Peel Peaches Perfectly Prompt! Cooking Hack

Why peel peaches? If you’re making a smoothy or blending peaches for fruit leather, I don’t recommend it. But if you’re making a peach cobbler, peach crisp or peach ice cream, maybe you don’t want that skin floating around! You need to peel peaches. But wait! PUT DOWN THAT KNIFE!

There’s an easier way. In this video, NaturesGuy shows you how to peel peaches quickly, easily and efficiently. Most importantly, you save all the fruit (that you’d otherwise lose if you peeled with a knife or other peeler.

Peach peel steps include:

• Pick peaches (or buy a bushel)
• Rinse them off (actually, you don’t HAVE to, but most people do)
• Bring a 8-quart (or larger) stock pot half- to three-fourths filled with water to boil. (Remember, putting a lid on the pot will bring it to boil more quickly)
• While waiting for the water to boil, put peaches in a strainer (the pots I use from Amazon or Walmart come with a strainer and lid)
• Put the peaches in boiling water, so they are totally covered, for 30 seconds to a minute (you can see the skins start to come off)
  Pull the strainer out and remove the peaches (save the boiling water for the next batch)

Now the peel peaches part:

• CAREFULLY (because it will be hot!) pull out the first peach, and peel off the skin. Sometimes I just rub the peach. The skin should peel right off. If it doesn’t you may not have put it in long enough, it wasn’t covered, OR it is too green
• Take a knife OR use your thumb/fingers to split the peach in half and pull out the pit

That’s it! You’ve peeled peaches! Throw the peach peels on the compost pile, freeze the peach pits if you want to see if they’ll grow later, and can, freeze or cook your peeled peaches. The only thing left to do now is EAT THEM! (I especially recommend freezing some until mid-winter, then making a crisp or cobbler that warms up the house and reminds you of summer.)

Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Peel Peaches Equipment

Oh, yes. Some people just pour out the boiling water, or drain the water off the peaches. I prefer to use the strainer/pot combination and save the boiled water until I’m done. I found a nice 12-quart strainer/lid/blancher/pot set at Amazon (click here)

Or this strainer/pot set at Walmart.

Enjoy!