You’ve Probably Been Feeding Peaches All This Time
I love peaches – I can eat peaches for hours! – but I don’t like taking out the stubborn, literally clinging bone from the center of the fruit. Luckily, I follow some very smart people on social media and these people often have solutions for day to day troubles like these. (I really hate to say, “You did it wrong!” So I’ll just say, “ I did it wrong,” because I don’t know your life.)
Even though I follow It’s Holly on Instagram, somehow I missed this adorable instructional video in which she explained how I ruined my life by slicing peaches from stem to base rather than at their equator.
Luckily, Naomi Tomki from The Kitchn caught it, tried it, wrote about it and tweeted about it, which led me to try it, love it, and write this little post about it.
The tip is simple: take a peach and cut it in half, cutting the middle of it perpendicular to the jagged line that runs along the side of the peach. Twist the halves gently until one comes off. Wow. It was easy.
Then cut the halves into quarters, making sure they are cut at a 90 degree angle from this small line. Twist again, then remove the bone from the quarter.
I’ve tried this little tip with both peaches and nectarines and it worked well with both. I even tried it with these flat peach donuts and they worked. It might not sound incredibly life-changing if you’re chewing the fruit straight from the bone, but it will sure make summer a lot easier for people who love to cook and eat peach tarts, peach brownies, peach ice cream, and other stone fruits. variegated desserts.