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Comment on If you wish to color/decorate your pumpkin with the intention of eating the seeds, would it be a good idea to cover the pumpkin with felt instead of painting it?

Sackett@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Why don’t you just remove the seeds before painting it? I’m not a scientist but I’d assume that, depending on what kind of paint you use, it probably wouldn’t leak through the pumpkin rind and contaminate the seeds. But the best way to not even worry about it would be to just remove the seeds first, IMO.

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Once you cut in and/or remove the seeds, they start to go off. You usually only get a week at most.

Painting instead of carving, it’ll last much longer.

Though, part of what makes them fun is their impermanence

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- LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Roast the seeds on a baking sheet and they’ll keep, or refrigerate them if you don’t want to eat them right away. At least then you can see whether they’re going off, rather than just trusting the pumpkin doesn’t start rotting on the inside where it’s not visible before you get round to using them.
  
  Just gut Jack and preserve his innards first, it’s safer.
  
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