How to make a homemade strawberry De-Stalker

Strawberry season is in full swing, and there’s certainly no reason to complain about the harvest. Thanks to the warm weather, there’s a huge abundance of strawberries this year. Just head out to the garden and eat your fill. Of course, pick-your-own strawberry farms have also opened up, so you can take advantage of those as well. In the following lines, we’ll make an exception and not focus on growing strawberries or the tricks associated with a bountiful harvest of these wonderful red, sweet fruits. Instead, we’ll take a closer look at how to make a simple homemade strawberry hulling machine.

The stem has to go—and usually a bit of the fruit too

We’ve all been there. When we want to enjoy a delicious strawberry, we pick it from the bush and then try to remove the stem.Sometimes it comes off on its own, leaving us with a beautiful, clean fruit. Most of the time, however, we end up pulling off a piece of the strawberry along with the stem. It’s a shame. The fruit then looks squashed and is probably only good for immediate consumption. We don’t really want to serve a strawberry like that to guests. That’s another reason why it’s better to remove the stem from a strawberry in a more sophisticated way.

Photo: Radek Stepan

All you need is a simple straw and a little dexterity

That’s right. Nothing else is really needed. Simply place the strawberry on its stem side, or hold it in your hand and insert the straw into the strawberry from the opposite side. You can then easily push the stem out along with a small piece of flesh. The strawberry will have a small hole, but it will be completely free of the stem and the green leaves attached to it.

It’s done very quickly

That’s right, hulling strawberries this way is as fast and gentle as it gets. As for the straw itself, it’s definitely worth using a sturdier one. Classic plastic ones are getting pretty hard to find. Paper ones aren’t ideal, since they’re relatively soft, which causes them to break. If you have metal ones at home, you’re in luck. You can also hull dozens of strawberries in just a few minutes.

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Photo: Radek Stepan