Cutting gem squash without risking amputation - how ?

[saor]

Gem squash for me has a poor ROI for a vegetable. They're hard as rock so you dull your blade opening them and they only taste good if they're loaded with sugar and butter which defeats the vegetableyness of them. I rather avoid.

Yeah...if you're buying that mass-grown ball of unexciting sold in most supermarkets it's nothing special, but eat a squash grown from heirloom seeds and it's as delicious. Something like:

http://livingseeds.co.za/green-hubbard, or
http://livingseeds.co.za/rolet-gem

One of the top 3 South African heirloom varieties. This humble little squash is a huge hit in Europe and especially Germany where they are so expensive that they are only offered in high class restaurants. If you grow your own, be prepared to never want to subject yourself to the torture of tasteless, colourless, store-bought, hybrid Gems again.

 

[MickeyD]

I like eating gem squash skins as well...

 

[AntiGanda]

I know what you mean, it is a risky process. Personally I'd cook and then cut after when they're nice n soft.

They might explode in the microwave.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Yeah...if you're buying that mass-grown ball of unexciting sold in most supermarkets it's nothing special, but eat a squash grown from heirloom seeds and it's as delicious. Something like:

http://livingseeds.co.za/green-hubbard, or
http://livingseeds.co.za/rolet-gem

This!

 

[ponder]

Geez c'mon people it's not that hard.

 

[Carol35]

I like eating gem squash skins as well...

Haha, i eat them too, but only if they are soft.

Grant, in future, rather just get the ones already cut, much easier and less dangerous

 

[bokdrol]

Sissies!

A good old breadknife does the trick.

 

[Hectic]

Love my gems with sweetcorn in it.

 

[bokdrol]

Love mine with beetroot salad in them. My whole family does this for some reason.

 

[Magnum]

Geez c'mon people it's not that hard.

The splitting, The amputation or the gem-squash?

 

[cerebus]

Sissies!

A good old breadknife does the trick.

Is that how you ruined your bread knives?

 

[bokdrol]

Is that how you ruined your bread knives?

Lol! No, I sawed off some shrub branches in the garden.

 

[cerebus]

Lol! No, I sawed off some shrub branches in the garden.

I would have ripped the telephone out of the wall and clubbed you with it.

 

[bokdrol]

Cook first, then cut. Why would you want them cut prior to cooking anyway...unless you're stuffing them?

But they explode< don't they?

 

[satanboy]

I buy them already halved.

 

[longboy]

I keep a hacksaw blade for my pumpkins and squashes.

 

[cerebus]

But they explode< don't they?

Um...... no. Maybe if you equate cooking with microwaving.

 

[ice_cubes]

half cook ---take them out---cut---put them back & finish cooking?

 

[I.am.Sam]

I buy them already halved.

some people just want the world to burn

 

[Seriously]

COOK THEM FIRST!