Which is not a euphemism by the way. I'm not referring to any bodily organs or functions, male or female. I'm plain and simple going to show you how to quickly peel an actual peach.
Raise your hand if the thought of eating a peach with the skin on makes your teeth itch. 🙋♀️
Me too! The thought of sinking my teeth through that peach fuzz makes my teeth itch. Like eating a wool sweater. Or a sheep. I understand you can simply run the peach under water and rub the fuzz off, but sometimes ... a gal doesn't want to bite through the skin. Which also isn't a euphemism.
I'm sure that many, perhaps even most people, already know how to easily peel a peach, but until every living soul upon this earth knows how to peel a peach I will not rest. I'm funny like that.
Even more fun this trick for peeling a peach is the trick to pulling apart a pineapple.
How to Peel a Peach
1. Gather a Pyrex measuring cup (or any container that can withstand hot water) and a peach.
2. Drop peach into cup.
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3. Cover peach with boiling water.
4. Allow peach to sit in water 1 minute.
5. Remove peach from water with tongs. Not your bare fingers. That would be dumb. And you're not dumb, right?
6. Once the peach has cooled for a few seconds, you can pull the skin off easily.
Even if you don't like canned peaches, this technique is the one I use for making my chili sauce (which includes some peaches in it).
Good. Now that you've had that refresher we can move onto making canned peaches in the near future. They're one of my favourite things to pull out during the winter.
I eat them in a bowl with toasted nuts, honey and plain Greek yogurt. It's kind of a more refined version of how I eat my strawberry jam.
Alright, now get yourself some mason jars and rims so you're ready to make canned peaches in the near future.
Colleen Lawrason
That's a lit of kettle boiling. I used this method for years, but recently I discovered that if I heat a pit of water beside the sink on a hot plate,I can dip 4-5 oeaches at a time, scooping them out with a spider tool after the 30 sec to a minute. I have a bowl of ice water in the sink to cool them quickly. I can peel a peck of peaches quite quickly. It only took me 30 years to figure this out. And, saved many burned fingers.
Linda in Illinois
Love peaches. Hate the fuzzy skin. Great advise.
Patti _is_knittinginflashes
Great timing! The local Peach Festival is this weekend. I ❤️ peaches. 🍑
Rocky
What a great idea! It’s kinda like blanching tomatoes!
Thanks so much!
Sincerely
Rocky
South Carolina
Quatirze
This method works with tomatoes too!
Susan Schlub
So funny your posting came up today on peaches. I've been using canned peached in my cottage cheese for about a week now. I don't bother with produce peaches and nectarines any more. They are just too rock hard and I hardly ever get them to ripen or taste good and I'm tired of throwing away money on them. What is sad is I can remember the last great peach I EVER had: September, 1982 in Katoomba, Australia from a sidewalk vendor. I could cry. I am just disgusted by the type of produce we have come here in the US. I'm starting to think it is a scam. Enjoy your email...thanks, susan
gpfnancy
I am crying for you too, Susan. Here in Michigan, we get peaches from Georgia, South Carolina (THE best), and later in the summer, from Michigan. I just read yesterday that a nectarine is the same as a peach--with no fuzz! Can't remember source, but they sure taste the same to me. Peaches are my favorite fruit, so a peach/nectarine never makes it to the peeling stage.
Dave
I was lucky and grew up in the Okanagan Valley in BC, Canada - we have "free stone" peaches, which are also really easy to peel.
I appreciate this post though, as I have since moved and the peaches here are not quite as accommodating. (I also came here to figure out the proportions for DIY foaming hand soap)
Karen
Hi Dave! I don't know where you are now, but here where I am in Ontario we have freestones they just come out later in the season. I'm just about to make a batch of Frasier Fir foaming hand soap for December. :). I add the essential oil to an unscented liquid soap when I mix in the water. ~ karen!
Tammy
I never even considered that there are situations that call for peeled peaches, but now I'll be prepared.
I also go here through the soap thing.
Diane
I also didn't know how to peel a peach. I came from you DIY foam soap page. Thanks for the info. But this makes me wonder, as with making boiled eggs easier to peel, could you put them in an ice bath to cool the peach enough to handle? Or will that negate the skin coming off? I will test this, as I have 2 peaches right now.
Melanie
I came from the handsoap thing too. I just bought a super cute dispenser & it actually has fill lines for the soap & water but I wasn't sure if it just meant regular handsoap. I'm glad to know that it does. I too did not know how to peel a peach!! I usually don't eat them because I hate the way the skin feels on my teeth. I always opt for nectarines. I like firm, under-ripened fruit so I'm wondering does the hot water make the peach mushy at all? Guess I'll hafta try it out & see!! Thanks so much for your tips :)
Diane
Melanie, where did you get your soap dispensers with the fill lines? I'm looking for those.
Katie
I, too, just came from the foaming soap link (4/10/2020) and apparently I do know how to peel a peach, but I wasn't 100% sure if they way I was doing it was right...Sometimes they are really stubborn! And I thought you might have some better ideas. I also get crabby with eating peaches - I just have a hard time biting into something furry. I usually get nectarines for this reason. Thank you for making me feel smart (I already knew the peach-thing) and not so dumb - I don't make foaming soap, but I do dilute our dish soap (about 1:3) for use as hand-soap at the sink...it's easy and cheap, and I don't like the smell of most of the liquid soaps out there.
Alison
Came from your foaming hand wash post! And no, I didn’t know how to peel a peach.
Karen
Oh good! Then you learned a little something, lol. :) ~ karen!
Gayle M
Beautiful--I love how the peach takes on a blush from the skin, too. My MIL showed me how to peep a peach when she bought 2 bushels of peaches to can. After spreading the peaches out--2 inches apart each way--oon newspaper in her basement cuz she'd have no place to sit if she used her livingroom for this, and she would let them ripen a bit more. Then on canning day, she gathered them all up to bringto the kitchen. Note: I took a day of work off for this. Then she showed me how to stand over the skink to peel a peach, with 3 bowls: one to catch the juice dripping for the syrup, one for the skins to compost, and one for the pits to toss. I got to peel one, just one peach, in 10 hours of marathon peeling cuz they were so ripe they'd spoil. She didn't like the way I did it--not perfectly enough for her. Then, 10 yrs later my new SIL asked how MIL ever got all her canning done by herself, oh my! Response, in front of me, "Well, I didn't have any good help until now." Yeah. She's not fond of me... Got a book and taught myself to can. If you can read, you can do anything.
Karen
True. ~ karen!
SH
How to "peep a peach" is the cutest typo ever! I think that's how you should now refer to the process you've developed for peeling them.😊
whitequeen96
OMG, I've come back to this nearly 4 years after it was written and your comments about "not a euphemism" clicked in my brain. Now, I suddenly realize what the 1972 Allman Brothers album, "Eat A Peach" refers to! And I confirmed it on Snopes.com!
So I learned 2 things here! Thanks, Karen!
Lynn (really spelled w/ an "e", but somebody else already has that spelling on here)
Born and raised in GA, the peach capital of the universe (perhaps a slight exaggeration) and I did not know how to peel a peach. Good to know and thanks for the info!
kristin Cast
Well, I didn't know how to peel a peach I am so glad you posted this! Thank you!
Karen
Excellent! And you're welcome. :) ~ karen!