This was so much easier than trying to cut the pits out
You're very welcome ... too good a tip not to share I thought lol 😀
That is just brilliant. I have these really tiny wild plums that have a glorious flavor but the pits are just about impossible to remove. Now I can turn my harvest into something really delicious, thank you so much!
You're so welcome - I spent many an hour painfully removing stones before discovering this method lol
Oh my god you just saved me 3 hours of work! Following your advice about keeping the skins, i just squished the plums and separated the skins before cooking them! This was so easy! Thank you 💕
lol glad to be of help! Many hours I've spent doing this in the past before I discovered this technique 😀
Same 😂 I had started cutting out the pits and it was taking forever!
i love plums! thanks for sharing this easy way to remove the stones!
You are so welcome!
Thanks soooooo much! I was just given a big bag of these for the 1st time & this video really relieved me! Sincerely from St George Utah USA
You're very welcome! Many hours I spent fiddling with these stones before I worked this one out lol
@@CheaperWaysNZ Simply brilliant!
A big thank-you!! I’ll give it a go in the morning.. 💕🙏
Hope it works for you - it's been a life-saver for me as it's my favourite jam!
Hey this is awesome, when you have abundance of plum this is a good idea, canning em or making em jam .. so delicious and healthy, back then we have abundant strawberry in FL me and hubby made the into jam and they are still good until today.
Thanks for sharing this awesome tips and stay safe
Yeah great to have a pantry full of jars for the off-season!
Thank you! Our plum tree is filled and we wanted to make a fruit leather but the pits were tearing up the fruit. We are trying this now! 😊
Yay hope it works for you!
Brilliant
Thanks!
GREAT IDEA, THANKS
You're welcome 🙂
Bloody brilliant!
Thanks!!
Just used your trick. Saved a heap of time. Cheers.
@@roilhead oh awesome! Yeah so much easier eh.
Smart!
Thanks 😀
oh that's clever thank you!
You're welcome! 😊
Thank you! I have three loaded trees of plums.
Yay glad to be of help!
Thank you 💜
No problem 😊
mmmm plums
I reckon ... overrun with nectarines at the moment too - so good!
This method seems to have worked well. Does it also works on cherries? I broke my cherry pitter this season.
Good idea and I think it would, as these stones are a very similar size! Never tried it myself though so would be interesting to hear back if you give it a go 🙂
Ok, I don't have my own cherries anymore this year. I made an observation that commercial cherries have grown considerably, because only garden cherries would fit in the pitter. I broke it with a pit stuck sideways. Garbage aluminum alloy without any elasticity.
You are an expert fruit processor. Do you knоw if it is possible to ruin a jam or syrup by crushing some seeds of currants or gooseberries? I processed them in a blender to cut the skins, and ended with a Black Tea (red/c, threw them out) or Fishy taste (goose). I only did it enough to shred the skins, but some seeds were cut. I processed black currants with a potato masher and they turned out good. But gooseberries are too big to have whole skins. I have no control with the exact same berries. We know that some seeds have tannins and amygdalin.
I really like a blender to make a quick job of berries, but maybe the slow route is the way to go.
Not sure I'd say I'm a professional but certainly learning as I go! The seeds definitely do add strange flavours to things so I'd say crushing some of them would certainly add strange flavours to things - unfortunately sometimes the easy way isn't always the best!
I got a basket of small plums. I found that I needed to cut them open because some of them had Maggots inside. I crudely separated the skins and stones. The skins were processed in a blender. Stones were boiled, cooled slightly and then processed using a hand mixer. Each plum was 20-25 grams, so it was doable. The result is smooth, drinkable, in red color from the skins.
Do you rebuild it down once you do that for jam?
Yeah once I've got the stones out I boil it again / add the sugar etc and start making jam from there 👍
Hello from South Africa! I hope you can help :-) I want to make jam from a fruit known as Stam Vrugte (Englerophytum magalismontanum) - the pit is similar to a Litchi but the flesh of the fruit REALLY sticks to the pit - Unlike a litch where you can squeeze the fruit off the pit. The Stam Vrugtepit is also smooth, and very bitter if you bite into it. Any advice? Thank you!
Hey - I just had to look that up as I've never heard of it before! I'm not sure if the method I used here for the plums would work? Before this method I'd just boil them up really well and use a slotted spoon to smoosh them onto the side of the bowl and fish the pits out ... must more labour involved that way of course! Hope you find a solution 🙂
@@CheaperWaysNZ thank you kindly for your reply 🙏🏼