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The Best Cherry Pitters

dmcmahan | Jun 9, 2010 |

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A sure sign summer has arrived are all the bright red cherries just waiting to be picked, that is if the birds don't get them first. Picking cherries can be fun and relaxing if you love being outdoors and love fresh picked fruit. The only bad thing about picking cherries is that they need to be pitted and pitting cherries is the pits. When done by hand it is very messy and time consuming, some would say not worth the hassle. Others live for this type of thing but have learned to speed up the process by using tools known as cherry pitters or cherry stoners.

Types of Cherry Pitters

Cherry pitters are a device that holds a cherry and plunges a pin or rod through the cherry pushing out the pit. There are many different designs of cherry pitters available, some are hand held and only process one cherry at a time others are more complex processing multiple cherries at once. The following will describe five of the more popular designs of cherry pitters, starting with the easiest and least expensive and available online at Amazon.com and Bed, Bath, and Beyond or in retail stores like Wal-mart and Target.

The first is the Oxo Good Grips Cherry Pitter this simple design allows the user to load one cherry at a time and manually squeeze the pit from the cherry and a splatter shield helps control the mess. Probably not what you would want if you have a lot of cherries to pit but nice for low volume use. At a cost of around twelve dollars this is one of the better cherry pitters for the occasional user.

The next pitter is the Progressive Cherry-It Multiple Cherry Pitter. The Cherry-It will pit four cherries at once and collects the pits and juice mess in a built in dish washer safe container. Also around twelve dollars this cherry pitter might be a better deal and cleaner too.

If you have kids and let them help cooking this might be the best choice of all the cherry pitters talked about here. The Talisman Designs Cherry Chomper Cherry Pitter is shaped like a little man and you feed the cherry into his mouth and push down on his head to pit the cherry. 100% mess free with a protective guard for the plunger makes it kid friendly and is also dish washer safe, a rare chance to have fun with the kids and get things done at the same time. And better yet it is only ten dollars.

The next two cherry pitters are a better choice for the serious cherry buff. The Leifheit Cherrymat Cherry Stoner with container can hold 15 cherries in its holder funnel and is able to process up to 25lbs of cherries an hour dropping the pit in the lower container and the cherry in a bowl. This pitter is priced around thirty dollars and comes with or without the extra bowl. Sure to make your cherry pitting experience fast and easy. The last of the cherry pitters discussed here is more of a commercial use pitter. The TSM Products Stainless Steel Cherry Stoner is all stainless and can pit ten cherries at once but all that speed comes at a hefty price of close to three hundred dollars but if you have a small orchard or just really love to pit cherries this might be right up your alley. User reviews of each of these cherry pitters can be seen at Amazon.com if you need a little more information before you decide to buy.