How do they get the pips out of an olive???

Question

help its doing my head in!

Answer 1

To make them look like they do from the factory, you need an olive pitter. I don't know what they cost but you can buy cherry pitters from wine making supply houses. I would think pitting them by hand would be so tedious as to require frequent alcoholic refreshments. Then after about 8 you throw away the olives and by a can of the pitted ones and continue drinking.

If I was forced to do them by hand I would simply take a paring knife and slice all the way around and separate. You'd have half olives but the pit would be gone.

Answer 2

I have always wondered about that myself. Some people use the blade of the knife to flatten and depit the olives, I think this messes it up though. Others use small hand pitters. Go the easy way and buy pitless ones - already done!

Answer 3

Use an olive destoner obtainable at a decent cookware shop or buy olives already destoned.