anonymousNetUser wrote:

> Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>> I was prepping some tomatoes by slicing them in half and removing the
>> seeds using my favorite tomato de-seeding tool: a grapefruit spoon. It
>> does a great job of a couple of kitchen chores such as de-seeding
>> tomatoes and hulling strawberries. I'm sure there are a variety of
>> kitchen tools that weren't designed for the jobs they get used for in
>> addition to the jobs they *are* used for - not to mention a variety of
>> tools that weren't designed to get anywhere near a kitchen, but can be
>> found in kitchens nonetheless! [Blame Alan a/k/a hahabogus for this
>> one.]
>
> Why remove the seeds? There's so much tomato flavor in the "jelly"
> around the seeds!

I've never removed a tomato seed in my life, so I wondered about that,
too. Sure, some of them and some of the snot doesn't make it into the
product, but that's not because I've actively *removed* them. Perhaps
we just haven't hit upon certain dishes that require them to be removed.


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