Pomegranates

[ann_h]

What is the most efficient way to eat a pomegranate?

[beejaybee]

My mum used to cut it in half, & use a pin or a tooth pick to get the little bits out.

[Snowy Owl]

Cut it in half along the equator, hold each half over a bowl and hit the outside hard with something like a rolling pin. If it is ripe, the seeds will fall out! Quicker, less messy and easier than the pin method. Thank Nigella for this, not me!

[Ethel]

Snowy owl - you're supposed to eat the seeds.

[missmoore]

I'd say pomegranates are less a foodstuff and more a hobbie...

[missmoore]

can't believe i spelled hobby with an 'ie'. am shamed...

[tictactoe]

never mind missmoore...you were probably thinking of Holly Hobbie!! lol ;o)

Ethel, You are joking about Snowy Owl? Don't think for one minute SO was throwing them away, and eating the bitter pith!!

[shaneystar2]

Pomegranates are lovely but messy....i used to love them as a child ....do yourself a favour and buy pomegranate juice instead !

[Ausf-A]

Like Indian/Pakistani mangoes, pomegranates should be eaten in the bath.

[Cetti]

The Snowy Owl's (via Nigella) method is the best. It saves endlessy picking out each seed with a pin as we did as kids.

Pomegrate (is that how it's spelt shanystar?) is the simplest though.

[Chappers]

Cut open, use your hands to break the seeds into a bowl and just get stuck in...pomegranates are fiddly and messy things to eat, don't be gentle!

[violetblue]

A friend of mine from Pakistan, seeing me wrestle with a pomegranate and a fork, said British people ate pomegranates in a wimpish way; he said the thing to do is just to smash it against a wall and get stuck into eating each half - quickly!