"Sheldon" wrote in message
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raeannsimpson wrote:

i freeze mine also. never heard or seen anyone put them in salads. i
have to pick all the seeds out before i can eat them cause of health
reasons, so i don't eat that often myself.

That would be tedious and not much okra would be left after seeding.
When harvested young the seeds are not very seedy (nor the pods very
slimey), they're more a gelatinous mass like very yound cucumber
seeds... and when cooked in soups and stews the seeds kind of
disintegrate. I suppose you can push raw okra through a Foley food
mill to remove the seeds, but then what would be the point, all you'd
have is green goo... kind of like shaving gel... how about an okra
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i mainly use them in soups, so i don't have to deal with the seeds much. i
pick my okra kinda young too, as you mentioned, for that reason also. I
leave a few to mature more, and fry those on occasion for my hubby and son.
When "de-seeding" last year, i got smarter than the year b4 and took a knife
with a small thin blade, cut the top off, and just used the knife to kinda
core the okra out. left more okra and less mess too.