On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:56:15 -0700 (PDT), 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
>
>All I can find are great hulking things made out of pot metal,
>suitable for pitting olives, egg carton things that can pit four at a
>time, etc. None are suitable for relatively tiny sour cherries.
>
>What to do?

Check out:
http://about.pricegrabber.com/search... ntertaining&

or http://tinyurl.com/2ce3ypr

Ross.