How do I carve a pumpkin and also cook its flesh?

Even if you were to cook the pumpkin up whole, without cutting it, you'd have the problem with the innards cooking while the pumpkin cooks.

I recommend to cut up the entire pumpkin.

I throw mine into the crockpot to cook all day long, Grind up, and then drain over a cheesecloth (or coffee filter) to get your pumpkin to the consistency of canned pumpkin

GL

personally, i would run my knife (from top to bottom) removing the skin (kinda like when you cut up a melon) and then cut it in half and remove any seeds and other stuff from the inside. that way now you have just the fleshy part of the pumpkin and you can do what ever you want with it

just cut the top of and with a knife or shaver shave the inside flesh out, it'll be hard but if you don't want to cut the pumpkin in half this is the way to do it

that sounds so barbaric...it's kinda funny