For Thanksgiving, my mother-in-law provided me with a large bowl and a towel over my clothes (so it wouldn't splatter everywhere), as well as a small bowl for the seeds.Oh, and I can't forget the rubber gloves that she forced over my fingers so they wouldn't stain.
My hand-modeling career was in desperate jeopardy, due to those pomegranates. Thanks to Omi (our nickname for Doug's mom), my hands were spot-free.
Then I came home and blissfully offered to peel a pomegranate for a friend, while chatting away with her at her home. She filled a medium bowl full of water. I was seriously confused.
Taking pity on me, she showed me that if you cut it apart, then plunge it into the water to ruthlessly break it apart, there is no mess. Better yet - the seeds float to the bottom, and the white stuff floats to the top.
I know, "white stuff"? Very technical.
But then you can skim the stuff you don't want off the top, drain the bowl, and enjoy. Of course, you could also cut the top (the flower) off, cut off the bottom, score along all the ridges, and then break it open...but the water way is so fast! And easy, I'm totally into easy.
And no stained fingers, even without gloves. Again, how did I not know this? I don't know. But now I do - and so do you. So enjoy a pomegranate!
I'm with you, no one having told me how to de-seed a pomegranate other than the hard way. I have another method - score it around the equator, twist it apart, then hold it over a bowl and smack the daylights (or rather, the seeds) out of it with a wooden spoon (there's a demo on youtube). All the seeds come out, as does some frustration :) I bet your boys would love this way too. I shall have to try the bowl method as well. Seems calmer :D
ReplyDeleteOh. My. Gosh. I TRIED to tell my mom about it but she of course poo-pooed it because that's what she does. God bless her. But I've known how for a couple years now!! I swear! And I just discovered something else the other day...Martha Stewarts web-site has a cooking basics thing called....wait for it....How To Cook. Hahaha. And it has a demo on, among other things, how to properly seed a pomegranate. Yay!
ReplyDeleteThat is Hilarious. I'll have to check that out.
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