How to Make Homemade Cherry Juice with a Steam Juicer

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Quick and easy tutorial on how to make Homemade Cherry Juice with a steam juicer. We love this healthy cherry juice recipe, made from real cherries, and use it all winter long. Plus, it’s a great way to use up the excess harvest!

Quick and easy tutorial on how to make homemade cherry juice with a steam juicer. We love homemade cherry juice and use it all winter long.
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I love cherries and they are great in a variety of dishes. Check these out: Homemade Cherry Crumble Recipe, Healthy Cherry Energy Balls (Homemade Cherry Pie Larabars) and Sweet Cherry Waffles

What is a Steam Juicer?

As I mentioned before we had a bumper crop of cherries this year. I dried some, made preserves and jelly with others, but still had gallons and gallons left. An easy way to use all the cherries was to juice them. There is very little work involved with steam juicing; you don’t even have to remove the pit! The juicer is totally worth the monetary investment if you own a cherry tree or grape vines. We love making homemade cherry juice and homemade grape juice with out steam juicer each year.

I first used a steam juicer a few years ago when I borrowed one from a friend to make grape juice. I’ve used hers for years and now that we’ve moved hours from her, it was time to buy one of my own.

If you’ve never seen or used one, then I’ll enlighten you. They are amazing things that are easy to use, clean, and a great way to use lots of fruit.>We bought a Victoria steam juicer for around $70 from Ace Hardware (I know IFA and other places that sell canning supplies have them). You can also buy them on Amazon. The stainless steel juicers have really come down in price and you can buy a stainless steel version for not much more. I’d get the stainless steel if you can, it’s supposed to last a lot longer and there’s some interesting reading on how the use of aluminum in cooking might affect your health. That’s my two cents, but I have used both aluminum and stainless steel and they both work great.

Here is what it looks like:

Quick and easy tutorial on how to make homemade cherry juice with a steam juicer. We love homemade cherry juice and use it all winter long.

And this explains how it works. Boiling water on the bottom comes up through a hole and then goes through lots of little holes in the basket the fruit sits in. The steam releases the juice that collects (where #3 is pointed) and it runs out a tube.

Quick and easy tutorial on how to make homemade cherry juice with a steam juicer. We love homemade cherry juice and use it all winter long.


Grandma’s Bing (red) and Queen Anne (pink) cherries ready to juice.

Quick and easy tutorial on how to make homemade cherry juice with a steam juicer. We love homemade cherry juice and use it all winter long.

Fresh hot cherry juice collecting in a pot.

Quick and easy tutorial on how to make homemade cherry juice with a steam juicer. We love homemade cherry juice and use it all winter long.

I love adding some of this cherry juice to the second ferment of my homemade kombucha too. It’s also great mixed in with some lemon-lime soda!

Check these posts out for more recipes to use those cherries up:

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Homemade Cherry Juice Recipe


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  • Author: Melissa Griffiths
  • Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins
  • Yield: 11 Quarts

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Quick and easy tutorial on how to make Homemade Cherry Juice with a steam juicer. We love this healthy cherry juice recipe, made from real cherries, and use it all winter long. Plus, it’s a great way to use up the excess harvest!


Ingredients

  • Lots of cherries, at least 1 gallon
  • Steam juicer

Instructions

  1. Wash and sort your cherries, no need to pit or remove stems. I do like to pick out the ones that are rotten and any leaves that might get mixed in.
  2. Get the steam juicer washed and set up according to instructions. Fill the hopper with your cherries. If you are using more than one type, mix them as you add them to get a more consistent juice flavor.
  3. Let them steam for an hour, making sure the bottom of the steamer doesn’t run out of water. The hopper full of cherries produces about four quarts of juice. If you have more cherries to do, throw out (compost or feed it to your chickens) the steamed cherries before doing your next batch.
  4. Process the juice in a hot water bath for 15 minutes (for quarts) for us high elevations and 10 minutes for you low-lyers.

Notes

  • Sugar can be added to the juice to make it sweeter; just do that to taste.
  • I used the juice for jelly and cherry syrup! Recipes to come.
  • This juice is so good with lemon-lime pop (just when we are splurging)
  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins
  • Category: Drinks
  • Method: Steam Juicer
  • Cuisine: American

See! It’s not hard to make Homemade Cherry Juice in your own kitchen. With a load of cherries, the right supplies, and a little time, you’ll have more than enough cherry juice to last all winter long. Nothing tastes better than opening a bottle of summer in the cold of winter!

The recipe was originally published in July 2012. It was updated, rewritten, and republished for your enjoyment in July 2017.

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