Oliven- og kirsebærgropitter

My countertop used to look like a crime scene every time I made a martini, but this little hand-operated tool punches the pit out cleanly in one quick squeeze. It handles both olives and cherries without crushing the fruit, which is exactly what I needed.

I’ve got a big jar of olives that used to sit in the fridge because pitting them by hand was a nightmare—now it takes me just a few minutes, and the plunger doesn’t mash the fruit like my old knife trick did. The hand-operated design is simple enough that I don’t even need to look at what I’m doing,

The plunger pops each pit out cleanly, and I didn’t crush a single olive while prepping a batch for tapenade. It’s simple to squeeze and rinse off between fruits, which saved me a real headache at the kitchen sink.