Miche wrote:
> In article
> >,
> RichD > wrote:
>
>> I like pomegranates, but how the heck do you
>> separate out the seeds? It's such a chore, and
>> then you have to wash out the spray stains...
>
> Score the skin deeply and separate into sections. Immerse in a bowl
> of water and separate the seeds out with your fingers. They sink,
> the pith floats.
>
> That's the way I did it the one and only time I've eaten a
> pomegranate.
>
> Next time I'll try Nigella Lawson's method -- cut it in half around
> the "equator". Hold the hemisphere seeds downwards over a sieve, and
> "spank" it firmly with a wooden spoon. Supposedly removes the seeds
> with very little pith coming out too.

When I was a child, pomegrantes were in the shops in late October. We used
to cut them in half and eat the seeds with a pin