On Aug 5, 10:29*pm, 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.]
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
> --
> "If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
> old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
> waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."
>
> -- Duncan Hines
>
> To reply, replace "meatloaf" with "cox"

I have one grapefruit spoon in the drawer which I kept from an old,
cheap stainless set - I use it only for deseeding cucumbers. It's
perfect for that. I have a strawberry huller, metal, which I love.
It's just like the one my grandma had. And I just squeeze tomatoes to
get the seeds out, but usually I just leave them in.

N.