Cherry pitter

A stoner or pitter is a kitchen appliance for faster Stoning of smaller stone fruit, including plum, plum, plum and cherry.

The working principle is the same: The fruit is placed in a holder and a rod presses the center of the top of the fruit. For devices for plums or prunes fruit is cut while at the same time from a knife into four parts.

Stoner are made of metal or plastic, there are different designs: Handentsteiner or floor models, simple models, or those with which one can Stoning smaller and larger fruit at the same time. Quite expensive designs have a reservoir for the fruit still to be processed, a container for the ejected nuclei as well as a channel in which the pitted fruit roll into a vessel.

Automatic stoner with reservoir for the fruit ( left) and collection container for the cores ( below)

Stoner for cherries

Child during core of a plum

Stoner for plums

Stoner for cherries