Pears are extremely healthy. Many vitamins and trace elements are located directly under the skin, one reason why pears should not be peeled before consumption. If you prefer to eat fruit in liquid form, you can make your own pear juice without much effort. But here, too, the shell should stay on as much as possible.

A juicer is ideal for cold juicing

Make your own pear juice

Domestic pears ripen between August and September, but imported goods are commercially available all year round. If there are a lot of ripe pears in the garden, you can turn the delicious fruit into juice with the steam juicer and preserve it in sterile bottles for a longer period of time.

Pear juice with the steam juicer

  1. Wash the pears and remove any stains or bruises.
  2. Quarter the pears.
  3. As soon as the water in the juicer boils, the pot with the fruit is placed on it. It takes at least an hour, possibly longer, for juice to collect in the drain hose.
  4. During this time you can prepare the bottles for bottling.
  5. As soon as a good juice yield is achieved, the hot juice is filled into sterile bottles and sealed airtight immediately.

Pear juice from the saucepan

If you don't have a steam juicer, you can juice hot in a large saucepan.

  1. Wash the pears thoroughly, remove the damaged areas and cut them into small pieces.
  2. Put the fruit in the pot and pour in water (about 20% of the amount of fruit).
  3. Cover the pot and cook the pears until smooth, about 20 minutes.
  4. Let the mush cool down and then squeeze out the juice in portions through a cloth.
  5. Sweeten the juice to taste, boil it again and then fill it in sterile bottles.

Juice the pears cold

Cold-juiced fruit retains its vitamins and nutrients, but doesn't keep for long in the fridge either.
If you own an electric juicer, you should therefore make small amounts of juice more often. To do this, the cleaned fruit is crushed and squeezed out in the device by centrifuging. Juice and pomace are collected in two different containers.

You can also juice cold using a hand blender.

  1. Chop the cleaned fruit and put it in a tall container.
  2. Blend it with the stick blender.
  3. Put the mush in portions in a fine cloth and squeeze out the juice manually.

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