Hello! I’ve discovered there are sour cherry trees in several city parks in Minneapolis 🍒🍒. We have such amazing green spaces❤️. I used a metal straw, it worked well.
Use an old fashioned vegetable peeler. I put cherry in left hand and hold peeler like a paring knife in right hand. Insert peeler, scoop out pit. The vegetable peeler is much easier to hold on to than a paper clip. Once you get the hang of it, you can pit a lot of cherries quickly. We put a plastic table cloth over the table, and everyone sits around pitting cherries!
I have used this one for years on tart cherries. Can do a quart (washed and stemmed) in a few minutes. Its terrific. Leifheit Cherry Pitter - made in Germany and I just checked to see that it is still available online. Amazon sells for about $30
Sorry, but there are no cherry potters that I or my friends are aware of that work well for sour cherries. I d use the Oxo single cherry pitter but a chop stick works just as well if not better.
We too had a bumper crop of sour cherries this year. (Eastern Ontario)So as per usual we shared lots with the birds. I use a small hand pitter it works great. Made scones, and pie and hope to make some jam.🤤
I have a morello tree, so LOADS of cherries. After many years of trying all the DIY options, unsatisfactorily, I got an OXO cherry pitter and never looked back. Yes, sour cherries can be much smaller than eating cherries, so it is a challenge even using my fav pitter but still less mess and faster - if you have plenty, ilosing a bit is the cost of not spending hours doing this. NOTE: wear black or unloved clothes, keep a mopping cloth handy, and do it outside- cherry juice stains and gets everywhere.
About 65 years ago, my grandfather showed me how to use a woman's hairpin (Bobby pin) pried partly open into a V-shape.
BRILLIANT! I have an entire sleeve of them! ♥️
I stick a hairpin into a wine cork and use the cork as a handle. Works great.
Great idea!!! ♥️🍒
Not a Bobby pin, a hairpin which is wider.
Ruth Reichel just shared about using a paperclip! You just open it up and poke.
LOVE!!! And cheap! ♥️🍒
Jacques Pepin uses a paper clip.
Of course he does! ♥️🙌🏽😂
A plastic straw (grab an extra at Starbucks) works great. And I’d wear gloves!
Awesome!!! Wil try! 🍒
Hello! I’ve discovered there are sour cherry trees in several city parks in Minneapolis 🍒🍒. We have such amazing green spaces❤️. I used a metal straw, it worked well.
There sure are and in some parks plum trees are next to ripen. ♥️
Use an old fashioned vegetable peeler. I put cherry in left hand and hold peeler like a paring knife in right hand. Insert peeler, scoop out pit. The vegetable peeler is much easier to hold on to than a paper clip. Once you get the hang of it, you can pit a lot of cherries quickly. We put a plastic table cloth over the table, and everyone sits around pitting cherries!
I have watched Erin McDowell pop the pits out of sour cherries just by squeezing them out.
I have a leifheit. Works well! The place I pick near the twin cities (Knapton’s) has a pitted at the farm for a $10.00 fee…so I do that now!
I have used this one for years on tart cherries. Can do a quart (washed and stemmed) in a few minutes. Its terrific. Leifheit Cherry Pitter - made in Germany and I just checked to see that it is still available online. Amazon sells for about $30
I use the tip of a metal chopstick. Works very well and fast.
Sorry, but there are no cherry potters that I or my friends are aware of that work well for sour cherries. I d use the Oxo single cherry pitter but a chop stick works just as well if not better.
I've used the Westmark Kernex for sour cherries for years. It works great!
Someone told me recently that they use a chopstick, I think he said over a bottle. I hope to get some cherries in the morning and give it a try
Hello Zoe,
We too had a bumper crop of sour cherries this year. (Eastern Ontario)So as per usual we shared lots with the birds. I use a small hand pitter it works great. Made scones, and pie and hope to make some jam.🤤
I have a morello tree, so LOADS of cherries. After many years of trying all the DIY options, unsatisfactorily, I got an OXO cherry pitter and never looked back. Yes, sour cherries can be much smaller than eating cherries, so it is a challenge even using my fav pitter but still less mess and faster - if you have plenty, ilosing a bit is the cost of not spending hours doing this. NOTE: wear black or unloved clothes, keep a mopping cloth handy, and do it outside- cherry juice stains and gets everywhere.
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