What's the best way to cut and eat a pomegranate?

This is the best way I’ve found.

The method I use was taught to me by a guy who grew up in the Middle East where Pomegranates are available pretty much all year round. It was also featured on Martha Stewart.

Get a bowl of water. Score the skin so that you can pull it apart into two halves.

Take a wooden spoon ( or anything with a broad flat surface) Holding one half of the Pom with fingers spread apart over the bowl, start giving it firm thwacks and the seeds will begin falling out into the bowl of water.

You do get some pith but it’s minimal. Keep whacking away at each half until all the red seeds are in the water. The pith floats on top of the water making it easy to separate from the seeds in the bottom of the bowl.

It takes longer to describe than it does to do it. The whole thing takes about 10 seconds.

YouTube has clips showing how to do this.

Cut it around the center, not lengthwise across the stem. Rip it apart then knock it against the side of a bowl.

@Buttonstc Can you give me a link to YouTube video? Or tell me what search string would you use? Thx.

I have seen the method described by @Buttonstc and it works like a charm.

@2davidc8

Input into YT search “deseed pomegranate wooden spoon”

The second vid by Natural Marketer is narrated, the first one is not.

I noticed that neither of them used water in the bowl but I always do because it’s easier to separate out the pith because it floats whereas the seeds do not.

Also, to minimize juice splatter, I hold the Pom as close to the surface of the water as possible.

And as someone else mentioned, score at the equator of the fruit rather than pole to pole.

Enjoy :)

Awesome, everybody, it works!! There is still some splatter, but OK, I can deal with that. Using water in the bowl helps, as @Buttonstc suggested, and also doing it in a large deep sink.

Sometimes when scoring the skin to enable taking it apart in halves, if the cuts are not shallow enough, some of the seeds get cut = more splatter.

Generally whole seeds stay that way and don’t splatter much.

It’s a delicate balance :)

Nowadays, I generally just buy the juice, Pom Wonderful, as I’m not overly fond of eating the seeds :) The only exception is if I want the beautiful ruby seeds to pretty up a salad.

@Buttonstc Yes, the seeds are wonderful in salads, both green salads and fruit salads.