How do I eat a pomegranate without making a mess?

Take off all your clothes, climb into bathtub or go outside. Then hose or shower off. The other alternative is to chew hard and then swallow the seeds. Good roughage.

I buy the juice. :)

It’s the Halloween season. I don’t understand your problem.

Put a bowl or colander in your sink and open the pom under running water, the seeds will come out easier.

Just let ‘er rip! Put on an old funky T-shirt, some old sweats/jeans and look at it as an excercise is getting out of any anal OCD about getting dirty.

I know you engineer types, ya gotta learn to let GO a little more! lolol ;-)

Be FREE with your fruit eating experience, embrace the totality of the Pomegranite!
Be at ONE with it! haha

It is suggested to open it in a bowl of cold water once you have cut it open. This will minimize some of the mess. Swallow the seeds after chewing on them, like @gailcalled suggested.

I grew up with a pomegranate tree in our backyard. My friends and I loved eating them. We would smash them on the concrete patio to open them. My mother was furious with us when we did this because it would stain the concrete. We had a good time with them, though. =)

Read this, simply for the cute factor…

I’d be willing to go outside if it wasn’t near freezing with a chance of snow.

I cut off the top and bottoms, then sliced it into 6 wedges. I turned each wedge inside out and let the seeds fall into a bowl. I think it was the turning inside out that made the mess.

I have 3 more to play with and will try the water trick another day. If that doesn’t work, I might just set one out on the backstop out back, pop it with a .22 Stinger from a safe distance, and let the neighborhood critters medicate their prostates with the residue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHyqoeB0Wlk

Maybe you should just go for a Pomagranite juice enema, hone in on the target area. It’s a shortcut! lolol

Obviously, @worriedguy , you have a little too much time on your hands. I appreciate that you amuse me with your silly fruit antics! ;-D

@worriedguy: get yourself some Pomegranate syrup too to eat on lamb, ice cream, pork, ice cream and mixed in seltzer water. Yum!

@Coloma If I warm it to body temp first, does it lose its magic prostate protecting properties?
Actually it’s a little late for me. If I really wanted to give my prostate a pomegranate washing I’d need to ship the juice to the local hospital’s bio-waste disposal unit.

@Neizvestnaya Sounds delicious.

@worriedguy “I cut off the top and bottoms, then sliced it into 6 wedges.” Personally, I’ve never cut up a pomegranate; I’ve simply worked a bit of the outer shell off, then peeled it. I eat the seeds as I go, and I peel away the inner white stuff as I expose it. I also pull away the outer shell as necessary to progress further. It’s probably not the most efficient method if you need a bunch of seeds to make something, but it works wonderfully for a snack. I’ve never had any trouble with messes doing it this way since all of the juice makes it directly into my mouth.

I didn’t realize it was pomegranate season already. Now I really want to get one.

@bobbinhood I’ll give that method a try. Thanks.

Peel slowly. Eat the seeds. The battle to get inside is more than half the fun. Much like @bobbinhood does. ^_^

I just start peeling he whole thing and pluck of each of the seeds into a bowl, it makes the least amount of mess this way. The hardest part is getting it started without puncturing one of the seeds but after you start peeling you are able to then pull the sections apart and pluck the seeds more easily

Eat it naked.
Just sayin’.

@Ayesha: Check first answer.

@gailcalled I missed that! Great answer.
A lot better than mine.

I do it shirtless in the kitchen sink in a big bowl.

Let’s assume for a moment the premise of lower prostate cancer death rates due to eating pomegranates is true. Could it be because more of the men die violent deaths at the hands of their spouses upon seeing the state of the kitchen post-pom?

@worriedguy: My early morning eyes read “post-porn.” Perhaps dying oneself red with an edible dye does lead to interesting exercise units.

edit: “dyeing”