The Sausage Maker - Stainless Steel Deluxe Cherry Pitter - Heavy Duty Multi Pit Removal Tool - 5 at Once Capacity - Includes Catching Container

This is the best cherry pitter ever!!! I pit 5-8 cases per year (18lbs each) this pitter makes light work of it!!! I would buy it again. I freeze dry them and freeze them & also dehydrate them.

Where has this been all my life!??!?! We have two abundantly producing cherry trees. We put over 25 gallons of pie cherries in the freezer this year. I bought this machine half way through the harvest. It cut our processing time by 3/4! I couldn't be happier. Only issue was that the pitter does tear the cherries up a bit more than my single pitter. And doesn't always release the cherry. We tried the tape trick posted by another reviewer and it worked great. We're trying to figure out some type of more permanent fix so the cherries release better.

After trying a plastic hand-held pitter, which immediately broke, and then a plastic tray pitter, which also immediately broke, I bought this stainless steel pitter. Yes, it costs much, much more, and it's bulky to store, but it really does pit cherries quickly and successfully and it's fun to use, no less. I have now canned 30 lbs. of brandied Bing cherries, which would have been nearly impossible without this cherry pitter. Wear black (to prevent cherry stains) and know that juicy cherries will make quite a mess on your kitchen counter.

4 cherry trees so using my new cherry putter was great. Very easy to setup, get pitting and then cleanup. Only change I added was to use aluminum rectangle pan to catch seeds and a smaller tray for cherries that fall out while pitting. Life got much easier this season.

This is the best pitter I've ever used! I was hesitant to pick up this device but I don't regret it one bit! Pitting cherries used to be the most tedious task and I'd dread it. So far this season I've pitted about 100 lbs of cherries and I'm not tired of it yet ;)I think that there are two issues with this device, both of which are easy to overcome:1) Sometimes (rarely) the removed pits will land on the slide for the cherries, resulting in pits in you cherry bowl. I've resolved this temporarily by taping a piece of cardboard atop the slide. It separates the pits and cherries much better.2) The tray with the handle (for pits) is worthless. Swap it out for something wider that can hold the cherry juices. Maybe also create a cardboard funnel to direct the pits into it.Someone should make 3D printed fixes for these two issues ;)

I just got it and used it for the first time today, and I already have built up a strong fondness for this machine. It’s solidly built (in America!) and just does what it’s supposed to do. I imagine this machine saved us several hours of awful, tedious work as we pitted and processed the two five gallon buckets full of cherries we picked, compared to using one of those little clamshell pitters. I never write reviews, but this little guy deserved his props.

Easy assembly, easy cleaning. Works better than all the other cherry pitters I've ever tried. I used it with big sweet cherries, and it worked great. Warning: some pits will survive, but far less than with all other pitters I've used. Plan to use it next year from the very start of cherry season.

I was so excited to get this cherry pitter. I own a pie shop and when Cherries are on in the local orchards we are constantly trying to keep up with demand. That means we are pitting close to a 100lbs of cherries each week. unfortunately I am sorely disappointed. It arrived on time, and was packaged up very well. It was easy to put together and get started. I managed to do about 5lbs of cherries before the pitter prongs were ripping apart the rubber sleeve. (photo below) Then the prongs were getting stuck on the top piece and bending, so they weren't releasing the cherries. I'm sure if I spent some time customizing it, and repairing the rubber cherry holder and then adding some new washers to the handle to make sure it didn't slide out of place it would work. Thats in addition to using mine own bin to catch the pits because the current one misses half of them But to be honest it feels like a lot of work on my part for a piece of equipment that wasn't cheap. Because even when it was working in the beginning, (the first 50 cherries) I was checking the pits and was averaging about 1 in 5 pits remained in the cherries. Thats too many. I am contacting the manufacturer to see what they suggest and to get a new red rubber thing, but if that doesn't work out I will be sending this back.