WestmarkOlivus Olive Stoner

I harvest and process my own olives so of course they all come with pits. That's okay. I've yet to swallow a pit. However in the past when I wanted to make tapenade I had to laboriously and tediously slice the meat of the olives from the pits. It was indeed the pits! (Sorry.)So I purchased this handy-dandy "Westmark MATFER BOURGEAT Olive Stoner." It works fine and cuts the prep time for the tapenade in half. However there is one small problem. This marvel of German engineering zips the pit out smartly but on the bottom side of the bit there remains a kind of small cap of olive. So unless I cut that off, there is some small waste of olive. (I did cut them off.)I should point out that I used the device on processed olives. Perhaps on fresh from the tree olives the experience will be different. I will try the pitter on next year's crop.For now I can say the product is worth the plastic. Five stars.--Dennis Littrell, author of "The World Is Not as We Think It Is"