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Nancy Young[_2_] Nancy Young[_2_] is offline
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Default Wire cherry-pitters -- Obsolete?

spamtrap1888 wrote:
> Having picked a quart and a half of sour cherries, I was panicking
> when I could not find my little made-in-Hong-Kong cherry pitter, the
> kind that slips over two fingers and is operated with the thumb.
>
> I thought, well this must be easy to find, only to discover that no
> grocery or hardware or kitchen supply store (e.g. Surly Table) within
> miles carries this any more.
>
> And this is the canonical cherry pitter according to wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_pitter


I see a couple on ebay, but they are not new. FWIW.

nancy