Careful. You’ll put your eye out.

We stopped at an Aldi in central Connecticut on the first day of the sale and were quite pleased with the quality of the sale cherries (from Washington State, IIRC). In general, we find their produce to be decent.
We own one of these and it works as advertised.

We use the Swiss Cherry pitter. We even brought it on our trip because we brought about 3 pounds total of cherries. I still prefer to pit them within my mouth. I don’t use the pit tools.

Just remember Miss Manners says remove the pit from your mouth with your fingers. Don’t spit them onto the plate (or across the room).

I will remember to pass on your homemade cherry desserts, then.

lol if I used cherries to make dessert for others, Im sure mine would still taste better than the Swiss pitter. So we have 2 potters. The Swiss Rimel (???) one in RED. And a MIC Oxo Grips in black. I still prefer my mouth. I just ate a bowl of red cherries. Costco organic red $10.99 for a 2-lb clamshell.

I quite understand this since spitting often ricochet before the dog gets them.

However removing them with your fingers is equally messy if you eat a 1/2 lb or more as they tend to stick to your fingers

I believe her actual advice is that the pits or seeds of a fruit should be removed by the same means that brought the fruit to your mouth. So if you eat watermelon with a fork, you remove the seeds with the fork. I’ve never actually seen anyone eat fresh cherries with a fork.

I use the stem for cherry eating.

About $3.75/pound in Sweden. Seem to often be imports from Turkey.

Rainier cherries were $5 per pound on July 3 at the Aspen, Colorado farmers market. Prices usually drop after July 4, so I'll update again next week.

I've always wondered why the Raniers cost more. I much prefer the dark red Bings. Maybe they're harder to grow, but our smallish Ranier tree was very prolific and has had no care for years.

I agree. I prefer the red, but don’t taste a huge difference.

Ranier cherries are $3.49 in today’s Aldi ad.

An observation

I tried the Aldi raniers that were mostly yellow in color and they were grossly inferior to their red Bings

However the Raniers at Alldis that were rosy red mixed with yellow were superior to Red Bings

Random fact: if you buy cherries from roadside stands in Northern Michigan (near TVC, the Cherry Capital Airport) they sell them without stems. I don't know why.

The Raniers at Publix were packed in very small bags so I succumbed to the temptation. Conclusion: nothing special.

Our Raniers were very rosy. About 3/4 red, but the flesh is 100% yellow... Just don't seem to taste as "rich" to me as the Bings.

eek it’s harder to eat without stems.

:confused: Why?

i use the stem to lift & move Cherry from bowl to mouth. Without stem, I need to use my fingers or a fork/spoon. I prefer stem.

How do you eat grapes?

$3 per pound in Aspen today, down from $5 per pound on Saturday.

So you still use your fingers, they just don't touch the actual fruit. If your hands are clean, it's basically the same thing if you touch the fruit itself. I usually grab a few at a time and pop them in my mouth and spit out the seed (pit) into a small bowl. I wish I could grow a tree, but all attempts have failed so far, most likely due to the climate of South Florida.

.98 per lb in Eureka, CA for over 2 weeks now. They're good too.

this is a Cherry thread :-)

Ok but we’re going to remind you every time you crosspost something. :)

Bings are $2.99 and Rainiers $4.99 (plus the addditional 10% for Prime) at Whole Foods this week. That will be my backup plan if Aldi is out of $1.99s (or if they’re not up to snuff).

Aldis has the Rainers at $4.39, I passed on them today and went for the Bings

I just read in the August issue of Bon Appetit that cherries that still have stems attached mean that they were hand picked which is apparently a good thing. I don't know how to link the article as I have a paper subscription but interesting cherry facts on there.

Hmm, but don't you usually find ones with and ones without mixed together in a bag (and a bunch of unattached stems at the bottom)? I can't say I have ever seen a bag of all stemless cherries, unless we're talking frozen pitted. (And my quick googling suggests that cherries are a crop that requires hand picking, although they are working on technologies for machine picking.)

$5 for a 3lb box at Acme. Not gorgeous, but worth that price.

$4.99/lb for rainiers at sunset foods, hp il

In Northern Michigan they harvest then mechanically.

I paid $3.99 a pound last week for red cherries. I haven’t tried them but I hope they’re better than the last 2 batches.

I just bought some pretty good cherries at Whole Foods....reg $4.99 on sale for $2.99 and another 10% off for Prime.

Surprised they would harvest sour cherries that way since they are even more fragile than regular cherries, but I suppose if they’re being turned into pie filling right away it wouldn’t matter so much.

I'm not sure how much she paid, but my better half picked up some excellent bing cherries from our local, Bay Area, Costco.

$8.99 for a 3 pound clamshell, or peel top container.

Our friend shared some of these US cherries with us ..
She bought in bulk , 5 kg , for S$94 plus tax ( GST ) direct from a supplier .

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Had some of these Bings