How To Clean Berries

hi i'm trish from honey pies recipes and today i'm going to demonstrate how to clean and prepare berries let's start with blueberries that's the easiest just take a bowl filled with cold water dump your berries in swish them around and then my detail work here we just need to look for soft berries and sometimes the blueberries have a little piece of stem left on them and you want to pull that off and throw it away these are beautiful that really plump mmm sweet dough very nice we always wash the berries because there can be bugs there's dirt I know there's a lot of controversy with the more delicate berries such as for blackberries and raspberries if you know the source don't bother to wash them but they still come from a garden with dirt that can be a few bugs so it could be something and I just prefer to wash them it makes me feel better it also gives me an opportunity to go through and look for anything that might be too soft or not quite right enough next the raspberries are pretty straightforward they just need a good little toss swish your berries around gently and pull up little scoops basically just Pat them a little see this one see it's very soft it's not holding its shape this one is on its way out too so I would discard those clean raspberries wonder how they taste mm-hmm those are good too next onto blackberries but before I open them I want to show you with raspberries and blackberries because there's such a delicate fruit they have this little white pad on the bottom and that just sort of absorbs any bruised juices but that's a sign that there are bruised fruit in there so what I do when I go to the store is I hold it upside down and I look at that little white sheet in there and to see that it is white if this in the case this were purple I would assume that there were a lot of damaged berries if it were raspberries and it were pink or deep red I would assume that there's a lot of damaged raspberries and I would go on and look for another package put into cold water gentle swish now see at the bottom it's very white want just one little tiny purple stain on there and that's up to sign the fruit is really in good shape swish them around for any damaged fruit he's a really great shape I prefer not to serve damaged fruit there's really nothing wrong with it if it had mold on it or something like that it would be different but the texture is very very soft and mushy it doesn't make a very pretty presentation and frankly it doesn't feel very good on the palate so I just prefer to throw them out last berry we're going to work with is strawberries these sweet and very light rinsing through a colander they don't need to be soaked I'm just going to take these right over to the sink give it a little wash and I'll be right back all the strawberries needed was a light rinse now we need to remove the hull I use a simple just little paring knife and just go right around in a circle to remove the hull and that's gone now with strawberries sometimes you want to use them whole but if you're making a strawberry shortcake or something else you want to slice them with this size strawberry I would cut it in half vertically and cut it in half again this just retains the shape of the strawberry as opposed to slicing it horizontally if you slice it horizontally it doesn't look like a strawberry anymore that's much nicer I think in your dessert than that later in lesson two we're going to make a triple berry crisp and that will have the black berry as the raspberries and the blueberries and it's one of my favorite dessert but it's also something that I make more often for breakfast I think it's a great way to start the day with a nice little oatmeal crust on top and delicious fresh fruit the strawberries on the other hand I never like to cook them there's something that gets lost about the berry when it's cooked so I would like to keep them around for just eating a bowl like this with whipped cream or some strawberry shortcake or make strawberry ice cream with some fresh berries that's delicious too thanks for watching honey pies recipes and letting me bring my kitchen to yours

Channel: Honeypie's Recipes

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Keywords: how to clean berries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries

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Length: 5min 34sec (334 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 02 2016