Customer Reviews

Crank Cherry Pitter

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This product works great only if you are making pie or jam. The opening is to small to feed Bing cherries and it really smooches the cherries up. Small pie cherries would fit fine. This thing would work really GREAT if you are cooking the cherries, but if you are trying to use the cherries fresh, like for a fruit salad in my case, it just destroys the cherry too much. It didn't really seem to explain that in product description, so I was dissapointed that it didn't work for what I wanted it for, but as soon as I need to make a pie or jam, I will be happy as a clam.

This pitter won't work with cherries pits that are the size in Bing cherries. They jam the mechanism. I haven't tried it yet with other types of cherries yet.

The cherries that I am pitting are tart pie cherries.
I had borrowed a cherry pitter very similar to this one several years ago and this one works like the borrowed pitter. This pitter does not, repeat does not remove 100% of the pits but it makes it so very easy to finish the pitting job. The one point to follow is remove the stems from the cherries and they will not gather at the pit output and things will work much smoother. I am retired but the wife still works for a while longer, so I am doing this the easiest way that I can find. I am satisfied with the results.

I have borrowed these before and used them with no problems. This one doesn't work very well. Pits jam in it, really hard for kids, and difficult for adults too. Unfortunately, it was cherry season when I got it and I used it, making a return difficult. Could just be the individual item? I should have tried an exchange. Oh well.