Dear Chowhounders;
I was wondering if anyone has tried to make compressed fruit without a vacuum? I read the idea is that you squeeze the from between the cells of a piece of fruit and it seems it should work with two dishes stacked with the fruit pressed between. I'm trying with some strawberries right now, we'll see what we get! I have two plates with strawberries between and a jug of water on top. I also added a bit of sugar to macerate it compressing does nothing ;)
thanks for comments!
Karen.
I'm trying to figure this out... what you tried was to apply pressure... which is sort of the opposite of applying a vacuum. Pressure smashes stuff together while a vacuum cases stuff to expand.
Along the lines of pressure, instead of two plates and a jug of water. I would use a bag of rice or a bag of beans so the pressure is applied uniformly. On top of that I would use a bag full of water.
Or... just use a bag full of water using a big roasting bag. A gallon of water is around 8 1/3 lbs.
Place the fruit in in a ziplock. Place that in a baking dish and add the bag of water on top.
I've never tried this but seems like it would work to compress the fruit.
Edit... Thinking of vacuum... you put your strawberries in a ziploc and try using a hand vacuum with a wand attachement to pull a vacuum. I haven't tried this.
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