The farmers’ market is overflowing with the best of summer fruit and vegetables: cherries, blueberries, zucchini, and more. Once you decide what to cook with it all, use these quick and clever techniques to peel, slice, and pit your produce.
1. Hull Strawberries with a Straw
New Nostalgia
Forget endless slicing and paring. Instead, remove the hulls of your strawberries by poking down through the center of the fruit with a drinking straw.
2. Slice Cherry Tomatoes on a Lid
The Kitchn
Cut your prep time down. Place your cherry tomatoes between two plastic lids (like the ones on a large yogurt container) and run your knife through them all at the same time.
Martha Stewart
Make your fruit last and last. Freeze fresh fruit (and herbs) with water in ice cube trays. Pop them out and use them for lemonade, cocktails, and more. It’s an elegant and flavorful way to chill your drinks.
Real Simple
Slicing corn off the cob is a messy but necessary summer task. Make it neater by anchoring the cob on a center of a bundt or tube pan, then slice. The pan catches the kernels and keeps the cob sturdy as you cut.
5. Use Melon Rinds as Fruit Bowls
My Recipes
The ultimate way to reuse your fruit! Once you cube your melon, add the fruit back into the rind with an assortment of other berries and summer fruit. You’ll have a prettier, more seasonal table display without needing to wash an extra bowl: win-win.
6. Serve Sorbet in Citrus Rinds
Bon Appetit
These sorbet cups are some of the smartest ideas we’ve come across. Scoop out grapefruit rinds and fill them with homemade or store-bought sorbet in bright colors. It’s fun to eat and will have your friends wildly impressed with your kitchen chops.
24 Carrot Kitchen
Squeezing lemons with your hands is tedious and messy. Use a pair of kitchen tongs instead: You’ll get more juice out faster and you’ll skip the stinging, messy hands.
8. Pit Cherries with a Paper Clip
Chowhound
We’d happily eat cherry pie all day long, but we’re not that into pitting dozens of cherries. If you don’t have a cherry pitter (who has the space?), use a paper clip instead to quickly and easily remove the pits.
The Kitchn
Sometimes after an overzealous trip to the market or strawberry picking, we end up with too much fruit to eat. Don’t let it go to waste! Dry it in your oven to use in granola or just for snacking. Just spread it on a baking sheet and dry it for a few hours (usually around 6) at the lowest temperature possible (200°F for most ovens).
Momables
Don’t let your berries go to waste. Once you bring them home, rinse them in a 3-1 water to white vinegar solution. Then store them in the fridge to extend their freshness.
Posie Harwood is a New York City-based writer and photographer. She grew up on a farm and likes raw milk, warm bread with butter, and plenty of fresh air. Follow her on Instagram, and her blog 600 Acres.
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