Cut & Weigh Fruit for Jam

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Rachel Deon for Expert Village. I rinsed the fruits under running tab water to make all the soap come off. And now we're going to cut the fruits I'm going to show you how to cut the fruits, clean them up, and get them ready for weighing. First we need to clean out the fruit from bug bites or rotten parts, you don't want them in you jam right. You should cut your fruits on the side that you like your jam some people like big chunks, some people like it very smooth. I just cut it around the peats. You have to make sure that while cutting it there's none parts no parts of the peats because sometimes the peats are broken or something and some __ parts can be put in inside. If you like strawberry jam we usually cook it whole, we just take the top part off. So what we would do with any other berries, the cherries we usually take the peat out and we leave them whole. If you like grape jelly and that we leave whole too. The kumquat which is a very good jam we will slice into circles and take the little peats out and cook into circles little circles. As I mention before the kumquat has a little bitter taste to it. While cooking peaches and apricot we cut them in half and cook them like that cause they become very soft during cooking and there's no need to do more than cutting it into half. "