Customer Reviews

Leifheit Leifheit Pro Pro-Line Cherry Pitter

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4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

A great little pitter at at great little price! Does its job quickly and well. Cleans up in seconds.

the pin is not properly secured to the body of the pitter. after a few uses it will pop off. i've gone through three of these pitters from my local linens 'n things. how could the designers be so inept?

As others have commented, very poor workmanship. The first pitter I had lost the pin on its third pitting round. Hammered it back in but didn't last. The next season I needed one quickly but couldn't find a different one, so bought it again. The pin was lost during the first use. I have no idea why all local stores seem to carry just this pitter.

I agree with james--the metal pin comes detached from the pitter and it will stick in a cherry every two or three times you pit one. And there is no food-grade metal glue available to fix the problem, to our knowledge. Try another product!

Unlike some of the other reviewers, I got a good 2 years out of the product before the pin came unattached. It worked great, for a while!

For a replacement, though, I went with the Dalla Piazza Cherry/Olive Pitter. Works just as well. It's basically the same design, but I'm optimistic that it might last longer.

Like the other reviewers, the pin on my pitter snapped off. I would NOT recommend this product. Don't buy this one....so far the Good Grips one is working well for me.

For what appears to be an attractive and heavy duty cherry pitter this has really turned out to be a worthless piece of...shiny metal.

Imagine staring at 9lbs of cherries with this pitter in hand. At first you are pleased with the instrument since this pitter actually does do a good job and makes fast work of the cherries. Just as soon as you get into a rhythm suddenly it all goes horribly wrong. The spike that pushes the cherry pit out is no longer attached to the pitter, but is instead nestled securely in the cherry sitting in the bottom of your pit bowl.

After two of these (returned the first to the store) and after going through various glues and other methods I have given up on firmly securely the spike where it can do the most good. Honestly, it turns out that after the last aborted pitting effort (and third brand/type of glue) I forgot to take the escapee spike out of the bowl and ended up tossing it out with the pits. That's obviously where it wanted to be anyway and good riddance to it.

It's a gorgeous instrument that works terrifically...until it falls apart.

It falls apart a lot.

Save your money and patience and pass on this one.

I'm looking for a new olive/cherry pitter because mine has suffered the same fate as others mentioned here - the pin keeps falling out. I'm giving 2 stars rather than 1 because I've used it for a couple of years and all was fine until a few months ago. I've tried hammering the pin back in many times and it just shoots out again or gets stuck in the fruit. Feels nice and solid when new but I expected a metal tool to have a longer life.

Not much to say, works adequately until the pin falls out. Our first one broke in the second cherry season (we eat moderate amounts and pit fewer than that). The second one (received as a gift) didn't even make it through the first season. Amazing that they keep making these things without fixing the obvious flaw.

I've been through two of these. Feels great in the hand, and construction appears to be solid, right up to when the plunger pops out of the body (on both of mine). Looks like there was a retaining pin there at some point, but by the time the plunger came out with the cherry pit, the pin was nowhere to be found. I just ordered an Oxo pitter; similar design; will see if it's better built. Come on Leifheit, you had to know about that--how about a drop of epoxy or a retaining clip of some sort?!