How to Clean Out a Pumpkin

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Vincent Laporta on behalf of Expert Village. Next we're going to start scooping the inside of our pumpkin. You can use a metal spoon. I like to use this here because it's made for it and it's also very durable. You can get really behind it and start scraping for thickness. Like I said, you want to get it to about an inch thick when you're doing the actual face. Always remember, keep the tooth area towards you so you know the part that you're going to really dig at to make it an inch thick. Let me get started here. It's going to be all messy and cold. There's going to be a lot of seeds, veins. It's not the greatest feeling, but we want to carve a pumpkin. You can have your kids do this. It's not really anything they can break, but when it comes to thickness of the pumpkin that's something that you step in. This is why it's slimy. You could have the seeds clean up the seeds for you and you can always roast the seeds later. That's another clip in future ones down the line. As we just keep digging it will come to an end eventually. What I'm doing now is I'm scrapping the side walls of the pumpkin. I'm not really digging in, but I want to get all the veins that are holding the seeds. I want to get all those out so when you reach in you just pull them all out. They're nice size seeds. Those will be good for roasting later. Try not to scrape too much near the lid because you run a risk of actually taking the angle away. Just be careful when you get to the top out of the lid, because since you already cut a hole into the pumpkin, you could also crack it. Just to very lightly like just around the edge. That's about it. This is the thickness we're looking for. About an inch. That's perfect for carving. You can see it's all cleaned out. Now, we're going to determine the front thickness of the pumpkin itself."