ive always just used my hands, but once or twice (after using my hands and stemming and seeding it) ive gone over it with scizzors or a razor (the kind for shaving from the barber shop type things) and then, if it's more than one bowl of greens, i'll just use my driver's license or something to scrape it into the baggie/tupperware. it's always been fine for smoking in a bowl.