Which core for cherry is better: manual or mechanical?

Different properties of cherries can be told endlessly. It is difficult to name a tree more famous and useful for a person. People use not only its fruits, but also leaves, flowers, bark, wood, and even pitch. The cherry pricker is a manual mechanical or electrical assistant in the processing and harvesting of this favorite berry.

Delicious and tasteful

Cherry berries contain many different substances and vitamins:

• Cobalt and iron;
• Calcium and magnesium;
• Anthocyanin and coumarin;
• Folic, ellagic and ascorbic acids;
• Enzymes and tannins ;
• Pectin, fructose and sucrose;
• Vitamins of group B and P.

However, not everything is as wonderful as it may seem. In the bones of these fruits contains amygdalin, one of the components of the cleavage of which is the strongest poison - hydrocyanic acid. That is why it is recommended to use a stone for the cherry before preparing compotes with the addition of this delicious berry. The good news is that amygdalin loses its active properties with sufficient heat treatment.

How not to get your hands dirty with juice

Jam from cherries, cooked without a single stone, just melts in your mouth! However, the preparation of such a treat is a very laborious process: after all, every berry must be passed through his hands, separating the flesh.

The easiest way is to use a hairpin or a paper clip. Some resourceful housewives make it an ordinary cocktail. The downside is that a lot of juice flows from the berries and the hands are painted in burgundy color.

If you want to accelerate and improve this process, you can buy a hand-held stone for a cherry. The responses of those who used such adaptations are the best:

• Much more convenient and faster than the hairpin;
• Follows less juice.

Some manufacturers offer kitchen machines, the application of which makes the process of releasing your favorite berries from a hard core simply fun. Do not need to keep each cherry by hand, do not need to wash everything around from the juice. In the wells of the working tray, immediately put a number of berries, turn the lever - and at the same time all the stones fall into the receiving container, and the pulp enters the other container along the groove.

For the owners of the cherry orchard

The most advanced housewives acquire for their kitchen more productive devices. These include a modern bone-stone for a cherry. An electrical appliance is a machine with good performance. The principle of operation is very simple: the berries are poured into the receiving tray and the button is pressed. Loss of pulp and juice is minimal, hands remain clean, everything happens very quickly.

Manufactures that produce canned fruit, use at their enterprises larger mechanisms. The industrial stone-borer for cherries processes berries in huge batches and practically without losses.

What to do with bones - really throw it away?

From cherries do jams and compotes, vareniki and pies with this berry are very tasty, you can dry it, dry it and, of course, just use it fresh. Cherry water, obtained by distilling flowers under water vapor, cures some inflammatory infections of the eyes. A mixture of cherry juice with milk is a well-known folk remedy for joint diseases. Decoctions from the branches, alcohol tinctures from the roots are excellent in the treatment of indigestion and intestines. Foliage has long been used as an antiseptic vitamin tea as a blood-restoring and anti-inflammatory agent.

And what to do with the solid center of the fruit, which separated the stone for the cherry? Are they completely useless?

Of course not! If you split the shell, remove the cores and grind, then the obtained substance can be applied to the sore spot with joint inflammation and gout.