On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:44:48 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"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 tits!

I only pit sour cherries... sweet cherries are for munching and pit
spitting.