00:00:03life will be a hundred times easier if
00:00:05you pick a plum that’s white so you are
00:00:08looking for one that’s nice and got a
00:00:11bit of giving it’s nice it’s not
00:00:13rock-hard like a bullet like they are
00:00:15when they first come off the trees and
00:00:17bushes but one that’s got a bit of give
00:00:21that one’s nice I’m going to have that
00:00:22one have a feel around and see which
00:00:24ones you like so I’ve got a nice bit to
00:00:28give yep so loads nicer to eat when the
00:00:31nice and ripe and much easier to prep
00:00:34because there’s a stone in the middle
00:00:36that we’ve got to pull out and if
00:00:38they’re under light and they’re really
00:00:39hard it can hold on to the stone and it
00:00:41won’t give it to you and you end up
00:00:43bruising all the fruit and it goes all
00:00:45brown and mushy so also we’re going to
00:00:48learn a nice skill so the best way to
00:00:50cut a plum is you want to keep it in
00:00:53contact with the board so you’re not
00:00:55rolling around all over the place near
00:00:56your fingers and we can move the plum
00:00:59rather than the knife so if I put my
00:01:02knife in there and then I twist the plum
00:01:05I can go all the way around to where I
00:01:09was at the beginning and my knife
00:01:11doesn’t go all the way through because
00:01:12it’s it’s hit the stone in the middle
00:01:14and you can use this little crease that
00:01:17runs down the plum naturally as a
00:01:18guideline of where you’re not going to
00:01:20go so have a go at that keep your
00:01:22fingers out the way I set right down to
00:01:25the stone lets it feel it and then roll
00:01:29your plum round till you’re back to the
00:01:33beginning Bob’s your uncle that’s it put
00:01:40your knife down then you twist hello all
00:01:46you’ve got a nice one right so then you
00:01:49just want to you can if you like me I go
00:01:52straight in with my fingers and pull it
00:01:54out but if you’re a bit more demure you
00:01:56can trace around the edge of the stone
00:01:59with your knife keeping it firmly on the
00:02:02board and then you can just pull it out
00:02:04if it’s a bit tricky
00:02:09so that’s it how easy was that you
00:02:12perfect plums
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