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Cherries and chopsticks
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How to pit cherries without a pitter

A quick and easy trick to pit a cherry without squirting cherry juice
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Prep Time:1 minute
Total Time:1 minute

Equipment

  • Empty sturdy bottle
  • Chopstick It also works with other long and stiff items, like reusable straws

Ingredients

  • Fresh cherries

Instructions

  • Remove stem from the cherry.
    Removing stem from cherry
  • Place the cherry on the mouth of an empty bottle. The spot where the stem used to be faces up.
    Putting cherry on empty bottle to pit it
  • Wrap cherry gently, but firmly with one hand as with the other, you place the chopstick into the stem end.
    Securing cherry to pit it
  • Press the chopstick down until it break through the cherry and push the pit out. The pit will fall down into the bottle.
    If however the chopstick misses the pit, it will anyway easy to remove it once there is a hole in the cherry.
    Pitting cherry with chopstick

Video

Notes

If you find it too difficult to come through the cherry, your chopstick may be too broad or too narrow: the pitting is the easiest when using something in a similar size (or slightly smaller) as the pit.

Nutrition

Calories: 5kcal
Course: Snack
Cuisine: Healthy
Keyword: cherry
Servings: 1 Cherry
Calories: 5kcal