A friend bought a home with a huge set of prickly pair trees and let me
pick about 30 pounds of fruit https://i.postimg.cc/j596q0BW/pricklypear.jpg
How do you most easiest get the spines off of them?
In the store, they don't have spines.
These DEFINITELY have spines. Lots.
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
A friend bought a home with a huge set of prickly pair trees and let me
pick about 30 pounds of fruit https://i.postimg.cc/j596q0BW/pricklypear.jpg
How do you most easiest get the spines off of them?
In the store, they don't have spines.
These DEFINITELY have spines. Lots.
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
On 11/22/2023 9:39 PM, Andrew wrote:
A friend bought a home with a huge set of prickly pair trees and let me
pick about 30 pounds of fruit https://i.postimg.cc/j596q0BW/pricklypear.jpg >>
How do you most easiest get the spines off of them?
In the store, they don't have spines.
These DEFINITELY have spines. Lots.
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
I have not done it myself. This is my thought experiment:
I suggest you put a pile of them in a steel wok and use a blowtorch on
high to briefly singe the fine hairy pricks. Use a steel spatula to turn
the pile of prickly pears and then use the blowtorch to singe the pile
again.
I think if you singe the sharp tips of the pricks then the pricks won't
be able to pierce your skin.
You can use a blowtorch to singe just one fruit to see if it works
before you try to singe a big pile of them in a wok (or a cheap steel
bowl from a dollar store).
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:31:39 -0500, ? Mighty Wannabe
? <@.> wrote:
On 11/22/2023 9:39 PM, Andrew wrote:
A friend bought a home with a huge set of prickly pair trees and let me
pick about 30 pounds of fruit https://i.postimg.cc/j596q0BW/pricklypear.jpg >>>
How do you most easiest get the spines off of them?
In the store, they don't have spines.
These DEFINITELY have spines. Lots.
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
I have not done it myself. This is my thought experiment:
I suggest you put a pile of them in a steel wok and use a blowtorch on
high to briefly singe the fine hairy pricks. Use a steel spatula to turn
the pile of prickly pears and then use the blowtorch to singe the pile
again.
I think if you singe the sharp tips of the pricks then the pricks won't
be able to pierce your skin.
You can use a blowtorch to singe just one fruit to see if it works
before you try to singe a big pile of them in a wok (or a cheap steel
bowl from a dollar store).
Good idea to do one first. I have the feeling this method might impart
a propane taste to the fruit, although maybe not inside.
By blowtorch, I assume you mean a propane torch, now a real blowtorch. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1185126001/vintage-brass-blow-torch-antique
Everyone seems to think it's okay to call a propane torch a blowtorch,
these days.
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:39:51 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
Leather gloves. Rib them off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKFHePTS0RI
He uses a paper towel which seems redundant.
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:31:39 -0500, ? Mighty Wannabe
? <@.> wrote:
On 11/22/2023 9:39 PM, Andrew wrote:Good idea to do one first. I have the feeling this method might impart
A friend bought a home with a huge set of prickly pair trees and let me
pick about 30 pounds of fruit https://i.postimg.cc/j596q0BW/pricklypear.jpg >>>
How do you most easiest get the spines off of them?
In the store, they don't have spines.
These DEFINITELY have spines. Lots.
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
I have not done it myself. This is my thought experiment:
I suggest you put a pile of them in a steel wok and use a blowtorch on
high to briefly singe the fine hairy pricks. Use a steel spatula to turn
the pile of prickly pears and then use the blowtorch to singe the pile
again.
I think if you singe the sharp tips of the pricks then the pricks won't
be able to pierce your skin.
You can use a blowtorch to singe just one fruit to see if it works
before you try to singe a big pile of them in a wok (or a cheap steel
bowl from a dollar store).
a propane taste to the fruit, although maybe not inside.
By blowtorch, I assume you mean a propane torch, now a real blowtorch. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1185126001/vintage-brass-blow-torch-antique
Everyone seems to think it's okay to call a propane torch a blowtorch,
these days.
On 11/22/2023 6:39 PM, Andrew wrote:
A friend bought a home with a huge set of prickly pair trees and let me
pick about 30 pounds of fruit https://i.postimg.cc/j596q0BW/pricklypear.jpg >>
How do you most easiest get the spines off of them?
In the store, they don't have spines.
These DEFINITELY have spines. Lots.
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
I have heard of singing. With long tongs or a BBQ fork, hold the cactus
pear over a flame.
On 11/23/2023 12:52 AM, micky wrote:
Everyone seems to think it's okay to call a propane torch a blowtorch,
these days.
https://www.google.com/search?q=blowtorch&tbm=isch
A "blowtorch" is a generic term for that kind of torch. The fuel can be
the traditional kerosene, or the modern butane, propane, MAPP gas, oxy-hydrogen, ...
He uses a paper towel which seems redundant.
It will be tedious rubbing 30 lbs of prickly pears one by one.
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
I have heard of singing. With long tongs or a BBQ fork, hold the cactus
pear over a flame.
I sang to some for an hour, and even that didn't scare the spines off them.
You can use a blowtorch to singe just one fruit to see if it works
before you try to singe a big pile of them in a wok (or a cheap steel
bowl from a dollar store).
A "blowtorch" is a generic term for that kind of torch. The fuel can be
the traditional kerosene, or the modern butane, propane, MAPP gas, oxy-hydrogen, ...
On 11/23/2023 1:30 AM, rbowman wrote:
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:39:51 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?
Leather gloves. Rib them off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKFHePTS0RI
He uses a paper towel which seems redundant.
It will be tedious rubbing 30 lbs of prickly pears one by one.
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:57:57 -0500, π Mighty Wannabe β wrote:
On 11/23/2023 1:30 AM, rbowman wrote:Then take them to a laundromat where you're not known, put them in a
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:39:51 -0000 (UTC), Andrew wrote:
What's the trick to removing the spines before peeling the skin off?Leather gloves. Rib them off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKFHePTS0RI
He uses a paper towel which seems redundant.
It will be tedious rubbing 30 lbs of prickly pears one by one.
dryer, and give them 10 minutes on the low setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UiC-1Sjrm0
A commercial tuna operation probably uses something similar to the potato peeler. I've used on of those in the service. The old cartoon of GIs
sitting around peeling potatoes by hand aren't accurate. We did crack eggs
by hand. You get good after a fwe hundred dozen.
ΓΒ Β½ΓΒΈΕ½ Mighty Wannabe Γ’Εβ¦ wrote on Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:31:39 -0500 :
You can use a blowtorch to singe just one fruit to see if it worksI removed the burner cover to the stove and singed them over the huge flame that shot up unexpectedly out of the middle hole of the oven burner.
before you try to singe a big pile of them in a wok (or a cheap steel
bowl from a dollar store).
I cut off each end, and sliced a line down the middle about skin deep.
Then with my hands I peeled the skin back which leaves a center portion.
That's all for the party so the only thing I get to keep is the compost. https://i.postimg.cc/RF9Q4Kmn/prickly-pear-skin-compost.jpg
Layers of... Browns : Greens : Reds : Browns : Greens : Reds : (and so on)
After cutting it in halves, you can hold a half in your palm, and use a
spoon of appropriate size to scoop out the soft core instead of peeling
the skin. I eat kiwifruit that way, with a spoon. After I have scooped
out the soft meat of a kiwifruit with a spoon in one shot, all that's
left is the paper thin kiwifruit skin in my palm. It beats trying to
peel the kiwifruit because peeling will tear the kiwifruit skin into
many, many strips.
If you are a reloader, you might already have a rotary separator, thendp/B01B6S8JUC
you don't have to sneak into a laundromat to tumble a 30-lb bag of
prickly pears
Frankford Arsenal Platinum Series Wet/Dry Media Separator with
Perforated Sifter and Mesh Media Strainer for Reloading https://www.amazon.com/Frankford-Arsenal-Separator-Perforated-Reloading/
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