the world needs a seedless cherry

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Special K
My only complaint about cherries is the price. Here they are $3.79/lb.

When you pick them at the orchard, they're usually under $1 per pound. We pack a picnic lunch and spend a couple hours there. (It's almost 2 hours to the nearest big orchard.)

2 hours? The cost of gas might eliminate any difference in price of the cherries unless you picked a ton of them.

185 miles round trip; at 22mpg, that's 8.4 gallons. ~$35 for gas. I'll save at least $2 per pound over what I can buy them for locally. I'll probably pick 75 pounds for ourselves. And, I'll have the pits removed from about 60 pounds of those so I can throw them into the freezer. (They have a machine that does it in just a few seconds.) It's like having a bowl of the little frozen bits from cherry ice cream. Plus, A few friends will want me to bring back 5 or 10 pounds each, and they'll give me a few bucks for the cherries plus for my time & gas.

And, as Mosh said, it's a great way to enjoy part of a day. Less than 5 miles away, is the college my son's going to attend; so we might end up there for part of the day as well.

 

[MaxDepth]

8 Pounds here! (Pics to follow) We got a note from a friend of a friend to come pick cherries two weeks ago.



Prepping Cherries
Rinse them all pretty well. Using a pitter or squeezing out the cherries pits yourself, put the pitted cherries into a bucket that contains about a cup of water per 3 pounds along with two tablespoons of an acid, like fresh lemon juice. This liquid concoction will keep the cherries from turning brown and getting nasty. Cover the bucket and put into the back of the fridge (the coldest part). They should keep in solution for about two weeks.

Freezing Cherries
Froze most of them. Take a baking sheet with ridges, spread out wax paper or cling wrap and then spread a layer of cherries on the sheet. Cover with more cling wrap and do it again with more sheets and cherries. You can stack the baking sheets this way. After freezing, put the individual cherries into freezer back and theyy should keep through the summer to early fall.

 

[Saint Nick]

Seedless cherry would be perfect. No more need for condamns or birth control pills!

 

[Homerboy]

And, as Mosh said, it's a great way to enjoy part of a day. Less than 5 miles away, is the college my son's going to attend; so we might end up there for part of the day as well.

Hey I said it!

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

And, as Mosh said, it's a great way to enjoy part of a day. Less than 5 miles away, is the college my son's going to attend; so we might end up there for part of the day as well.

Hey I said it!

Oh, you and Mosh said it

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Special K
My only complaint about cherries is the price. Here they are $3.79/lb.

When you pick them at the orchard, they're usually under $1 per pound. We pack a picnic lunch and spend a couple hours there. (It's almost 2 hours to the nearest big orchard.)

2 hours? The cost of gas might eliminate any difference in price of the cherries unless you picked a ton of them.

185 miles round trip; at 22mpg, that's 8.4 gallons. ~$35 for gas. I'll save at least $2 per pound over what I can buy them for locally. I'll probably pick 75 pounds for ourselves. And, I'll have the pits removed from about 60 pounds of those so I can throw them into the freezer. (They have a machine that does it in just a few seconds.) It's like having a bowl of the little frozen bits from cherry ice cream. Plus, A few friends will want me to bring back 5 or 10 pounds each, and they'll give me a few bucks for the cherries plus for my time & gas.

And, as Mosh said, it's a great way to enjoy part of a day. Less than 5 miles away, is the college my son's going to attend; so we might end up there for part of the day as well.

Wow, 75 lbs. - I had no idea you picked that much. Can you preserve them by freezing and then thaw them out later, as opposed to using them in ice cream? If so, do they taste the same when they are thawed? How long do they stay good if you don't freeze them?

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Homerboy

And, as Mosh said, it's a great way to enjoy part of a day. Less than 5 miles away, is the college my son's going to attend; so we might end up there for part of the day as well.

Hey I said it!

Oh, you and Mosh said it

DON'T LUMP ME IN WITH HER!!!!

 

[Squisher]

The seeds are there to force you bite them in half first. That way you can see if there are any worms in there.


I had a bad experience of first eating about 2 lbs. of them and then having my girlfriend say you need to be sure there aren't any worms in there. So, I bit one in half and sure enough there was some unexpected protein crawling around on the pit looking back at me. It was about twenty years before ate another fresh picked cherry.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: CPA
maraschino

And why has nobody addressed this? That's the first thing I thought of, and unless they take the seeds out, there's your seedless cherry.

 

[SearchMaster]

My cherry tree is sporting ripe delicious red berries as I type. I need to get out there and pick them before the crows eat them all.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Special K
Wow, 75 lbs. - I had no idea you picked that much. Can you preserve them by freezing and then thaw them out later, as opposed to using them in ice cream? If so, do they taste the same when they are thawed? How long do they stay good if you don't freeze them?

I don't put them in ice cream - what I meant is that when they're frozen, or mostly frozen, eating them is like eating the pieces of cherry that are in cherry ice cream. They're also pretty good thawed, or put into muffins, pancakes, etc. For pies, most people prefer to use sour cherries. I don't like sicky sweet pies, and actually enjoy the taste of a pie made from sweet cherries with no added sugar.

 

[chusteczka]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: Imp
Why bother? Look what they did with watermelons. The last couple seedless watermelons I had suck. Nowhere near as sweat and soft as seeded ones. Ya, it sucked to swallow seeds, but mmm-licious.

I've had plenty of delicious seedless watermelons

They still have a few seeds, though. "Seedless" my ass!

Where did you want those seeds planted?