For research purposes, this is the pits from 1kg of cherries. (Not gonna weigh anything else, we're just gonna eat it. 😂) I plan to dry and clean all the pits before baking the shit out of them.
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Hm. Does the heat take care of the cyanide? I've heard that's how you get to eat apricot pits, but never actually tried doing it.
aug 31, 2025, 12:57 am • 1 0 • view
Apparently so! It's how people deal with it to use ground cherry pits as a spice, so I'm told.
sep 6, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view
What would peach or nectarine pits do, or are they too soft?
aug 30, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
No, you can make peach black pigment (or buy it from Kremer.)
aug 30, 2025, 7:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Thanks. Now I need to make a pizza oven.😉
aug 30, 2025, 7:45 pm • 1 0 • view
So tonight we tightly wrapped up our fruit pits, and also made pizza. Things I learned: 1. It takes a long time to carbonise cherry pits, even at 450⁰C, but on the plus side they mostly didn't catch fire! 2. Nobody who doesn't like really a lot of garlic should ever eat me and Kitty's pizzas...
sep 6, 2025, 9:26 pm • 15 0 • view
Mmm garlicked breb
sep 6, 2025, 9:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Garlic all the things. (Except cake.)
sep 6, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 0 • view
(I mean if you don't like garlic you should prob never eat anything I cook except spicy fruit porridge or Parkin.) Anyway… The idea with making pigment from fruit pits is to cremate them without them catching fire. So that you get black stuff, not grey ash. I'll report back when it's all cooled.
sep 6, 2025, 9:32 pm • 12 0 • view
Good morning from me and my carbonised pits. Well, some of the pits are carbonised. Some clearly needed longer. Handily for me the less cremated pits don't grind up well so they're easy to pick out. The bigger pits are in no way ready, so live and learn... Will just use cherries from now on.
sep 7, 2025, 11:13 am • 12 1 • view
I didn't use all the pits, so I can have another go. But will see how the fully carbonised pit pigment works first. Kremer describes cherry black as being a brownish black, vs peach black (just black) and grapeseed black (bluish black.) Can't wait to see what ours looks like!
sep 7, 2025, 11:17 am • 9 0 • view
The carbonised pits break up very easily, the not-done pits stay as big fragments. So I ground things a bit in a big pestle and mortar then sieved out this fine powder into a small one. The colour reminds me of Cassel earth PBr7, and the texture is a bit like charcoal powder - very light.
sep 7, 2025, 11:38 am • 20 0 • view
I am loving this so much!!! (Also pro fruit eating)
sep 7, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Well this pigment surprised me in a bunch of different ways! I did not expect it to be so clumpy/flocculant, I ended up mulling it in small parts like I would a shale or synthetic pigments. & I didn't expect the end result to be so viscous. I took some video too, but first I need to lie TF down...
sep 7, 2025, 1:39 pm • 23 0 • view
This pigment slorped up the binder so fast, like what the entire fuck, OMFGs. 😂
sep 7, 2025, 2:22 pm • 14 0 • view
At some point I'd added enough binder to be able to pick out a few larger bits that had escaped the sieve. (Note to self, buy a new sieve, and sieve more times.) Clumps of pigment can be smooshed out with the paint knife, solid lumps can't. So it's easy to tell the difference.
sep 7, 2025, 3:02 pm • 9 0 • view
Have to tell you I do love your creative vocabulary includes "slorp" and "smoosh"
sep 7, 2025, 3:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, there's probably a technical term for these things but I don't know what! I just hope folks can get what I'm talking about. 😂
sep 7, 2025, 5:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Hilarious to me that I recorded my WTF moment when I realised it was still thick enough to lift the plate up from the silicone mat. 😂 This was when I stopped recording, swore a lot, then decided to mull it in parts.
sep 7, 2025, 5:21 pm • 6 0 • view
Forbidden chocolate ganache
sep 7, 2025, 3:54 pm • 2 0 • view
😂
sep 7, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I love your adventures. It makes me want to try because omg that's cool and avoid it because omg that looks like a lot of work.
sep 7, 2025, 2:30 pm • 2 0 • view
It is a lot of work. But I also love it. 🤷 🙃 😂
sep 7, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
This is so cool! Thank you for the detailed progress updates
sep 7, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 0 • view
You're welcome, I'm glad you're enjoying my ramblings! 😁
sep 7, 2025, 2:18 pm • 1 0 • view