If at first you don't succeed...

...use a bigger knife.

So, today was my first time cooking some pumpkin (I'll write tomorrow what I did with it :P), I knew it had a hard shell, but no one told me how hard it was, I thought it would be like a watermelon or maybe a little harder.  At first I picked a thin but sharp knife and thought that it would be easy, well, wrong, when I was trying to cut trough it I thought for a moment that it would break if I did a wrong move, so I did the best thing I could think of, picked a bigger and stronger knife, it felt weird because I knew it was not cutting the shell, but breaking it, well, it got the job done and I continued with what I was going to do. But still, it was too damn hard, and thankfully there was not an accident while cutting it :P