Is it possible to quickly sort through the forest strawberries and is there a device for cleaning tails?

Forest strawberries can be consumed fresh, frozen or processed into homemade preparations.This berry grows on the meadows and meadows in most regions of our country. But over the collected delicious berries will have to work hard, cleansing it from the green sepals. The article will discuss how to quickly sort out the field and forest strawberries.

Anyone who has ever picked garden or meadow berries, is familiar with the long and laborious process of removing their tails. Someone, to his joy, is able to enjoy this activity. But to some, this painstaking and monotonous procedure is given through force. Besides, it often happens that there is simply no time for a long process of cleaning the fruit.

In the case of wild, field or forest strawberries, the task is further complicated by the size of the berries. They are much smaller than the fruits of "domesticated" varieties. But to note the housewives still have a few tips on how to quickly and easier to clean the tails of small berries.

The easiest way to process strawberries is to break the leaves with your own hands. Gently picking a berry, sepals can be removed with the fingers of the other hand. Much more convenient if she is leading. And also it is possible to hook tails with a fingernail. Here, owners of long marigolds will have a distinct advantage. This method is not too fast. And if you need to sort out large amounts of berries, it is also very tedious.

Tools and fixtures

• Small leaves on the top of the strawberry can be removed with tweezers or tweezers. It is important to capture all the green part at the base. As a result, the tail will be pulled out entirely, and not on separate leaves.
• Field berries can be cleaned using a small knife with a thin blade. It is best to stack strawberries one by one on a cutting board. Holding the berries with your fingers, you need to carefully cut off the green leaves.
• You can contrive to cut the tops of forest strawberries with small nail scissors. Act, of course, you need to be careful not to injure your hands.
• Relatively recently in the online stores appeared a device for removing the sepals from the berries. This is a simple mechanical device that allows you to capture the tail at the base and easy to tear it off. So far this simple, but useful piece is not on the usual shelves. But many, having ordered this device and taking advantage of it, were satisfied.

Some hostesses have guessed how you can use a juice extractor (juice extractor) to clean the small berries from the tails. Surely many people imagine this nozzle for the meat grinder, which allows you to squeeze the juice and pulp from fruits and vegetables. When scrolling through the raw material, the fluid mass seeps through the bottom sieve. All hard and hard parts of the fruit are pressed and then removed through the waste hole.

But unwanted trash and leaves will be separated. The use of a juice extractor is very handy if the strawberries continue to be used for making jam or berry puree. After all, there is no need for an additional procedure of wiping the fruit through a sieve.

It is worth noting that in some cases you can do without cutting the sepal. There are plenty of tried recipes for sweet blanks that use berries along with green tails. Before you decide on a rather time-consuming procedure of cleaning small strawberries, it will be useful to familiarize yourself with them. If there is no time for processing the berries, you can recycle it entirely, following the recommendations in the recipes.

Here is one of the recipes of jam, for the preparation of which unpeeled wild strawberries are used:

• rinse the berry well under running water, drain in a colander;
• sprinkle fruit on a towel and let dry;
• put strawberries in a large saucepan or enamel basin;
• in the ratio of 1: 1, pour the sugar with sugar;
• when the strawberries give juice, put the container on a small fire;
• bring to a boil and cook the berries for about half an hour, removing the foam;
• Allow the mass to cool, then reheat and boil for 15–20 minutes;
• pour hot jam over sterilized jars.

Another way to clean strawberries and strawberries is given in the next video.