How to Juice Cherries Using a Steam Juicer
With the use of a steam juicer, juicing cherries is easy, quick, and clean, giving you pure cherry juice.
Equipment
- 1 Steam Juicer
Ingredients
- Cherries
- Water
Instructions
- Wash and drain cherries. No need to de-stem or de-pit them. Remove any cherries that have blemishes or are damaged.
- Set up the steam juicer as per the instructions that came with your juicer. If you don't have instructions, fill the bottom pot with water till nearly full, then place the juice collector pot on top, and then the colander pot on top.
- Fill the colander pot with cherries and cover with the lid.
- Turn on stove to high until the water in the bottom pot is boiling, then reduce heat to medium and keep water simmering.
- Let simmer for approximately an hour, until cherries have been juiced.
- Turn off the stove and remove the pot from heat. Being careful since things are hot, release the lamp and drain cherry juice into jars or other storage containers. Cherry remnants may be composted or discarded.
- Juice can be used immediately in recipes that call for cherry juice. If you're planning to use or consume it in the next few days, juice can be stored in the fridge. For longer storage, juice can be frozen in mason jars or other freezer-safe containers—but leave some headspace and avoid jars with "shoulders" in case juice expands when frozen as this can shatter a jar. Juice can also be canned using a water bath canner (this site has some instructions).