Olive Pitters

Pitting olives by hand with a knife is slow, messy and hard on the thumbs, and by the second kilo most people give up and cure them whole instead. A pitter turns that into something you can do in front of the telly, which is really the only reason stuffed olives ever get made at home.

The choice is between simple and fast. The Olive Pitter Stainless Steel Tool is the plain hand tool, solid and inexpensive, and fine for a bowl of olives. Spring loaded versions do more of the work for you. The Olive Pitter Aluminium with Spring and the Incasa Olive Pitter Alloy with Spring Return both open themselves between olives, which adds up over a big batch. In the same family of tools we also carry Westmark cherry pitters from Germany, including one with a collector tray and an economical version with a bench suction cup that holds itself steady while you feed it.

A tip from behind the counter: pit them after brining, not before. A fresh olive is firm and the stone tears the flesh apart, while a cured one gives the stone up cleanly and keeps its shape for stuffing.

Bring a bucket in and we will show you at Laverton North or Epping. Also see olives, olive curing and oil production and olive netting and rakes.

Pitting olives by hand with a knife is slow, messy and hard on the thumbs, and by the second kilo most people give up and cure them whole instead. A pitter turns that into something you can do in front of the telly, which is really the only reason stuffed olives ever get made at home.

The choice is between simple and fast. The Olive Pitter Stainless Steel Tool is the plain hand tool, solid and inexpensive, and fine for a bowl of olives. Spring loaded versions do more of the work for you. The Olive Pitter Aluminium with Spring and the Incasa Olive Pitter Alloy with Spring Return both open themselves between olives, which adds up over a big batch. In the same family of tools we also carry Westmark cherry pitters from Germany, including one with a collector tray and an economical version with a bench suction cup that holds itself steady while you feed it.

A tip from behind the counter: pit them after brining, not before. A fresh olive is firm and the stone tears the flesh apart, while a cured one gives the stone up cleanly and keeps its shape for stuffing.

Bring a bucket in and we will show you at Laverton North or Epping. Also see olives, olive curing and oil production and olive netting and rakes.

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Made in Italy
Olive Pitter Stainless Steel Tool
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$17.90 AUD $19.90 AUD
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Olive Pitter Aluminium with Spring
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Olive Pitter Aluminium with Spring
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$15.50 AUD

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Cherry Pitter with Collector Tray
Westmark - Germany
Cherry Pitter with Collector Tray
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$124.90 AUD $139.00 AUD
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Westmark - Germany
WestmarkCherry Pitter Economical with Collector Tray and bench suction cup
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$94.90 AUD $109.00 AUD
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Incasa
Olive Pitter Alloy with Spring Return
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$11.90 AUD

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