Straight to the Point The best cherry pitter is the $18 OXO Good Grips Cherry Pitter . It’s compact and cleanly cuts through fruit. And OXO’s Quick Release Multi Cherry Pitter can pit six cherries at once. Seeing how far you can spit a cherry pit out of your mouth is at least half the joy of eating one. But if you’re baking with them or using them in a fruit salad, the “pit ‘em in your mouth” method doesn’t work so well.  Pitting cherries by hand can be, well, the pits. It’s a fiddly job—tough to do well, quickly, and cleanly. Cherry pitters can help. While it’s never going to be a mess-free, fast job, the right tool can make it a lot more enjoyable. I recently tested six cherry pitters and confidently recommend four of them. The Tests You can pit cherries by hand, but if you're working with cups of 'em, you'll want to use a cherry pitter. Serious Eats / Rochelle Bilow Cherry Pitting Test: To find the best cherry pitter, you’ve got to pit a lot of cherries!…