Customer reviews for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
Leifheit Cherry Stoner
Leifheit Cherry Stoner : Leifheit Cherry Mat
Cherry Stoner made in Germany, is an amazing device that
extracts cherry stones quickly and easily. The large
feeder funnel holds up to 15 cherries, and the
spring-loaded steel plunger punches stones out cleanly,
leaving fruit whole. Processes up to 25 pounds of
cherries per hour. A nonskid pad on the bottom anchors
it firmly to the countertop. Easy to disassemble for
cleaning. 6.75"L x 5.25"W x 9.5"H.
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Rating breakdown 46 reviews
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43 out of 46(93%)customers recommend this product.
Customer reviews for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
Review 1 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
hiker48
fromIdaho
This pitter works pretty good. Like the others have said, you need to go hard and fast. Make sure you watch that the pit has actually fallen into the bowl because they sometimes stay attached to the cherry. It's best to feed the cherries one at a time because they won't roll in consistently.
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to use, size, Appearance/ Design /Style, Functional/Useful, capacity
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Review 2 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
alasy
fromLanghorne, PA
I love gagets & I love cherries; this is the greatest invention since sliced bread! So fast to depit the cherries, easy cleanup & small enough for easy storage. My ONLY complaint I would love to find stemless cherries?? I would recommend this to all cherry lovers!
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, Value for Money, easy to use, construction, Performs Well, easy to store, durability, Functional/Useful, Weight
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Review 3 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
goldilocks58
fromMassachusetts
I just pitted four pounds of cherries in record time. What would have taken me hours to do I did in less than 20 minutes. The only complaint I have is that some of the cherries would get stuck on the plunger. Still, I love this tool!
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to use, Functional/Useful
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Review 4 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
Charlottegirl
fromCharlotte, NC
The brief season is finally here for fresh cherries. There's hardly anything as tasty as fresh cherries, whether eaten "as is" or in a pie or tart. Stoning cherries by hand is so laborious that few people are willing to do enough for a large pie or tart.
This Leifheit Cherry Stoner is worth its weight in gold! I stoned 4 pounds of cherries in just a few minutes. As each cherry rolls into the stoning cavity, press the lever down very hard and fast. This "hard and fast" method allows the stone to be pressed out and gives the cherry enough force to pop out of the spout into your bowl. If you stone the cherries without force, the cherry often stays in the stoning spout. Do it hard and fast!
I have already made a large tart, a pie, and have served fresh cherries for a healthy desert and snacks. I have frozen several packs to enjoy in the winter.
I highly recommend this very cost and time effective Leifheit Cherry Stoner without reservation.
Pros: Appearance/ Design /Style, capacity, durability, Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to store, easy to use, Functional/Useful, Long-lasting, Low noise, Material, Performs Well, quality, size, Value for Money, Weight
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Review 5 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Based on reviews it is great
PostedSeptember 6, 2011
Flip
fromPlymouth, ME
Quality is good and is easy to use. Just received and can't wait to use new on.
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, quality, Material, easy to use, construction, Appearance/ Design /Style, Performs Well, easy to store, durability, Functional/Useful, capacity
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Review 6 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Think twice, very messy
PostedAugust 11, 2011
bp4402
fromFranklin, MA
I found you needed to use a tremendous amount of force to remove the stone and dislodge the cherry from the plunger. The noise was loud enough to wake people on the second floor. There was a very large cleanup after the 3 uses. I did not want to base my opinion on 1 use. Cherry juice everywhere, including the ceiling. While the collection bin for the stones is quite large, and the bin for the cherries is large, you can still only pit 1 at a time. I instead purchased the OXO Good Grips Cherry stoner for $12.99. I can still only pit 1 cherry at a time, but the mess is contained because of a clear pass thru cup for the stone, and it can also be used for olives, just like this machine. I am returning my Leigheit and keeping the OXO.
Pros: capacity
Cons: Difficult to Clean/Wash, Difficult to use, Noise
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Review 7 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Cherry Stoner?
PostedAugust 9, 2011
Shrinkrapt
fromBerkeley, CA
We tried this cherry stoner once before returning it. It did a good job on small Bing cherries, and was actually fun to use. It seemed like a good and useful device for removing the pits from lots of cherries for something like a pie. However, our favorite cherries are Raniers, and we had a lot of large, juicy ones to try. This cherry stoner could not handle the Raniers and put them through with the pits intact. It seemed the pits were too large to be expelled through the part they go through, so they came out with the cherry.
So I would give this product mixed reviews. Great for the specific purpose of pitting small cherries rapidly with consistent results, and poor for pitting large cherries with any result whatsoever.
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to use, Functional/Useful
Cons: Not as described, not for large cherries
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Review 8 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!
PostedAugust 3, 2011
polywog
fromNorth Dakota
After picking seven gallons of cherries, this little pitter made my life so much easier! In fact, I'm so in love with it, that I turned around and ordered another.
Every cherry season, I have been convincing friends they wanted to help me pit cherries, and recruiting senior citizens to help. I can pit cherries at least five times faster than with a hand pitter. Trust me, last year seven gallons of cherries would have taken far longer than 2 1/2 hours!
I also had very few missed pits (which were mentioned in other reviews). My tart cherries are smaller than a Bing, so on occasion, if two smaller sized ones got in the hopper opening at the same time, one would slide through. I just paid attention to the number of cherries flying out the chute, and rescuse the little stinker that slipped through
This week, if I had to choose between my car and this cherry pitter, it would be a hard decision!
The family cherry pie will live on!
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, Value for Money, easy to use, Performs Well, Functional/Useful
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Review 9 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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If you can deal with 89% success
PostedJuly 13, 2011
Pasta
fromNo. CA
The pitter misses slightly more than one in ten and the percentage goes down with large cherries. It's also extremely messy.
Tips: Set up a back stop as the cherry juice flies. I tape together two cardboard soda case holders, stand them up and slide the corners under a heavy cutting board so it catches the flying juice.
Pull up slightly as the pitter returns to its starting position or sometimes the cherry gets caught on the lip and doesn't fall into your container.
Drop in one cherry at a time as the cherries get caught when thye bunch up in the trough.
I pit 10 cherries at a time and then check the hopper to see if all the pits are there. If not, check underneath the pitter to see if the missing pit is stuck to the rubber gasket. If not, check the largest cherries 1st with a knife to find the missing pits. Most of the time it's the largest cherry that doesn't get pitted.
Then move the 10 cherries into a different container and empty the pits and start again.
Yes, it's time consuming but I freeze them for drinks and one ground up pit in my smoothie ruins it..
Make sure you upgrade any free shipping orders as the use of SmartPost takes forever!
Pros: Value for Money, Functional/Useful, Weight
Cons: Capacity, Performance, Difficult to Clean/Wash, Noise, size
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Review 10 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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I'M ANXIOUS
PostedMarch 21, 2011
Poopsie
fromBirds Landing CA
I recently received my Cherry Stoner. It appears to be very well made and I'm anxious for the cherries to come into season. I make a fresh cherry pie that requires about 2 1/2 lbs. of fresh cherries and I must say that pitting the cherries isn't my favorite part of making the pie, but now I'm looking forward to it!
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to use, construction, Appearance/ Design /Style, capacity
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Review 11 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Removes Drudgery
PostedFebruary 28, 2011
GiftedProfessor
fromSt. Louis Metro Area
After pitting cherries by hand for years, I find this pitter to be one of the best investment I ever make.
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, Value for Money, quality, Material, Warranty, easy to use, Low noise, construction, Appearance/ Design /Style, Performs Well, easy to store, durability, Functional/Useful, capacity, Weight
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Review 12 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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It works!
PostedJanuary 1, 2011
Most cherry pitters don't work very well and are very slow however this one works! It does just what it is intended to do. Just place the cherries in the hopper and work the plunger and a pitted cherry comes out. I bought one for my sister in law.
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, Value for Money, easy to use, Appearance/ Design /Style, Performs Well, durability, capacity
Cons: hard to store
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Review 13 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Second Time Around
PostedAugust 31, 2010
EBpotter
fromWolcott, CT
This little machine is great! I have had one for over 20 years, and it still works just fine. My daughter is turning 24, and requested her own cherry stoner for a birthday gift -- and her wish will come true!
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, Value for Money, quality, Material, easy to use, construction, Appearance/ Design /Style, Performs Well, easy to store, durability, Functional/Useful, Long-lasting
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Review 14 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Outstanding device
PostedAugust 19, 2010
Sandie
fromTexas
Pros: Neat, simple, effective. Great little gadget
Cons: Takes practice to get every pit. Some large cherries hang in the spout. Very small cons in oerall performance
Pros: Easy to Clean/Wash, Value for Money, quality, easy to use, construction, Appearance/ Design /Style, Performs Well, easy to store, Functional/Useful
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Review 15 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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saved the day
PostedAugust 9, 2010
farmdog
fromLaona, WI
We received a cooler full of cherrys from our son in Montana, This little baby made using and saving the cherries a breeze.
Pros: Appearance/ Design /Style, capacity, construction, durability, Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to store, easy to use, Functional/Useful, Performs Well, quality, size, Value for Money
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Review 16 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Best tool in our kitchen!
PostedJuly 23, 2010
Gyuszita
fromKenner, LA 70065
My wife just loves it. She have taken 3 bags os red and 2 bags of yellow cherries and pited them in no time at all. Great tool. My Brother purchased and he thinks a worl of it. Today we are giving on to a very close friend of our as a gift. She does a lot of baking, with cherries. So it will come in handy for her.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Pros: Appearance/ Design /Style, capacity, Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to store, easy to use, Functional/Useful, Performs Well
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Review 17 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Great Purchase
PostedJuly 21, 2010
Mandy123
fromSouth Dakota
The cherry stoner was incredibly easy to assemble and use. I was able to process 5 lbs. of cherries in about 20 minutes. Clean up was simple and the cherries did not stain the equipment.
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Review 18 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Cherry Pitter
PostedJuly 14, 2010
KitchenLarry
fromMichigan
Real good product, good quality at a reasonable price. I would buy more products of this manufacture. Chefs always has the good quality products. Don;t have to look elsewhere. If you wear out the rubber insert disk the manufacture wil send out two more at no cost..
Pros: Appearance/ Design /Style, construction, durability, Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to store, Functional/Useful, Long-lasting, Low noise, Material, Performs Well, quality, Value for Money
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Review 19 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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Best Purchase ever
PostedJuly 12, 2010
morningstar
fromGuadalupe Co.
So happy with this product. saved so much time even had the kids join in
Pros: Appearance/ Design /Style, capacity, construction, durability, Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to store, easy to use, Functional/Useful, Material, multi-purpose, Performs Well, quality, size, Value for Money, Weight
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Review 20 for Leifheit Cherry Stoner
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My New Best Friend!
PostedJuly 9, 2010
NCFoodie
fromSalisbury, NC
This time of year I use a lot of cherries and this little gizmo (aka Cherry Stoner) is a wonderful time saver. The best part is it really works wonderfully. No more stained fingers and lots more cherry desserts.
Pros: Appearance/ Design /Style, construction, Easy to Clean/Wash, easy to store, easy to use, Functional/Useful, Performs Well, quality, size, Value for Money, no cherry stained fingers
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