Looks like im going to have alot of cherries and grapes this year. I would like to make juice out of them. What is the best method? Steam juicer, cold press juicer, a fruit press? Down fall of the cold press juicer is I would probably have to pit all the cherries first but not with a steam juicer?
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i have a steam juicer and it works good but if you want a little of the pulp , so less is wasted, put the cooked fruit in a large, fine sieve over a large bowl and press the fruit though with a wooden spoon. it will taste richer, have some texture and have alot less waste. i even do it with unpitted sour cherries, dumping the pits between batches. you can also mash the berries in a steam juicer and have the same result but the pulp will clog the spigot up.
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you ever figure out a good juicer for cherries? its a few years off till im at an issue but i enjoy tartcherry juice and have a ton of cherry bushes, and just was thinking if there was a way to do it without pitting 
I’ve got an electric spinner and an apple press. The electric gadget is good for small batches, but is a pain to clean up. If you have a lot the apple press is quick and easy. When done just spray it off with the garden hose.
I’d like to hear what people think about cold press and steamers.
FWIW, I bought what I believe is being called the “electric spinner” type off Amazon. I’d seen this model for sale for as high as Cdn $115 (US ~$90) area, and when a returned one marked “poor” condition by Amazon for sale for $44 (US ~$30) I bought it having nothing to lose at that price. It turned out to be brand new never once used, but had a faulty connection internally I repaired…
I have hardy apples (Goodlands- #1 brand in my region of 4b/4a Canada) and used that machine and huge amounts of patience to make ~3gal of amazingly tasty apple juice which settle to leave a foamy rich applesauce on top I ate with a spoon as a delicacy… lol. It left a lot of pulp, which I then mixed with nuts, raisins, flour etc and made muffins with.
FWIW, I was being cautious (superstitious?) with rumours of the seeds being unhealthy, so I cored the apples first.
I would try using a plastic pitting tool (you can get them to pit a half dozen at a time) on sour cherries. Key word try, as the look of the device looks like it woould work best with the firmer swet cherry, and less well with a soft sour cherry.
I think that pitted cherries might work even better than apples, but I don’t yet have enough Cupids to bother finding additional ways to use them. Cherry pitter on Amazon - for ~ US $10 to your door…
Pears- at least the ones I have access to, would work better than apples. When ripe far more juice and less pulp.
Grapes better than any of the others.
But it’s not a full recommendation. It’s extremely tedious.
Still this is my preference-
- as anything related to cooking loses majority of the Vit C, in my reading. Vit C is chemically “ruined” by anything over 150*F, though all minerals (lots of potassium in tart cherries) remains in full.