ISO: Easier (faster) way to stone cherries?

[CWS4322]

I have on of those cherry "stone" removers. I still find it takes a long time (I want to do salmon with a cherry sauce). Is there an eaiser way to get the stone's out than using the stone-remover tool (rolling them under the blade of a knife like chefs do with olives?) Having not grown up where cherries could grow, I seem to have missed acquiring this skill...

Thanks.

 

[pacanis]

I have an Oxo pitter that I sometimes use for olives. I would not want to do a whole jar at one sitting, but it does work well. Just set it in and squeeze the handle.

 

[Dawgluver]

I have on of those cherry "stone" removers. I still find it takes a long time (I want to do salmon with a cherry sauce). Is there an eaiser way to get the stone's out than using the stone-remover tool (rolling them under the blade of a knife like chefs do with olives?) Having not grown up where cherries could grow, I seem to have missed acquiring this skill...

Thanks.

I got a contraption from Chef's Choice catalogue. Called Leifheit Cherrymat. It has a hopper where you can put a bunch of cherries in, squish the handle, and out pops pitted cherries. Worked pretty slick, though I did have to check it occasionally as it could forget a pit once and awhille.

 

[chopper]

I got a contraption from Chef's Choice catalogue. Called Leifheit Cherrymat. It has a hopper where you can put a bunch of cherries in, squish the handle, and out pops pitted cherries. Worked pretty slick, though I did have to check it occasionally as it could forget a pit once and awhille.

We had one like this (held lots of cherries in a sort of hopper and the all fed through. It always left a pit to end up in Dad's piece of pie! He used to get so mad! Later when Mom and Dad were a lot older, they picked a bunch of cherries and couldn't find the "pitter" so Mom got out a bobby pin. It worked like a charm, and you guessed it, no pit in the pie!

 

[PrincessFiona60]

We had one like this (held lots of cherries in a sort of hopper and the all fed through. It always left a pit to end up in Dad's piece of pie! He used to get so mad! Later when Mom and Dad were a lot older, they picked a bunch of cherries and couldn't find the "pitter" so Mom got out a bobby pin. It worked like a charm, and you guessed it, no pit in the pie!

Why do Dads or Husbands always get the only bone or pit in any dish?

 

[sparrowgrass]

We get them too, it is just that we don't pitch a hissy about them, so it is not as . . . memorable.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

We get them too, it is just that we don't pitch a hissy about them, so it is not as . . . memorable.

Ah yes...true!

 

[chopper]

We get them too, it is just that we don't pitch a hissy about them, so it is not as . . . memorable.

That's what I was thinking! Dad complained so much that we were secretly happy when he did get the pit. Shhh

 

[PrincessFiona60]

That's what I was thinking! Dad complained so much that we were secretly happy when he did get the pit. Shhh

Dad threw such a fit once, I asked him if he wanted "it" bronzed...I was an adult when I finally got the guts to ask him.

 

[chopper]

Dad threw such a fit once, I asked him if he wanted "it" bronzed...I was an adult when I finally got the guts to ask him.

If he is anything like my dad, you had to wait until you were an adult! If I would have said something like that to my dad as a kid, I may not have lived to be an adult!

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

Just put them in my son's room. They'll be stoned in no time flat!

 

[chopper]

Just put them in my son's room. They'll be stoned in no time flat!

 

[Oldvine]

I grew up with my dad cooking. If any one complained about a cooking mishap he offered the job to any takers. I use the same method.

I forgot, his method to pit cherries was a short piece of copper tubing, slightly smaller in diameter than the cherry pit, sharpened with a file. Each pit was punched out with the tool. It took awhile to make a pie.