Yes! Good idea that works very well! We threw away those old sheet metal utensils a while back but managed to find one old stamped fork - that is now honored to be a working cherry pitter!
I made this last year after watching this video and I had 22 lbs of cherries. This was awesome!!! Cherries stay intact and worked great for pie, canning in sugar liquid, and for freezing. Best tool ever!!!!
That is so cool and ingenious!! I’m definitely going to make one!!! Thank you for sharing your homemade kitchen tool. I wonder if they’ll work for olives 🫒
This is amazing and just saved me big time- none of the stores around me carry cherry pitters and I just got back from a U-pick farm with several pounds ready for preserving :D Thanks so much!
AWESOME Thank you very much guys!!! I was listing to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC while watching this cool instructable on mute, and I easily figured out your spark of simple genius. Thanks again.
what a brilliant idea, I used a fillet knife, and I got a cut on my finger....this is the best tool to use for pitting than paper clip and drinking straw, etc.. thanks.
Worked great, thanks for posting this. I didn't feel the need to go out and search for a cherry pitter knowing that I wouldn't use it too often, but who would have thought, I have lots of forks to spare and happen to have needle-nose plyers as well and got it on the first try.
Really awesome! Someone sent me a link to this video because I just posted on our site about how I wouldn't travel with something as specific as a cherry pitter... that it was a creature comfort we could do without while on the road. Now I know what to do in a jam. Awesome!
Bought some more cherries! Going to make another Sweet Washington Cherry Pie. I have made a few of these cherry pitters and have given them to friends, and posted your video on my facebook page as well. Great idea guys! It saved me alot of money! I am grateful. God bless! Take care.
Love this! Can't wait for cherry season. BTW, this home made pitter keeps the cherries nice and neat, unlike a traditional pitter, and you don't lose any fruit.
Your right this worked great. It also worked great as a strawberry husker. I just put it in under the green area and spun it around and the husk came out clean and left me with a strawberry I could stuff with a nice filling.
OMG!!! Thank god i found this, i could not find a cherry pitter anywhere. I was going to have to order it off the internet or drive 2 hrs. Thank you so much!
Thanks, guys! I was just up in Traverse City this weekend, after the cherry festival and have a bunch of cherries to pit. Gonna wreck one of my forks--gladly!
This worked great! My friend gave me some cherries since I'm dehydrating some other fruit, and I went to UA-cam to find an easy way to pit them. Since I'm drying them, I pulled off the stems and went through that side.
When I was a kid, we'd have to go pick cherries (tons and tons) and then we'd all sit around the sink with the plunger cherry pitters. Put me off picking and pitting cherries. This year I'm going to pick and pit cherries. Gonna try this method and the paperclip method and see which works best. I like that either one takes up less space than a pitter and costs less.
Thank you SO MUCH. I picked almost 40#'s of cherries and couldn't find a pitter in the stores I went to! One thing I noticed though that the tines on the fork I used actually broke! I was worried that the little hooks you made on the inside tines wouldn't hold, but they seem to be working just fine! :D :D :D
I was faced with 9kg of damsons when I found your video. Got through them at a rate of 2kg per hour. In previous years I struggled with a knife - thanks guys.,
Why bent the tines separately? If you just turned the needle nose pliers sideways and lineup the tines near the flat side of the pliers evenly. You can bent them both at the same time evenly.
Sorry gents but we just did a side by side evaluation between your tool and the paperclip method and I have to say that the paperclip won by a technicality. I had a 14 year old and a 22 year old alternate between the two methods. I also tried both. I consider myself unbiased as I've just used a knife. Both tools were equally fast but the paper clip pulled out less of the cherry and created less juice. You also don't loose a fork. Both methods were twice as fast as a knife.
LOL Almost eleven years later .........your idea worked beautifully !!!! Thank You !!
Excellent,great ,it works! Just goes to show ,you DO learn something new every day!
Looks good - the cherry loses less flesh and is more presentable. I'll give it a go 👍
Yes! Good idea that works very well! We threw away those old sheet metal utensils a while back but managed to find one old stamped fork - that is now honored to be a working cherry pitter!
great! Glad this worked for you :)
I made this last year after watching this video and I had 22 lbs of cherries. This was awesome!!! Cherries stay intact and worked great for pie, canning in sugar liquid, and for freezing. Best tool ever!!!!
OMG! It works! Thank you for sharing this tip. I can’t wait for my cherry tree to produce cherries this year.
That is so cool and ingenious!! I’m definitely going to make one!!! Thank you for sharing your homemade kitchen tool. I wonder if they’ll work for olives 🫒
I don't even need a cherry pitter but these guys have a great attitude!
Wow - What a nice method. Thank you for sharing ;)
This is amazing and just saved me big time- none of the stores around me carry cherry pitters and I just got back from a U-pick farm with several pounds ready for preserving :D
Thanks so much!
Will definitely try this.Thinking of freezing loads of cherries to save for the cooler months.
Some of the cherry pitter's have bad reviews.
Thanks.
AWESOME Thank you very much guys!!!
I was listing to Keith Olbermann on MSNBC while watching this cool instructable on mute, and I easily figured out your spark of simple genius. Thanks again.
Easy Peasy. My wife loves fresh cherries. Thanks
Perfect. Works like a charm. My two little girls love cherries but don't want the pit. This makes it so much easier and cleaner. Thanks.
what a brilliant idea, I used a fillet knife, and I got a cut on my finger....this is the best tool to use for pitting than paper clip and drinking straw, etc.. thanks.
You can use a large paper clip for pie cherries. Bend straight and use the smaller end to pull out the pits.
Great idea. Couldn't find the ones I was used to in the shops. Like this one. Pull instead of push. Slick. Pies ON!
Thank you it is a marvelous tool for pitting cherries! Made pitting them so easy!!!
Worked great, thanks for posting this. I didn't feel the need to go out and search for a cherry pitter knowing that I wouldn't use it too often, but who would have thought, I have lots of forks to spare and happen to have needle-nose plyers as well and got it on the first try.
Really awesome! Someone sent me a link to this video because I just posted on our site about how I wouldn't travel with something as specific as a cherry pitter... that it was a creature comfort we could do without while on the road. Now I know what to do in a jam.
Awesome!
Thanks!! Had some fresh cherries that were going bad but needed pitting before freezing. This vid saved me heaps of time!
This is very useful for making clafoutis! I wish I had known this trick when I was baking them for a French class last year. Now I know better!
This is brilliant! It takes a few cherries to get the hang of it, but it totally works! Thank you!
Bought some more cherries! Going to make another Sweet Washington Cherry Pie. I have made a few of these cherry pitters and have given them to friends, and posted your video on my facebook page as well. Great idea guys! It saved me alot of money! I am grateful. God bless! Take care.
This works like a charm. I've always wanted one but didn't want to spend the $. Ingenious!
Made this pitter in 30 seconds. Works great. Thanks!
I just made my own cherry pitter, and it works great. Thank you for an awesome video.
Thanks for showing me something new AND saving me some money!
Love this! Can't wait for cherry season. BTW, this home made pitter keeps the cherries nice and neat, unlike a traditional pitter, and you don't lose any fruit.
thanks for sharing this, Diana!
Your right this worked great. It also worked great as a strawberry husker. I just put it in under the green area and spun it around and the husk came out clean and left me with a strawberry I could stuff with a nice filling.
OMG!!! Thank god i found this, i could not find a cherry pitter anywhere. I was going to have to order it off the internet or drive 2 hrs. Thank you so much!
Thanks, guys! I was just up in Traverse City this weekend, after the cherry festival and have a bunch of cherries to pit. Gonna wreck one of my forks--gladly!
I am going to make one today. Thanks for sharing.
This worked great! My friend gave me some cherries since I'm dehydrating some other fruit, and I went to UA-cam to find an easy way to pit them. Since I'm drying them, I pulled off the stems and went through that side.
fabulous! glad that this video was useful. thanks for watching.
Watching this August 26 2022 🙂
You are a GENIUS! Now I wish I had a crappy fork, I don't feel like ruining my good ones.
dollar tree.
a fantastic idea it works a treat, thanks guys for your ingenuity
When I was a kid, we'd have to go pick cherries (tons and tons) and then we'd all sit around the sink with the plunger cherry pitters. Put me off picking and pitting cherries. This year I'm going to pick and pit cherries. Gonna try this method and the paperclip method and see which works best. I like that either one takes up less space than a pitter and costs less.
It's been 3 yrs since you posted, what worked better: the paperclip or the bent fork? Inquiring minds would love to know.
Amazing idea. Thanks
Made this pitter, it worked like a charm!
Thanks so much...I've always wanted one, but didn't want to spend the $ for it. Ingenious!
best.idea.ever.......
thanks so much for posting this idea.
arthur, glad you found this useful. Thanks for watching.
I'm doing this for olives! Thankyou.
I don't know what a Cherry Pitter is, but this is still cool
This is so fantastic- thank you guys so much! :)
Worked like a champ
Very cool system!
Thank you SO MUCH. I picked almost 40#'s of cherries and couldn't find a pitter in the stores I went to! One thing I noticed though that the tines on the fork I used actually broke! I was worried that the little hooks you made on the inside tines wouldn't hold, but they seem to be working just fine! :D :D :D
Thank you a lot it worked 👏🏻👏🏻and i am very happy 😃 my 🍒 are looking great in the freezer thanks to your video
I want to make brandied cherries and leave the stem on, so this is great! Now I just need some needle-nose pliers...
Cool! Tks for sharing!
@sarsattacks glad you liked the video! Thanks for watching...
neat trick i got a bag in my fridge. need to make pie haha
@CheriG77 thanks for watching the video. Glad you found this technique to be easy!
Perfect! Thank you!!
glad you enjoyed the video! thanks for watching.
Brilliant
Thank you. Its a fantastic idea.
Works great 👍 thanks!
I was faced with 9kg of damsons when I found your video. Got through them at a rate of 2kg per hour. In previous years I struggled with a knife - thanks guys.,
Thanks Steve and Jessie
Ingenious!
Brilliant!
FANTASTIC...
glad you found it useful! thanks for watching.
That is a wonderful and easy gadget. I am so going to make myself one of those.
Wow!
That's genius! Thank you.
@Scottywatsoncomedian thanks for watching. glad you like it!
glad you liked the video. thanks for watching.
Thank you guys! You are awesome!
glad you liked it!!! thanks for watching.
This is terrific. I wanted to make maraschinos (stems on) for drinks, but the stardard pitters kept taking the stems. Thanks!
thank you!! glad you like it. we agree it's pretty great :)
This is awesome!! Great job, guys!
Okay definitely trying this!
Works pretty good!
@musicteacher3269 glad you found this video useful! thanks for your comment.
I've seen people use tweezers in other videos. Some even use forceps to extract the cherry pit like a surgeon performing a major operation.
Love it
fabulous
brilliant!
glad you liked it :) thanks for watching!
Thanks.........excellent idea
thanks for watching. glad you found the content useful!
SWEET!
Why bent the tines separately? If you just turned the needle nose pliers sideways and lineup the tines near the flat side of the pliers evenly. You can bent them both at the same time evenly.
thanks for watching! happy you found it useful
thanks for watching. glad you liked it!
Sorry gents but we just did a side by side evaluation between your tool and the paperclip method and I have to say that the paperclip won by a technicality. I had a 14 year old and a 22 year old alternate between the two methods. I also tried both. I consider myself unbiased as I've just used a knife. Both tools were equally fast but the paper clip pulled out less of the cherry and created less juice. You also don't loose a fork. Both methods were twice as fast as a knife.
useful! saved me 12 bucks
this is wonderful if you are only pitting a few cherries. do you guys have any suggestions for someone who needs to pit thousands of cherries?
Buy thousands of forks and start bending them.
Look around antique shops for a working crank style cherry pitter.
thanks for watching! happy it is useful!
@b1aflatoxin great feedback! thank you.
defo works!
Would it also work with olives ? Curious to know ..
it might work on olives, give it a try and let us know!
Very helpful tip.
I love this! Have you tried it on olives yet?
Thanks, now off to buy a 15c fork at the thrift store. No sense in wrecking the good silver. :)
Amazing!!