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Nothing will stop me frombakingwith cherries.
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Too much hassle, he said.
And you know what?
Its as annoying a task as: peeling apples, chopping onions, trimming green beans.
And yet we do all of those with a lot less whining.
Cherry pitting is a painuntil you look at it as meditative.
A part of the process.
Let the world slow down a bit.
You pew-pew-pew the pits into a bowl and toss your still intact, hollowed-out cherries in another.
They cause cherry juice splatter, but it washes off easily.
(Also, that’s what aprons are for.
)My favorite single-pit pitter is OXOs.
I use it for olives, too.
But its fast and efficient and stores away all winter, awaiting its moment.
So today I pitted a bag of sweet cherries three different ways to compare the differences.
Pitting by hand was the absolute worst.
PITTER ALL THE WAY.
OXO released aMEGA pitterthis year.
It does six cherries at once.
Again, I literally timed it.
(36.5 seconds for 6 cherries.)
However, this design creates NO SPLATTER WHATSOEVER.
And it captures the pits in a little trap.
OXO Multi-Cherry Pitter
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For that reason, the single pitter is still my favorite.
Not baking with cherries and wondering if you need a pitter?
Nah, you dont.
Spit the pits into the yard and get on with your summer.
Once you’ve pitted a bunch, make this:
This article originally appeared on Bon Appetit.
