🍒 Westmark Plum Pitter - Compact 8.819 x 2.047 x 1.339 inches Design Review

As others have said, this only works for small (less than 1-3/4") plums with a maximum pit width of 5/8". If you have a source of small plums this might work for you, but the size limit is too small for plums that grow on my (Santa Rosa) plum tree or others found in grocery stores. It seems sturdy and well built.

Arrived 2 days after ordering. Heavy, solid, spring-return. With the oversized saddle and the 4-fold blade you can quickly remove pits the size of plums. Like a handmade Mondo cherry stone. Faster and safer than with a paring knife. We used a piece of Velcro to rip off a head of lettuce to keep it closed in the kitchen drawer for sundries.

My old Westmark plum stone is worn out (spring breakage) after more than 40 years of use. There are other cheaper plum kernels out there, but if this new one lasts as long as its predecessor, it's well worth the price. I use it every year to remove prunes from Italian plums and it works great on them. I don't know how well this works with other strains.

This product may be fantastic, but it has a serious safety issue that needs to be addressed. I've used it to clean about 80 plums and it's been great (as long as you keep your fingers off the bottom). But after a quick flush and my attempt to use it again, the cross blade came loose along with the hole. So the blade poked through the hole and followed into the trash can. If I hadn't seen it, I would have picked up the hole with the BLADE stuck in the pulp. I put it back in the slot but it kept…

Use with burgundy plums. Fossa, various stages of maturity, mostly small fruits, sometimes large ones (the tree is not watered during the growing season due to the drought in CA, so the fruits are slightly smaller than usual). Ripe fruit, soft to the touch, with an easily crushable core. through the bottom hole. A perfectly ripe fruit with some softness but mostly firm, not pushing through the pit but exposing it completely for easy removal. Under the ripe fruit (very hard) you need to press…

I have a plum tree that produces a million plums so I decided to buy this device hoping to speed up the pitting process. I just dug about 70 plums with this stoner and these are my pros and cons namely PROS1. Pitts plums with minimal fruit loss2. sharp3. Efficient4. Not difficult VS1. There is no protective fence at the foot of the Plum Stone. As a result, I cut my index finger as the blade pushed the stone through the plum right out the lower half of the lever. The blade goes through the lower