What do I do with a fresh pomegranate?

I'd just been using a big wooden spoon.

Make fesenjan (duck with pomegranate and walnuts).
― aldo_cowpat

this is made with pomegranate juice (from a bottle) not the fruit (and with chicken, unless you are at a fancy restaurant for westernized nouveau cuisine)

we break these open with our hands and scoop the seeds into a bowl with a spoon. then you sprinkle the pile of seeds with salt (maybe a tablespoon for a cereal bowl worth). then you eat it with a spoon

contrary to what ppl hawking their cookbook will tell you, i don’t think there’s any particular trick to scooping it out cleanly. just practice, like any other skill

the bowl of water trick will definitely keep the juice off your shirt while you figure it out, though!