Cherry Pickers

In the season of collecting cherries and cherries, the device for removing bones will be a very useful assistant. It is necessary to consider both the most famous, fast and reliable ways to remove the bones with their own hands, as well as the popular bone distributors of different companies, quality and price category.

Every hostess at least once wondered how quickly and simply remove the bones from cherries and cherries. This is especially true when cooking jam or baking pies for a large family. Squeezing bones with nails is not always possible, it is long and tedious. In addition, the manual method of removing bones from juicy berries is fraught with splashing juice on all surrounding surfaces and clothing. And berry spots, as is known, are very poorly washed.

It would be possible to leave the bones in their places and spit them out on a plate, but it must be remembered that when eating large quantities of unrefined cherries or heating the bones, poisonous hydrocyanic acid is released from the latter, which is dangerous for humans. And also jam from peeled cherries is stored longer, up to three years. Bone cleaner is a modern tool for extracting bones from cherries. The separator apparatus will help to cope with the work faster.

But for starters, it is worthwhile to consider in more detail how to remove the bones with your own hands.

• Pin - this is one of the simplest methods that do not require additional equipment - squeeze the stones with a pin. We need to take the usual pin, it will need her head. You should take a cherry, remove the stem, and in the recess where it used to be, insert the bottom of the pin. It should pick up the bone, squeeze it out. This method is very convenient and simple. The juice will spray less, and it will take a little time to squeeze the bone.

• Hairpin The second method is very similar to the first, but instead of a pin, a regular hairpin is used. The arcuate base of the stud is used as an extruder. And then you need to repeat the first method: take a cherry, insert a pin into the recess of the stem, pry a bone and pull it out. If there is no pin on hand, you can use a paper clip or wire, having folded the latter several times in an arc.

• Chesnokodavilka. Of course, in this method is used not quite a garbage rake. An ordinary garlic press, taken from the mothers, has a round hole on its handle, into which a rod with a blunt tip is inserted. This hole is designed specifically for squeezing the seed. It is necessary to put a cherry in it, a depression from the stem, and lower the second handle of the garlic press, as if the garlic is being squeezed out. The rod will remove the bone from the cherry, it remains only to pick it up.

• Cocktail tube. The tube should be used strong, so that it does not break and does not bend. On a bottle with a thin neck, you need to put the berry, a recess from the stem up. Place the straw in the center of the cherry and press down. The bone falls into the bottle, and a wide through hole remains in the cherry. This method is suitable when you need to clear the berries for seaming the jam or to fill the pies. Unfortunately, it can not be used if the cherries will be used to decorate the cake, because the through hole badly spoils the appearance.
• Bottle and a thick stick. The bottle should be with a thin neck, so that the cherry set on it does not fall inside. Berry should be put a stem up, thick stick (the size of the stone or a little less) to pierce the cherry through exactly in the center. The bone falls into the bottle, the cherry stays upstairs.

Above discussed several ways to remove bones with improvised means.For those who do not want to bother at all, special machines have already been invented, which are called so - cherry cleaners, stone extractors or seed extractors. In addition to cherries, they can also remove bones from cherry plum, olives and olives.

Usually they consist of such parts as:

• extrusion lever;
• tray for dropping pits;
• a lid is a container for feeding cherries and a chute for rolling the peeled berries into a plate.

The principle of the machine is simple. Berry is put in a special groove with a silicone gasket. It is necessary to press the lever and the cross-shaped knife on the spring pushes a through hole in the cherry. The stone goes to the tray under the lid, and the cherry from the pressure that is created due to a sharp lowering of the piston, rolls out into a substituted plate.

Bone extractors are made of food grade plastic. The seed dumping container is made of transparent color plastic, which allows you to monitor its filling level. Pick-ups for stones are made collapsible, so before they begin, they should be assembled. Silicone suckers are located on the outer side of the seed collection tray so that the machine does not go on the table during operation. With the help of a special lever, they can be adjusted and pressed tightly to the table.

Below on the lid there is a round hole in which the knife enters. You need to push plastic plates with cross-shaped holes into it. They are made to fit the size of the berries. A bone will be pressed through this hole. A lid with a lever, which is located at an angle of 45, is superimposed on the tray. It is enough to press it and wait for a click. A knife with a spring is inserted into the lever tube and screwed with a small lid to secure it.

Using the device is very simple. To start cherries need to sort, wash them and remove the stem. Place a bowl or plate under the chute for rolling berries. In the recess on the lid fill the cherry or cherry. It is undesirable to fill to the very top, also with a slide, it is better to put about a jog of sweet cherries.

Berries will roll under the knife one by one. As soon as the cherry was opposite the piston, a sharp strong push is needed to squeeze the bone. The latter will fall into the collection tray, and the peeled cherries will roll into a framed plate.

The advantages of bone removers are the following:

• compactness;
• independence from electricity;
• simple operation;
• easy to disassemble and wash;
• low price;
• berries remain whole;
• juice does not splash, hands do not get dirty;
• fast performance;
• loading cherries in large quantities;
• reliability and safety.

Despite the simplicity of the device, it still has disadvantages, such as:

• you need to try to get a knife exactly in the center of the cherry, and not sideways;
• low price does not mean good quality;
• sometimes the spring sticks;
• unpleasant sound when working;
• you can substitute only a small bowl;
• not suitable for small berries.

There are cars belonging to different price categories. They differ in durability, quality of materials and manufacturer. More expensive devices are made with high quality and will last longer, less break and seize. Of course, if you sometimes pick out the bones by hand because of a non-working lever, there are no problems, then you can pay attention to cheap Chinese cars. If comfort is paramount, Czech or German devices will do.

Vishnechistka middle price category from the Czech company Leifheit. Unlike its Chinese counterpart, it has a metal sharp cross-shaped knife and a piston already assembled. She does not miss cherries and squeezes out all the bones. Outwardly, it is no different from its other counterparts. It takes about 7–10 minutes to clean 1 kg of cherries.

If you do not need to cook jams or pies for a large family or a dedicated budget for the device is relatively small, but you want to buy a quality product, you should pay attention to the dot stone extractors. But they have a significant drawback - the inability to load many berries at once, which, however, is a plus for someone. After all, surely no cherries with stones will be missed. The principle of their work is similar to the machines that have containers.

The machine gun is also made of food plastic, does not contain sharp edges, easily washes. It is necessary to put the berry in a special hole, press the handle, and the bone will fall into the substituted glass. And you need to manually remove the cherry and substitute the following.

As a rule, Chinese cars cost customers 350–400 rubles. The device is not so necessary to pay for it a lot. However, it is not worth saving if you don’t want to buy a new machine every season or manually pick berries to remove the missed bones. Cheap devices sin and strong splashing, as if the bones were removed manually. Russian firms ask for their goods from 700 to 900 rubles. The quality in this case will be much higher, although not comparable with German models.

Tescoma cars cost about 3,000 rubles. Yes it is a lot. But the quality and warranty period are worth it.

Slightly cheaper, you can buy a remover-cherry cleaning machine of the Czech company Leifheit - only 1,800 rubles. According to reviews, it is no different from expensive German, but costs almost 2 times less.

There are still bone quality European quality. German products from Kaiserhoff are focused on the mass market and cost only 1,000–1,200 rubles. Such a machine will last several years and will work quickly and reliably. The performance of such machines is about 10-12 kg / hour, if you learn how to quickly remove the bones. Depending on the quality of the device, it can process frozen or only fresh berries.

Another Russian company that is quite popular in our country is Mayer & Boch. It also produces various dishes and household goods. The price category varies from 350 to 500 rubles for a 1.5 liter cherry peeler. By the typewriter attached instruction that makes it easy to assemble and work. Feedback on their products is generally positive.

If you need to buy a cherry-cleaning machine for an industrial enterprise, for example, a cafe or a factory, you should consider purchasing an electrical device. After washing, cherries are poured onto a wide ribbon, where they are going to the drum with a locking mechanism. He holds the berries in one position. Rotating, the bone separator drum inserts cherries under the knives that knock out the bones. The latter drain one chute into the waste tank, and the peeled cherries go further on the conveyor.

Industrial machines operate on the network, can produce from 70 to 100 kg / hour, depending on the power. They are made of stainless steel, which allows them to be exploited for a long time and not allowed to be covered by corrosion.

A cherry peeler is more than a handy machine. As they say, the taste and color of comrades is not. So this device has collected both positive and negative reviews. Someone writes that such a device is the most necessary thing in life, because with it it is easy and simple to sort out and cook at least 5 kg of cherries at a time. Someone does not like, because not all machines work efficiently. People do not understand when they have to refine their work and lose time.

The main reason why women like cherry-cleansing so much is less time spent cleaning berries and manicures, which is so important for most of them, remains clean and untainted. Men use this device only for the sake of saving time and effort, because the latter is an invaluable product that you want to spend on something more pleasant than tedious monotonous work.

An overview of cherry pitting machines see below.