What's the fastest way to hull a strawberry?

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I often need to hull and slice large batches of strawberries. But hulling by cutting a cone out of the top of the berry with a paring knife can be slow work. How can I quickly remove the core (the hard white part near the stem) from the strawberry?

What do professional chefs and kitchens do to quickly hull strawberries?

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Best Answer

I don't usually hull strawberries, but when I do I use a straw. The idea is that you push the straw up through the tip of the strawberry and it comes out at the stem. For pictures you can see http://amy-newnostalgia.blogspot.com/2010/06/hulling-strawberries-with-straw.html are just Google "hull strawberries with a straw"



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How do you hull strawberries fast?

How to hull strawberries
  • Angle a small sharp knife and cut, in a circular motion, around the green leafy top of the strawberry and into the pale flesh directly underneath.
  • Remove the hull and discard. Wash strawberries thoroughly under cold running water before using.


    • How do you remove the hull from strawberries?

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  • Strawberry Coring Method #1: With a paring knife, pierce the berry where the stem meets the core. ...
  • Strawberry Coring Method #2: Grab the leaves with a stem extractor tool and twist.
  • Strawberry Coring Method #3: Push a plastic straw through the bottoms of strawberries until the leaves pop off.



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    Answer 2

    I always use a teaspoon to scoop out the green. Going any deeper than 5 mm is unnecessary anyway (it's only the green and the little stalk that are unpleasant), but you can go as deep as you like. It is fast and it works perfectly. You press the spoon's edge into your thumb, so to speak, with the strawberry in between. You can easily continue to hold it in the right position in your right hand while you pick up new strawberries with your left hand. When I found this out years ago, I couldn't understand why the whole world wasn't using this, just as with grating garlic. The only thing quicker than a teaspoon would be a teaspoon with thinner (= sharper) edges.

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    Answer 3

    Alton Brown recommends a star-shaped tip from a pastry piping bag. He mentioned this in the Good Eats episode on strawberries, which has tons of good info on why hulling is important and the effects of not hulling.

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    Answer 4

    Never used it, but I'm assuming these exist for a reason: enter image description here

    Answer 5

    Try using the small end of a melon baller (AKA Parisienne scoop).

    Answer 6

    All you really need to remove is the stem and leaves, so just a quick down and up cut (or a V, one cut from each side) will get it done, just wasting a little of the top of the berry on either side of the stem. I think it'll work better than using a spoon if you don't have a sharp/thin enough spoon and your berries are pretty ripe; otherwise they're roughly equivalent.

    For another dedicated gadget option, a tomato/strawberry corer/huller:

    strawberry huller

    I tried my grandmother's a couple times; it works fine, though I'm personally happy with a paring knife and a tiny bit of waste.

    Answer 7

    I just did 16# today. I use a tomato shark. Doesn't waste the berry and takes out the green leaves at the same time. Costs $1.49.

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