![]() The instructions mention that sometimes innards will tangle around the gutter. The kids technique seems to be mostly based on splattering the guts as far as possible. Joy Makin’ Mister prefers to go from top to bottom, moving back and forth over the area that he can see. Some notes on technique: I prefer to work from left to right, and top to bottom, doing the quarter of the pumpkin I can see well and then giving it a quarter turn to move onto the next section. If we aren’t careful, I’m going to start liking this activity altogether. The loop tools would help with the detailed bits. I also realized, belatedly, that to really take my pumpkin geekery to the next level, I should have acquired a set of carving tools like this one: This particular activity is not horribly dangerous as power tool usage goes, but there is no such thing as modeling proper safety procedures too often. Remember you also need to use safety glasses and work gloves. My precious cordless drill was invaluable, but you can use any drill. And buy one I did, and today the Dudes and I put it through its paces. I actually put a note on my calendar to buy one for this year, so I wouldn’t have time to lose it or forget its existence by Halloween. Thankfully this carving tool amounts to not only a shortcut, but almost completely eliminates the arm-in-pumpkin aspect. Unfortunately for me, this is the most time consuming part of pumpkin carving. Mostly because I don’t like sticking my arm into the pumpkin to scoop the guts. I enjoy having carved a pumpkin, but I do not like actually carving them. ![]() To test this hypothesis, we purchased The Pumpkin Gutter. Hypothesis: There is no holiday that can’t be improved with power tools.
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