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Pitting an olive is the process of removing the hard, inedible stone from the fruit so you are free to chew, chop or halve the delicious flesh as a snack or for use in recipes.While pitting olives with a knife is one option (see our article in Zeea’s Kitchen), there are a number of tools available to make the process far simpler, from using a dedicated olive pitter to more impressive gadgets that can pit multiple olives at once. |
| Manual Olive Pitters Manual olive pitters come in a variety of designs, with the most popular looking like a large pair of tweezers. Olive pitters of this type allow you to place the olive on a cradle and push the handles together to remove the stone. Some household garlic presses include an olive pitter or cherry stoner below the press, so it’s worth checking to see if yours does before investing in an olive pitter. |
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Semi-Automatic Olive Pitters
There are also devices that allow for multiple olives to be placed in a container and individually pitted one at a time which can save a lot of effort if you are pitting large batches. Some models designed for pitting cherries are also worth looking into and can remove stones quickly in one movement.
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