In the process of putting this together right now! As for pitting cherries, I did just what Dorie suggested – used a chopstick to push the pit through. Worked fairly successfully, although it seemed a little messy. But, what do I know? I’ve never pitted cherries before, so maybe it’s always messy!
I have an oxo cherry pitter which works quite well. And yes it is messy no matter how you do it.
Sadly it is far too late for cherries here. I even have a pitter. We are subbing peaches instead.
I thought cherries would be gone by now where I live, too, but found sour cherries at one stand at the farmers market today, so I will try them out here. I was thinking I’d use blackberries if I had to sub.
I also thought cherries would be gone so I was going to sub in blueberries, but I was lucky that I did end up finding some cherries.
I used plums. SO good.
I used a chopstick and a bottle. I placed a cherry on top of an empty bottle, stem side down and quickly poked the pit through with the thicker end of a chopstick. I tried doing it the other way, poking the cherry stem side up, but that didn’t end well; I either shoved the entire cherry down the bottle, or cherry juice squirted EVERYWHERE! It looked like I murdered someone by the time I was done with my cherries!
Tuesdays with Dorie 
In the process of putting this together right now! As for pitting cherries, I did just what Dorie suggested – used a chopstick to push the pit through. Worked fairly successfully, although it seemed a little messy. But, what do I know? I’ve never pitted cherries before, so maybe it’s always messy!
I have an oxo cherry pitter which works quite well. And yes it is messy no matter how you do it.
Sadly it is far too late for cherries here. I even have a pitter. We are subbing peaches instead.
I thought cherries would be gone by now where I live, too, but found sour cherries at one stand at the farmers market today, so I will try them out here. I was thinking I’d use blackberries if I had to sub.
I also thought cherries would be gone so I was going to sub in blueberries, but I was lucky that I did end up finding some cherries.
I used plums. SO good.
I used a chopstick and a bottle. I placed a cherry on top of an empty bottle, stem side down and quickly poked the pit through with the thicker end of a chopstick. I tried doing it the other way, poking the cherry stem side up, but that didn’t end well; I either shoved the entire cherry down the bottle, or cherry juice squirted EVERYWHERE! It looked like I murdered someone by the time I was done with my cherries!