Coring strawberries

[scarey55]

As the strawberry glut is soon upon us (hopefully) I have found a great way to core strawberries using a drinking straw. Some of you may already know but I have tried it today and feel quite evangelistic about it:

Poke a drinking straw in the middle of the strawberry from the bottom to the top and voila! out comes the straw with the top leaves and the core - peasy

[Jay22]

Going to give that a try scarey!

[Alison]

But the core only goes part way down - doesn't this waste the bottom part of the strawberry which isn't core at all? I just flick them out with my thumb nail although I think that this is easier with some varieties than others.

[scarey55]

It's only a tiny bit of waste Alison and if, like me, you have no nails it is much easier than taking a knife to it

[chefgage]

Going to try this as i always seem to waste a bit chopping the top off

[cristalfiona]

Great tip, but my strawberries are just going to end up eaten off the plant so I'll just eat them all minus the green bits!