I adore pomegranates, I know they are messy to eat, but I enjoy them all the same. I liken them to natures own rubic cubes.
They are delicious, and I am actually, after a few years, getting pretty good at selecting the juicy and ripe ones.
I am curious how other dopers go about eating one of these wonders.
Do you cut it? Which way end to end, or across the middle? And then how? Bowl? Plate? How much paper towel is involved?
I’m wondering if there isn’t a better way than the messy undertaking my dining seems to be. Not that it deters me in anyway.
I score it in three or four or five places along the skin, cutting just through the rind but not deep enough to catch any of the seeds. Then pry it apart with my fingers and begin the long task of popping out the seeds from the pith. I usually do them all at once and drop them into a bowl so I can sit and enjoy them without the added frustration of trying to ferret the little staining bastards out from their intricately formed hiding places.
When I eat a pomegranate, I go for full mess factor. I usually cut it in half to start, then tear into it, with a paper towel nearby to hold rind scraps, etc.
I must be strange, but I also eat the seeds. Haven’t keeled over dead yet.
It generally involves putting on old clothing, preparing a wide area with old towels, and donning rubber gloves. The gloves are a habit from when I was a kid and I shredded my cuticles - p. juice would leave my fingers black for days.
I then slice it open enough to tear it apart with my hands. I put it in a huge salad bowl, get more towels, and slurp and scarf away.
Sometimes I sweallow the seeds, sometimes I don’t. Doesn’t seem to affect me one way or another that I’ve noticed.
Yum!
The farmers markets around here often have pomegranate juice, which is marvelous but very intense.
I have a pomegranate tree in my front yard, but the fruits bust open before they are truly edible.
I assume they are spitting out the seeds after they suck the juice off them. I made a cheesecake and decorated it with pomegranate. It had never occured to me that folks would spit out the seeds, but that’s exactly what they did.
Ah, yes. Pomegranite eating, a truly indulgent and sensuous experience.
Start with one sharp knife, a bowl and about 5 paper towels. Cut the fruit into quarters, place quarters in bowl. Grab bowl and paper towels, seat self comfortably on couch in front of TV playing a great old black & white 40’s movie. (Preferably with Bette Davis or Cary Grant).
Pick the seeds out as best you can. Pull the rind back to release more seeds, and pull the “clump” of seeds away from the rind, then pick the seeds off and continue to eat. Use paper towels to hold the white pith and to wipe your hands frequently. Ignore comments from husband about the messiness factor.
A friend of mine, had a pomegranate tree (or was it a big bush?) outside his house. We used to pick em, and just break 'em open on somne hard corner; usually the edge of the porch. Messy? Yes, but it was a lot of fun.
