Thank you all for the responses!
Jadae, I bought some dental tools which I am sure will work better than the current steak knife that I use.
Jim, I agree with your assessment of the least three favorite chores.
The following link has my blender procedures.
Just saw this post…Tom said he uses a blender with a DULL blade (dulls down a new blade before using it), lots of water, and spins for 1 minute and 15 seconds then dumps the container through a series of different sized screens to obtain the seeds.