Have you ever crunched your teeth on a unwanted pit while enjoying a piece of a cherry pie? Or worse, have you ever tried to remove a pit from a cherry with only a knife and your fingers.
Your fingers look bloodied without so much as a scratch and the cherry looks like it’s been massacred. It’s neither aesthetically pleasing nor appetizing.
Enter the cherry pitter.
Slide a cherry in. Squeeze the handles together and presto: one edible cherry, two clean hands and one disposable pit.
It’s so simple, my four-year-old can do it.
Again and again and again.
What doesn’t work for me is having my camera switched from automatic focus to manual focus.
Again, so simple a four-year-old can do it.
(Edited to add: I bought my cherry pitter at Crate & Barrel. It’s very simple and works great. The OXO one pictured has great reviews and is available through Amazon).
WHERE did you get that? I’ve been looking for one for two years!
BTW, the link on the WFM page is wrong–it goes to a post about aprons instead of this one…
[…] 15, 2008 by Rachel Oops! If you are coming for the WFMW post about Cherry Pitters, click here. If you are interested in Aprons, well then read […]
I love cherries, but can’t stand the mess. I’ve looked everywhere for a cherry pitter and now I know where to go. Crate & Barrel is where I will have to go tomorrow.
I absolutely love cherries, and absolutely detest having to spit out the pit into my spatoon, I mean trashcan, at work. This is a great way for me to remove the pit and simply enjoy cherries in all of their deliciousness. Thank you for sharing!
Aren’t they the coolest?
I now have tons of frozen cherries…all with the help of the pitter. I am smitten.