Mason Jar Cherry Pitter
Let’s face it pitting cherries is, well it’s the pits…literally! In an effort to forever eliminate this grueling task from our cherry jamming efforts we decided to find a better way.
We made a batch of Sour Cherry Jam from Food in Jars with our push button mason jar Cherry Pitter that 
fits on regular mouth (G70) canning jars and is made in the USA! All of the cherry pits go into your jar…no waste & no mess! Needless to say, we were in love at our first pitting.
The special rubber helps to protect your cherries and replacement rubbers are available, if needed.
We loved this Cherry Pitter so much that we sent one to our friend, Marisa over at Food in Jars. She loved it too and used it to make some sweet and sour cherry jam and she’s sharing the recipe on her blog.
If you need a reason to make a pie, check out this idea – ‘pie it forward’.
Tip: To help the Mason Jar Cherry Pitter look its best & last longer, it is important to wash all parts in warm soapy water to remove the acidic juices. Also, resist the urge to run it through the dishwasher… the steam drying and extended exposure to water will cause it to rust much more quickly!
We’ve collected quite a few cherry-centric recipes over the years! Be Sure to check out our “Preserving Cherries Recipe Round-Up“.
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no favorite cherry recipe but would love to find one 😉
Looking forward to canning more cherry pie filling. Last years supply is gone and it’s time to restock. Looks like this pitter would be easier than doing it by hand..
Would have been so much nicer than the small piece of brass pipe I used for 15 pounds of cherries earlier this month.
It always amazes me what nifty items are thought up by the people of this world. I love cherries!
I pitted 17 pounds of cherries this year, this pitter would have made it so much easier!
Would be amazing! One less mess
I make Put Em Up cherry jam. Everyone is constantly asking me for a jar!
What a smart idea! Love this!
Perfect for making my faves – cherry pie & cherry butter!
Love cherry desserts! This cherry pitter looks awesome.:-)
Cherry pie! And eating them fresh of course.
A favorite cherry dessert of ours is cherry cheese dessert. The base is a graham crust with a cream cheese mixture as the next layer, topped with cherry pie filling, any other pie filling or fresh fruit!
Cherry season is in full swing and this cherry pitter would certainly come in handy!
Oh, this would be awesome to own! I like making boozy cherries to use in drinks — soaked in bourbon and a bit of sugar. Yum!
My favorite cherry recipe would have to be these cherry cordial cookies that I make.. they remind me of a chocolate covered cherry!! They are the best!!!
I would be so thrilled to get this cherry pitter! So lovely!
Favorite Cherry Recipe would have to be boozy cherries – SO GOOD! Love them!
sour cherry jam. yum!
Favorite cherry jam recipe so far uses Ranier cherries – more subtle than Bing.
Love the cherry pitter!
I.LOVE.CHERRY.PIE!!!
I like cherries just in their natural off the stem state However when picking 2-3 cherry trees a year I have to pit some!
Cherry pie, of course!
My cherry pitter broke this year. This would be a much appreciated improvement–and then I could use the pits for cherry vinegar!
cherry pie!
I am about to work with cherries, so this would be perfect!
I don’t have a favorite cherry “recipe” – yet. I planted 3 little cherry trees last year, and will definitely be canning plain cherries and cherry juice when those trees start producing! I bet Marisa at Food In Jars has great instructions and recipes for me to use. 🙂
I’ve used an Oxo cherry pitter for years that has served me well, but this one is genius! I make sour cherry jam each year.
I haven’t tried canning cherries yet – partially because I don’t have a pitter and doing it by hand would take so long! I’d probably start with cherry pie filling.
I love making cherry syrup with locally grown tart pie cherries. Every year I cut the amount of sugar more and more, to bring out that tart flavour I love!
Cherry pie with amaretto.
This is spectacular! It looks so much easier than my hand putter.
Cherry season is over for me right now, but I am super excited for next year!
Good old fresh picked cherry pie is my favorite thing.
I enjoy making Black Forest Cherry Macaroon Conserve and Sweet Cherry Jam with Amaretto. These make wonderful hostess and holiday gifts. A cherry pittter would really come in handy.
Love a good cherry pie or cherry turnover!
I made rainier cherry jam this year and it is da bomb!’
I love sour cherries, but they are so hard to find fresh! I canned sweet cherries in light syrup for my daughter who can’t eat raw fruits.
Cherry Brown Pammy! This a a family recipe for Apple Brown Betty that I re-engineered and my husband renamed in honor of me. Isn’t that sweet?
I love cherries straight so I normally just can them in a simple syrup. But now I’m thinking that cherry-vanilla jam would be lovely.
Pie jam and filling YUMMM!!!
Cherries I purchase never last long enough to be made into a recipe. I do love cherry jam and cherry pie though!
My favorite cherry recipe is chocolate cherry ice cream.
Cherry clafouti is my favorite. Yum! I’ve already eaten my weight in cherries this summer. 🙂
We love cherry jelly.
I love Marisa’s no cook sour cherry syrup!
What a GREAT invention! Neat!
Cherries in red wine syrup! a little adult, a little sweet; yum!
I made Brandied Cherries for the first time this year and they are delicious!
Cherry hand pies! I’ve had my eye on the sour cherry preserves in my canning book though….hope to try it soon.
My favorite cherry recipe? Oh, cherry pie comes to mind, or perhaps pork and cherry terrine. I also saw a while back how to make your own Maraschino cherries… I thought that was pretty cool.
I have started canning the last couple of years so would love to make cherry jam. Or make canned cherry pie filling to pour over homemade cheesecake!
I used a great recipe last season for Cherri Pie Filling! The recipe is easy to follow and tasted sooooooo yummy!
Here is the link: https://www.mybakingaddiction.com/homemade-cherry-pie-filling-recipe/
I don’t know a way I don’t like cherries! Cherry vanilla jam.
Amaretto peach
Aside from simply eating them fresh, I like making a spicy cherry and wine sauce (using black cherries, pepper, onions, pinot noir, cayenne, cloves, and other spices) for meats (heaven on roasted duck) and cheeses (like a rosemary and goat cheese torte).
I’m not sure I have a favorite cherry recipe… yet. They are so amazing fresh, ripe, and raw! (That and they’re kind of a pain to bake with, since I don’t yet own a cherry pitter…) 🙂
We just like washing them and eating them. The pitter would make that so much easier!
Cherry pie!
Is there anything with cherries that’s not good?! Pie is way up there, though.
Cherries are the best. Thanks for an excellent reminder to make cherry jam! Last year I pitted them all by hand just because I couldn’t bring myself to buy a cherry pitter.
Cherry Pie from an old 1950’s pie cookbook. I’ll have to dig for the recipe.
My favorite cherry recipe is Black Forest Jam. Cocoa powder and cherries are a marriage made in heaven! Good on almond butter sandwiches or over ice cream.
This will save so much time! Plus, it will keep my nails from looking so stained during cherry season!
This would be so convenient! Then maybe I wouldn’t buy the big tubs of pitted 🙂
My favorite cherry recipe is eating them fresh! I’d like to freeze some too.
This is brilliant! I love roasting cherries in wine or brandy and serving over greek yogurt.
My cheap plastic cherry pitter broke. This one looks solid, plus I love mason jars!
I made a batch of Marissa’s Pickled Cherries last night- can’t wait to crack open a jar later this week…
i made cherry preserves this summer (without a pitter, unfortunately) and they were so good!
I love cherry preserves. They are delicious by themselves or on pretty much anything.
Making cherry jam and cherry pie but never used a cherry Pitter This will be great!
My favorite cherry pie recipe would be a basic cherry pie recipe really. I have only made one cherry pie in my life which entailed the fresh fruit and pitting them by hand with a spoon..needless to say I was cherried out after that. But, I made it for my best gal pals birthday last year. I would make another again if I had this nifty pitter! I am becoming quit the collector of canning supplies I LOVE it! so much fun!
Cherry pie, of course!
Stone fruit pies and balsamic sauces are my favorite cherry concoctions — but truly, there is no better way to eat them than off the tree. 🙂
My kids eat cherries by the bushel. What a great idea!
My favorite cherry recipe is just the basic cherry jelly in the blue Ball Canning book. I’ve never used a pitter before (just my fingers) but this one looks really neat since it catches all the pits!
Cherry Pie would be my recipe.
I need a cherry pitter sooo bad! 🙂
Wish I had it now! Just came back from Traverse City with some wonderful sweet Michigan Cherries.
I love cherries in my smoothies – cherries, blueberries, blackberries & raspberries, pomegranate juice, and greek yogurt. Yum! Or cherry/cranberry ketchup on pork? Crap. Now I’m hungry!
I’m a fan of sweet cherry galettes-flaky pastry and a good handful of fruit with just a little sprinkle of sugar.
Cherry pie with raspberries added…wow!
We love cherry pie with a crumbly crust. This would make it so much easier and way more fun to pit the cherries!
I love making cherry jam! I can’t wait to try out Marisa’s sweet and sour recipe!
My favorite is cherry pie. So delicious!!
I like that it fits on a Mason Jar. We’ll be picking cherries later this summer.
cherry ice cream
I love a simple cherry handpie more than just about anything, though I’ll almost always opt for raw cherries as there’s no need to mess with perfection (that and I’m lazy!).
Cherry pie!
I love just eating cherries but cherry cobler is good too.
Oh cherries I eat them until i’m sick, every time.
I love cherry pies!
What a great and useful canning jar attachment
I have a cherry cornmeal upside down cake I love to make every summer!
When I was about 10 we lived in a tenement building .Our back yard ran along the side of a garage, smack in the middle against the garage was the most beautiful white or queen cherry tree. We would climb the tree jump to the garage roof and pick and eat cherries until dazed. My only problem was getting down, many a day i had to wait for my dad to come help. He was never to angry because I always saved him some cherries. Ah my miss spennt youth!
Ohhh cherry pie!!
I love anything that will fit on a mason jar! : )
Cherry Pie of course.
I just like to eat cherries raw but I can really get into a good cherry crumble!
My favorite is sour cherry and gooseberry jam! Delicious. But I could definitely use a cherry pitter!!!
I am SO looking forward to pitting cherries with this toy…. and olives!
I would love this cherry pitter to make sour cherry jam easier and faster!
I am a Bing Cherry enthusiast! I love cherry juice and cherry jam with Bings. Also cherry pie, cherry cobbler, cherry shrub, dried cherries and of course just eating cherries! I use Ball no sugar needed pectin to make cherry jam without any added sugar.
Our local orchard pits cherries that you or pick (or buy) and it is worth going to see the pitting machine! However I always want more cherries that I have to pit so this litter looks so great!
I generally eat my cherries out of hand or make jam–and then I use the jam in all sorts of baked goods!
Sour cherry pie…not to sweet.
My favorite cherry recipe is a pie that my fantastic grandmother invented. It’s a cherry-cranberry pie. She was always coming up with recipes and entering contests. She was a finalist many times at the California run shows with her creations. This pie is usually one that is made in the fall, but I have hoarded some cranberries in my freezer so that I can make it in the summer. 🙂 I wish she was alive to see this cool cherry pitter. What a time saver it would have been for her!
I’ve just started canning, so I don’t have a favorite cherry recipe yet, but I do love them and look forward to trying different ones!
This looks so good! This will make cooking cherry jam so much easier -and less labor intensive than pitting each cherry by hand .
I <3 sour cherries sooo much! Pitting them with a straw is okay, but I'd love to try the jar contraption!
As my husband and I were on our way to the farmers market today oddly he asked why I hadn’t canned any cherries. Answer…no cherry pitter. Then to come home and see this on the blog and have to enter. 🙂
Cool!! This would be a neat project.
Just finished pitting cherries by hand…would love a cherry pitter
I love gadgets that work!!
Cherry pie by far is my favorite!
pie! i love pie all day long!
Cherry Cobbler is definitely my favorite recipe!
Cherry Cobbler made with sour cherries and a fluffy biscuit topping has been know to call my name in the middle of the night .. . . .
Cherry pie…with home canned filling, not the store-4-cherries-per-can-+chemicals-bought.
My favorite cherry recipe is the cherry bars from Smitten Kitchen. They were pretty fantastic!
I love cherry cobbler with the crumb topping…so good
I mad Food in Jars sour cherry jam every year. It is my favorite jam.
This would be awesome to own!
This is a wonderful, genius tool! I’ll keep my fingers crossed to get one.
I love cherries! I make Marisa’s Sour Cherry Jam every year. This could speed things up considerably…
my favorite cherry recipe is good, ol’ cherry cobbler, with 2 crusts!
Cherry pie or turnovers!
pickled sour cherries!
Cherry jam! I’ve only ever pitted cherries with a paper clip!
That looks pretty handy. Cherry season is done around my area but I’d certainly use it next year. Pitting cherries is, well the pits, and that’s why this year I canned a bunch of my sour cherries in syrup with pits and stems ala maraschino style.
LOVE this…thanks for the chance!
I am a novice to canning and this tool would make tackling cherries canning recipes easier. Plus, it just looks like it would make the task much more fun.
What a cool idea. Beats chasing cherry pits all over the kitchen
Pickled cherries are my favorite! They are so good on a leftover ham sandwich!
We just love fresh cherries!! I just wish they grew in the South.
I love cherry pie!
Cherry cheesecake all the way!!!!
Sour Cherries are finally in season here.. will be visiting my favourite u-pick and making jam this weekend!
I made a cherry jam with a little chocolate in it a few years ago. It was good, but when I wanted to make more, I cheated and bought frozen cherries just to escape the job of pitting them. This is a great idea!
My favorite way to use Cherries is to put frozen sour cherries in my oatmeal while it is cooking and they thaw out and flavor the whole batch of oatmeal.
Brilliant way to pack the cherries in!
Sour cherry cobbler can’t be beat!
I love cherries on their own, so delicious! But cherry pie is to die for!
My favorite way to eat cherries will likely always be cherry pie, but I have recently fallen in love with pickled cherries too. Yum!
Cherry pie!
Your cherry pitter would make giving my grandkids fresh cherries to eat a whole lot easier!
Currently my favorite is my cherry pie filling, which is great in pies, over cheesecake and sandwiched in the middle of a great black forest cake. But I’m currently brining some for homemade marachino cherries, and fermenting others for cherry liquer, so we’ll see if the cherry pie filling remains a favorite. This pitter looks so much less cumbersome than my current one, maybe with it my almost 6 year old could get in on the pitting action.
I’ve never preserved cherries, but I’d like to. Am I too late for getting local cherries in Oregon? Ours ripened in late June, but having to share with the birds, there weren’t really enough to do much with other than eat ’em right off the tree.
Mostly cherries just get eaten fresh on my household, but I love to have some stashed in the freezer for cherry-peach smoothies!
My favorite cherry recipe is for homemade (healthier!) “maraschino” cherries. I use them throughout the year in cookies and cakes, but they are especially good in old fashioned fruit cakes!
Cherry Smoothie: 2 c diet V-8 splash; handful of fresh spinach; cherry yogurt container; banana, fresh pineapple, bluberries, and anthing else you want; 1 c frozen cherries and a glass full of ice. Vita-Mix a few minutes…YUM!! I also add a scoop of protein powder. db
I would love to win the cherry pitter. My favorite thing to make with sour cherries is a cobbler.
My oldest daughter loves cherries. I will have to get her to help me with some of these recipes.
I need one. Doing it by hand is the pits!
Cherries soaked in bourbon – perfect for a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned!
where do I enter the contest?
After reading about this pitter I am very interested in one.
Looking forward to pitting and jamming!
Yay to pitting and jamming! 🙂
I tried a number of pitters pricey to not so pricey and was unsatisfied with their performance. Looking once again for a pitter that I liked, I found the Mason Jar type pitter and after using it now for four years I love the thing. I just started looking for a place I can purchase another one in case I found someone who will help me pit at that time of the year. Also a place I can get a few spare rubberbands in case the one I have goes bad. All in All I love this type of pitter.
So glad that you’re enjoying it! We’ve got the replacement rubber pieces if you need them!Thanks for sharing, Bob!