top & tail gooseberries - easy

taurusgb

If you want an easy way to top and tail gooseberries use a strawberry huller - it's so quick and easy to just pull off the stalk and tail without mangling the fruit.... took me 5 minutes today to deal with a huge punnet of them......dunno why I didn't think of trying it before.

hev_2

I use scissors.

Works great. Can use scissors for other things

(hate migraine)

davholla

taurusgb wrote: »

If you want an easy way to top and tail gooseberries use a strawberry huller - it's so quick and easy to just pull off the stalk and tail without mangling the fruit.... took me 5 minutes today to deal with a huge punnet of them......dunno why I didn't think of trying it before.

Are they already in the shops ?

recovering_spendaholic

taurusgb wrote: »

If you want an easy way to top and tail gooseberries use a strawberry huller - it's so quick and easy to just pull off the stalk and tail without mangling the fruit.... took me 5 minutes today to deal with a huge punnet of them......dunno why I didn't think of trying it before.

Where do you get a strawberry huller? I love gooseberries but am put off because of the faffing around you have to do with them.

Enterprise_1701C

Who cares - gooseberries straight off the sun kissed bush in my garden, they are so sweet now they've ripened! I think I shall be heading out there very shortly now the rain has stopped.

Really not worth bothering with topping and tailing though! I normally just eat them as they are, and if you freeze them the flower end comes off when you wash them anyway!

bellett

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

Who cares - gooseberries straight off the sun kissed bush in my garden, they are so sweet now they've ripened! I think I shall be heading out there very shortly now the rain has stopped.

Really not worth bothering with topping and tailing though! I normally just eat them as they are, and if you freeze them the flower end comes off when you wash them anyway!

Think the OP was just trying to help!

ubamother

my mum swears by her strawberry huller for gooseberries, strawberries and for getting little bones out of raw fish - Lakeland £1.40

Enterprise_1701C

bellett wrote: »

Think the OP was just trying to help!

Wasn't trying to be off with the OP (sorry if it sounded that way) - just that I never actually top & tail gooseberries, just rub off the top when I get them out of the freezer to cook them!

kippers

I made gooseberry jam last year with green gooseberries from my gooseberry bush. However, the jam was so so sweet.

Has anyone got a really nice gooseberry jam recipe that they can recommend?

billieboy_2

kippers wrote: »

I made gooseberry jam last year with green gooseberries from my gooseberry bush. However, the jam was so so sweet.

Has anyone got a really nice gooseberry jam recipe that they can recommend?

I've just found this thread when I was looking for a recipe!:j
I've just realised this is probably the recipe you used!!!!!!!!!!!:o :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Maybe I won't bother if it was too sweet!

she_grinch

I have got gooseberries in my garden and - silly question - how do I know when they are ripe?