"John Kuthe" > wrote in message
...
> On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 10:00:02 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
>> I bought a new pitter last year that works for cherries and olives. It
>> worked fine up until this last batch of cherries. They seemed to have
>> overly
>> large pits! This is the one I have:
>>
>> https://smile.amazon.com/Cherry-Pitt...=cherry+pitter
>>
>> The way it works is that you put the fruit in the opening on the side,
>> hold
>> it over a bowl or whatever you want to use to contain the pits, then
>> press
>> down. The pit is then shot through a hole in the bottom. Then you turn
>> the
>> pitter sideways over whatever vessel you are using to contain the fruit.
>>
>> This time it was a big fail because about 80% of the pits were too large
>> to
>> be pushed through. Weird because they weren't overly large cherries.
>> Luckily
>> I was only serving the fruit salad to the family and not guests because
>> the
>> end result was not so pretty. I wound up having to sort of rip the
>> cherries
>> open to pull the loose pit out. Yes, I could have used a knife and it
>> would
>> have looked neater, but I was in a hurry.
>>
>> I have used the pitter many times prior. Normally it punches a neat
>> little
>> hole into the side of the fruit, the pit is gone and that is that.
>
> Every batch of cherries is a little different. In my experience!
>
> John Kuthe...

That could be. This was just the first time I've noticed big bits!