How to Pit Sour Cherries Using a Vintage 16 Cherry Stoner
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2016
- Pitting Sour Cherries is pretty easy with this vintage "16 Cherry Stoner." A wonderful mechanical sour cherry pitter worth looking out for on your next thrifting adventure.
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My neighbor has a sour cherry tree and she no is elderly so longer harvests the cherries. She said I can have them. I am so excited. 🥳
She even bought me the exact cherry pitter you show here at a local vintage resale shop.
Thank you for sharing this video! I can’t wait to try it. I think the cherries will be ripe in about a week.
Thanks for posting. We have a Enterpirise Mf’g. Cherry Stoner from Philly. Looks nearly identical. Our tart Cherry tree was exploding this year. So much that the squirrels couldn’t get them all.
Figured I would check RUclips instead of doing a ‘trial by error’ test with the stoner. This was perfect. Thank You Tom.
Thanks for the tutorial. I was gifted my great-grandmothers cherry stoner and was finally able to use it. My sour cherry tree is full this year.
What a video to clarify my doubts, I am from El Salvador and just found one of this at sale for 5 usd, It did look like an old item to me but I did not have an idea what was it, it just called my attention and I decided to take it home, bad thing cherries are not so common here, but now I want to get some to use it... Cheers.
Thank you soooo much for this. I just got a package from my Aunt. She sent me this exact stoner! I looked at it and thought well how do you use that! Now I know . Time to pit my cherries 🍒
So glad it helped!
Excellent! Glad you like it!
I live in Kona Coffee country and we use these to extract coffee beans from the coffee cherries. Works great, but is the opposite of stoning cherries; eg the beans come out where the seeds appear when stoning cherries, and the waste hull of the coffee beans drops down where you get the cherry "meat" in the video. Still, way cool and very effective.
JUST BOUGHT ONE...SO EXCITED...WOW THESE OLD ONES ARE THE BEST!!!
wow, I needed one of these last week when I pitted 6 lbs of cherries by hand!
Thanks. My mom had one when cleaning out her house. I have tart cherry trees and this will make my jam making much easier.
Sour cherries are good to bake with chicken, too. Not just for pies anymore.
Your pies always look great.
Thanks!
Thank you!
I got one. :-)
It pits sweet cherries too. I never pitted sour cherries with one, just Royal Anne.
Do you think this would work well with Wild Black Cherries (Prunus serotina)?
Colton I don't think so if they are like the wild black cherries I have; the seed is not freestone and hard to remove from the cherry.
Found this new, xylon coated, from walmart online for $77 shipped if anyone is interested.... Curious what varieties of sour cherry you have used successfully with this. I have mostly Carmine Jewel but also Juliet and Montmorency...
I've only tried it with Montmorency, the variety I grow.
I have Montmorency, and they work well in this old vintage gadget, but I use it mainly for jams, as it does a good job of mangling the cherry when removing the pit. So best used for cherries in sauces, jams, jellies, and chutneys.
How would one of those work for pitting Nanking Cherries? They are about half the size of the sour ones you have in the video. What's the smallest cherry it will pit?
Hi Philip, not sure about this. Compare the pits, if the nanking pit is the same size or larger it should work. If the nanking cherry seed is smaller than a pie or sour cherry seed, I fear it won't work and the seed will be dispensed along with the cherry flesh and not separated.
Were there other models apart from the "16"?
Graham I've seen others around, they tend to just be called cherry stoners but share a similar design.
not sure, I've only seen the #16
Were cane l by thisone?
Eri, you can find them to buy on EBay and Etsy sometimes.
Can you wash it with dish soap?
Yes, just dry it well after use.
yes, just dry thoroughly
Have you every tried to use this with Cornelian cherries? Love the Dogwood! Hate the depitting!
Hi Mike, you know I've never considered the Cornelian cherries, but only because they weren't on my radar, until now. Thanks. From what I read, the large seed does not come away freely, so this stoner would likely not work on it.
no haven't tried that. The cherry needs to be one that the meat slips easily from the stone, ,like sour cherries
Good to know it won't work on big cherries.