On Friday morning we went to the house of one of Rich's bosses and picked some cherries. We did this last year too and we still have cherries left but we wanted to pick some more. We ended up picking way too many once again, but we figured we would just dry most of them (thanks to the dehydrator we borrowed from Joann!)
So in order to dry them, we needed to pit them. We had been looking for a pitter everywhere and hadn't found anything. I guess everyone has been out for a couple weeks because cherries are ripening. Luckily we found one and then we found an automatic one (it does lots and lots of cherries really fast). We ended up getting both just so we had a backup one. Here's the thing in action:
Then once they were pitted we put them in the nice dehydrator and let that thing do the rest. We've been drying them for about 2 days now..and we have lots of dried cherries, but we didn't even use half of them up yet!
With the rest of the cherries we decided that we were just going to make fruit leather. I know that we would both eat that up pretty quick :) They are taking up the fridge so we are going to have to do that soon.
2 comments:
you are amazing! you pick, pit and dry cherries. you sew clothing. you garden. wow! if only i had half the skills you have!
That is so neat! I've never dehydrated anything.
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