Every pomegranate is composed of exactly 840 seeds. To extract every last sweet morsel, you could either spend a half hour picking at the husk with crimson-stained fingers or just knock them clean out of their skin with the ART.
The Arils Removal Tool (ART) from the Shohan company comprises a collection cup, grate and cover. After splitting and de-crowning a pomegranate, you set the half atop the grate which sits over the collection bowl, cover it, and rap soundly with a heavy spoon. This knocks the arils (the seed itself and the red, fleshy sac it sits in) free of the pith, allowing them to pass through the grate to the collection cup. The ART retails for $US16 on EBay. [Shoham via Book of Joe]
jj
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 9:04 AMOr… Save the 16 bucks….and just use a spoon tapping half the pomegranite over a bowl. Its extra crap no one needs like a strawberry stem remover,A lemon segmenter, a mangoe de stoner, etc Seriously! Get a good pairing knife…. With that said….they do make good options for unthoughtful xmas gifts.
Jackson Bison
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 9:55 AMInsightful.
Andy
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 11:03 AMEach one has 840 seeds? I don’t think so: http://www.aquaphoenix.com/misc/pomegranate/
Mitch Bus
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:28 PMMaybe I’m just sheltered, but I’ve never had a pomegranate, nor seen one in the flesh. Ever.
Where exactly do they sell them..?
Michael
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:47 PMYou can find the in the Produce department of your Local Woolies and possibly at Coles, but those one will probably be moldy and green, but I guess you ask for the price to come down down down.