[Mopar Man]

I've got eight pumpkins to carve and planned on doing it
Thursday. To save myself from being in a rush I thought I might gut them all tomorrow night. That way when Thursday rolls around all i'll have to do is transfer the patterns and start carving. Does this sound like a good idea?

[Euri]

I've done this myself many times and I think that others have too. I have had a gutted kin up to a week before I carved it, but I would suggest that you spray the inside with lysol/ bleach water after gutting it. You could even transfer patterns a day or two before you carve as well.

I carve pumpkins for our local pumpkin walk and I have about 4 pumpkins with patterns that take about 4-5 hours each to carve (we do lots of celebrity faces). They all have to be ready to go on the same day so you bet that I gut and transfer patterns before hand! Actually, I don't poke patterns at all anymore. I just glue the pattern directly on the pumpkin and when it's dry cut right through the paper.

[Zombie Pumpkins!]

Gutting the pumpkin early will expose it to the outside elements and give mold a slight head start. But you shouldn't me in danger of it drying out since you the rind will still be intact. And if you're only talking about one day in advance or so, that's no time at all. Your idea to pace your gutting, transferring, and carving sounds smart to me.

[Mopar Man]

Well I did it. Gutted all 8 pumpkins and transferred 2 patterns. The pumpkin gutter sure did make it easy..

[shutterbug]

...we gutted ours on the Sunday & were still carving them on Halloween nite with no problem...just remember to put a pce of wrap or cellophane between the lid & pumpkin while the storage is on.That way you wil be able to get the lid off later with no problem.They seem to want to seal them up again...J

[GUS]

Ryan, seeing this I'm thinking your tips area could do with some updating ie patti's cellophane, Saral paper for lots of pumpkins etc, anything that'll give a can do spirit.
I never though of cellophane, it's in every kitchen, hardly specialist!

(members who've purchased product ratings & a few choice reviews) etc,
we also know how you pump items through the us postal system so maybe non-quotes of typical delivery times to the uk for SMALL packages etc to catch dithering buyers!

[Kittie]

We gutted all ours on Sunday before Halloween, treated them with water only (cause they dogs like to munch on them).

And they all made it!

[CombichristGirl]

We gutted all ours on Sunday before Halloween, treated them with water only (cause they dogs like to munch on them).

And they all made it!

that made my day lol