Cookaholics Bulletin Board

All,

Lately I've been making a bunch of recipes which involve hollowing out and stuffing vegetables, including squash, eggplants, tomatoes and cucumbers. I'm going to buy a melon-baller for myself, but I was wondering, are there other tools which work well for hollowing out vegetables? Like, what about long skinny ones? Tomatoes?

I use the melon baller for melons, apple, and pears. I use a table spoon for cukes and zukes.

I have two old grapefruit spoons. Remember them? They work wonders with almost everything, epecially soft things like tomatoes.
fitzie

I mostly use a melon baller (thinner, and therefore "sharper") than a spoon. I like the idea of a grapefruit spoon. May have to find one of those.

Amy

If you can get an old grapefruit spoon they are better imho. The new ones seem to be less sharp....probably due to some lawsuit!
I used a paring sized tomato knife today to remove seeds from a cucumber, it's not ideal but it worked.

Melon baller and gratefruit spoon here.

Laurie

Wouldn't be without grapefruit spoons even when it's not citrus season. They nest next to my stainless all year long. Great for seeding misc veggies/fruits and for scraping italian ice.

Yeah, I have a grapefruit spoon. However, it has a sharp point, which is difficult if I'm trying to hollow something out and NOT go through the bottom.