How to Use a Mason Jar Cherry Pittter + a Giveaway
Cherry season is about to begin in our neck of the woods. Pick-your-own cherry season starts on Friday, at one of our local fruit farms.
Picking cherries is loads of fun, but pitting them…well it’s the pits…literally! In an effort to forever eliminate this grueling task from our cherry jamming efforts we found a better way. Our push button Cherry Pitter fits on regular mouth canning jars! All of the cherry pits go into the jar…no waste & no mess! Needless to say, we were in love at our first pitting.
We put together this quick video to show you how easy it is!
The Giveaway
In celebration of cherry season we are giving away one Cherry Pitter to a lucky winner! Hurry, this giveaway is ending on Thursday, June 19, 2014! Enter yourself to win at the end of the post.
If you don’t want to take your chances, you can get your own Cherry Pitter here and replacement rubbers here.
Now that we’ve saved you a ton of time pitting cherries, maybe you’ll add an extra cherry recipe to your list this year. We know a few folks who do the most delightful things with cherries!
- Sweet & Sour Cherry Jam
- Sour Cherry Jam
- Sour Cherry Pie Filling
- Canned Cherries
- Maraschino Cherries
- Cherry Pie
Find more recipes on our jams & jellies Pinterest board!
We made some Cherry Jam last year and are all out so that will have to be replenished. Cherry pie is always a favorite!
I would love to can some cherry pie filling.
I really, really need this!!!!
I love making cherry jam! It’s the perfect blend of sour/sweet and goes great with peanut butter!
wow!
I live in the cherry Capitol of the world (Michigan), and I’d love one of these! Thanks!
I’d probably just eat them fresh but might bake a cake with a cherry layer.
Oh how I wish I had this last year! My fingers were a beautiful shade of burgundy from pitting cherries for hours last season and I have a feeling that with a pitter we’d probably eat less!
Love one!
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I’ve never canned anything with cherries, but would love to give it a try!
Wait, you can do more with cherries than just eat them by the pint? Only partially kidding. Once the cherries reach the house they vanish so fast I rarely get the chance to can or bake with them. With a pitter though, maybe I could get ahead of those hungry children. I’d love to try drying some.
I love cherries so much I have received jars as birthday gifts!
We love to freeze cherries to add to our oatmeal year round!
Cherry jams are on my list — cherry mixed with black currant is one of my favorites. I looked everywhere for the mason jar pitter last summer – will be buying it from you guys if I don’t win 🙂
I would love to try this. If my hubby can keep his hands off the cherries long enough, lol.
Great giveaway!
I don’t know that I would make anything with cherries. Just plan to eat them. 🙂 I would LOVE one of these. how cool.
I would make some cherry pie filling
I would like to make a cherry claufotis!
cherry jam…cherry ice cream…mmmmm yummy!
I’ve got a jam recipe that uses sweet cherries that my family loves, so that is on my “to can” list this year.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Cool!
I will be making cherry jam this summer.
I love making sour cherry jam and jelly.
I love cherry pie!
We always look forward to cherry season. Cherry pickles, Cherry Jam and Cherry pie filling are staples for us. This year we may add some cherry butter and cherry chutney.
Rinse Cherries in cold water, and eat.
I couldn’t wait so I ordered one but I still want to win so I can gift it. I canned 12 half pints of Rainier Cherries last week, 6 of them with rum in ’em.
This sure beats pitting them with a bobby pin like my Gramma showed me 40 years ago. That was the PITS! Winning this would be like a Miracle to me!!
I’d make cherry pie, a cherry cobbler, and topping for a cheesecakke
I just made cherry jam and am contemplating maraschino cherries. This cherry pitter looks awesome!
I will be making cherry jam and a cherry pie! This gadget looks like just the ticket for pitting those cherries and keeping the cherry meat!
Cherry pie filling.
Cherry pie, cherry jam and tons else! TY for the giveaway!
ingenious idea!
I made bourbon-y sour cherries last night–yum!
Pies
I made pie cheery coffee cake this week, will make some soda syrup and maybe some boozy cheeries
Every year I freeze cherries to use in muffins. With a proper pitter I could do so much more, pie filling?
Jam!
Now that would be handy!
I will make Cherry Jam and dehydrate them for a yummy snack!
would love to make cherry pie filling
Pie, pie, delicious pie!!!!
Canned cherries !!
I’ll be eating them fresh!
I need to buy a bunch of cherries to make a nice cherry shrub and a truly embarassing amount of chocolate cherry ice cream.
I’d make some cherry pies!
I love them on cherry sauce pancakes!!!
Would love to make cherry jam and pie filling.
So many possibilities with our wonderful Michigan Cherries. Amaretto cherry jam!
I am going to try maraschino cherries–love them, horrified by the food dye!
I’ll be making cherry hand pies. I’ll be using my grandmother’s recipe.
We never get enough cherries!
looks great. we will be canning pie filling this year
This looks great! + This is a big crop year from the cherry trees in my life!
Most of the cherries around here are eaten fresh. But if I can sneak a few away, I like a cherry sundae sauce. Thanks for the giveaway.
Cherries are my favorite fruit!
Love pitted cherries and this looks so much easier than the one that attaches to the counter and continually comes loose!
Would love to learn to use this to make cherry jam
My kids love fresh cherries but struggle with the pits, this would help me keep them cleaner while they eat them!
I would love one of these
What will you make with cherries this season? A mess 🙂 My son will at least. I’ll probably make a pie!
Looking forward to the Cherry season and canning
Cherry jam, pie and sorbet!
I would love to have this to help in making cherry pies. They are absolutely delicious.
I just bought a slug of cherries to can. I am going to try a few recipes that I see here. Thanks!!!
Cherry Cheese pie is my absolute favorite, so I see cherry pie filling in my future plus any other weird recipe I come across. For whatever idiot reason, I seem to like making unusual things
Quick and easy, a must have!!!!
I would love to try to make a cherry pie. . . yum!
My husband’s family were cherry growers in Northern Michigan. I’ve seen a pitter like this at my MIL but she won’t give it up. I guess I need to buy my own.
Love cherry jam.
That is so cool!!! Would love one of those, we were sporting pinkish fingers last year 🙂
This is such a cool idea! It’s definitely cherry season where I live, & I’ve put off making any recipes with the cherries because pitting the cherries is — well — the pits! (pun intended)
Looks great!
We have our own cherry tree, now, so this will (hopefully) come in very handy!
I would love to make cherry pie filling and this would make it so much easier.
I would love to make a cherry pie!
what a neat invention – cherry pitter would love to try this
I’d love to dehydrate them and have them for baking and things like granola all year long. With no added sugar that is!