Abstract: There is provided a culinary press 1 including first and second handle members 2, 4, between which is provided a food pressing lever 14 pivotably connected at one end to the second handle member 4, an actuator 16 connected to the first handle member 2 acting on the other end of the lever 14.

Abstract: A support device for a pair of vegetable steamers comprising a pillar (32,34) having at one end a support (38) for the base of an upper vegetable steamer (10a) and at its other end having means (60) to attach to a lower vegetable steamer (10b) so that the pillar is upstanding from the base of that lower vegetable steamer, the other end of the pillar thus extending above the lower vegetable steamer to support the upper vegetable steamer above the lower vegetable steamer in a vertical manner.

Abstract: A cherry pitter comprising a pitting station (24) adapted to support a cherry (88) having an opening 84 sized to allow passage of a pit (85), but not the cherry (88). A pit ejector (26) adapted to reciprocate along a longitudinal axis includes an elongate punch having a number of arms (50, 52, 54, 56) radiating out from the longitudinal axis, each arm extending beyond the proximal end of the punch to form a cruciform cross-section. One of the arms (56) has a substantially flat profile and the other three arms (50, 52, 54) have an undercut portion (66) of the same order of axial length as the diameter of a typical cherry. The punch is oriented so that the flat arm (56) projects towards a delivery passage (22). The delivery passage (22) has an arcuate channel that aligns the cherries and delivers them to the pitting station (24) one at a time. The elongate punch drives into the cherry (86) and pushes the pit through the outer flesh of the cherry (86) and through the opening (84) and into a pit chamber (94).