25 Apr 14 Jackie P (Australia - temperate climate)
To remove the seed leaving a full fruit you should take a thin slice from the base of the fruit and push the seed out with a chopstick from the thick end to the pointy end. The seed will gently part the petals and pop through. Easy as! I can seed a bowl of fruit in less than five minutes.
31 Jan 14 Ian Watts (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
It's fussy work for you and very tedious but if you'd like to try this method. My wife, Janine and I were shown the following: Get the stem of a broken umbrella; push that up through the petals; the seed pod (calyx) will pop through.
When I was a child my father made a "Rosella de-leafer" by attaching an empty bullet casing to a handle - it worked well & I still have it. Maybe you could try an apple corer?
My dad did the same for my mum out of a piece of metal gal tube or stainless tube (I think it was out of a bicycle pump??) He put a bit of tube over it so it wasn't sharp for a handle, works a treat. I still have the one that he made for me as well.
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