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Default The Humble Grapefruit Spoon

Pennyaline wrote:
> anonymousNetUser wrote:
>> Terry Pulliam Burd wrote:
>>> I was prepping some tomatoes by slicing them in half and removing the
>>> seeds using my favorite tomato de-seeding tool: a grapefruit spoon. It
>>> does a great job of a couple of kitchen chores such as de-seeding
>>> tomatoes and hulling strawberries. I'm sure there are a variety of
>>> kitchen tools that weren't designed for the jobs they get used for in
>>> addition to the jobs they *are* used for - not to mention a variety of
>>> tools that weren't designed to get anywhere near a kitchen, but can be
>>> found in kitchens nonetheless! [Blame Alan a/k/a hahabogus for this
>>> one.]

>>
>> Why remove the seeds? There's so much tomato flavor in the "jelly"
>> around the seeds!
>>
>> Alton Brown would be proud of you: You discovered a "multi-taker" tool.

>
> You mean "multi-tasker."


Yes. Typed too fast, yeah that's it....

>
> And yes, Alton Brown would be proud... proud that you watch his show. He
> uses grapefruit spoons the same way.