Leifheit37200 Cherrymat Cherrystone Remover

Works well, sturdy and is easy to use. Makes much shorter work of cherry pitting. You will get the odd one that doesn't come out every now and again, the suckers are always in the center of the cherry...but nice product for a handheld that's smaller and doesn't take up so much space in the kitchen drawer.

Our lone backyard cherry tree was affected by a fungus for a few years. Everything I had read indicated there was no hope and it was destined to be cut down. No rush for that in our mind being our only cherry tree. What's it gonna' hurt? We sprayed the tree in the spring a couple of times for a couple of years. Each year, seemed to improve. Last year we got some cherries off of it before the fungus took over. This year, there was no fungus. We got a lot of cherries that were smaller than we had previously when the tree was healthy. They tasted fine. With such a large amount I was not looking forward to pitting. Looked for a solution. Found it on Amazon and it looked like exactly what was needed.This worked great for my purposes and the smaller sized cherries. I controlled the feeding of cherries by releasing one at a time from a handful. Got pretty quick at it. One after another being pitted jumped into the bowl like paratroopers. At times had to pull up on the plunger to dislodge the cherry from the blade. The area where the cherry sits waiting for execution may gradually fill up with bits of cherry. You'll want to clean that out occasionally. Otherwise, cherry may not stop to be pitted but jump right into your pitted cherries. Which is why you'll want to empty that capture bowl often. You do not want to have to look through a bowl full of pitted cherries for one that isn't. You can thank me later. Machine is easy to use, easy to clean up. I still don”t look forward to pitting but this machine made the task at hand much quicker and easier. Get them cherries before the birds do!

We recently moved to the Flathead Valley in Montana where cherries are abundant. They have gone from an occasional treat to a common food. Instead of occasionally buying a bag and eating them as a snack, we have processed 80 lbs (!?!) in the last few weeks. Early on it became clear we needed a better way to pit them.After researching options and reading reviews we settled on this one. Over all, we are very satisfied.The not-so-good-It does miss about 1 in 15 pits and the faster you go the more it misses.-There is a little rubber gasket that the plunger goes through to prevent the cherry from getting pushed through into the pit bowl, this can shift and block the plunger. If you're paying attention you realize it and can move it back, if you're like me and just trying to pit as many as possible then you just push the plunger harder and punch a hole through the gasket.-It has a hard time with very small or very large cherries.-Cherry juice gets EVERYWHERE, we are still finding the occasional cherry juice splatter on the wall or cupboard even though it has been a couple weeks since the last time we used it.The Good-You can pit a lot of cherries very quick, the hopper is decent size and the pit bowl can hold a lot of pits, allowing you to take less breaks to refill/empty-It comes apart very easily and is easy to clean-Aside from the gasket, it appears well built and will last forever (the gasket would probably last forever too if it wasn't for user error)If you need to pit a lot of cherries, this is a good way to go. Just don't go too fast as it will miss some, and if the plunger is hard to push...move the gasket back in place, don't push harder.

A friend's cherry tree produced a ridiculous amount of fruit this year, and so I found myself with a grocery bag full of fruit. Not a horrible situation to be in, clearly, but I was without a pitter. Looking around at various options, I settled on the Leifheit, and I'm glad that I did. After washing and stemming the fruit, I was able to stone the fruit in what seemed like no time at all - maybe an hour.It's a simple process - a couple of handfuls of fruit into the bin, press the lever, pull it out, watch the next cherry drop in, repeat. You do have to pay attention for the occasional sneaky one that wants to jump the queue into the receiving bowl, and overloading the top bin will muck up the works, but once you get the rhythm down - about 2 loads in - you'll find that it's quick and painless. The amount of fruit lost to the stoning process was minimal, as well. The device adapted well to the varying sizes of the cherries we were using, which was very helpful.As far as the type of cherry - I couldn't tell you. They were bright read, medium sweet-tart. I look forward to eating them, stone-free!Update - so this year our own dwarf sour cherry tree produced fruit, and we beat the birds to harvest. The cherries were a bit smaller than the ones we got last year. The pitter still did a great job. With smaller cherries, you definitely have to watch your flow, feeding one cherry through at a time. It sounds much more tedious than it is. I went through 6 lbs of cherries in about 30 minutes. It took far longer to stem the cherries than it did to pit them.