Hi Janet. Thank you for the photos. I hope it goes well. I agree about the skepticism. If the method doesn't work, it could be a function of the cultivars they have over there being a bit different.
I currently use a cheap, handheld butane torch from Amazon. It takes maybe a minute per fruit. I first blast one end of the fruit with the torch, then insert a metal skewer at the point where the flame was applied. Once the fruit is on the skewer I roast it like a marshmallow. There's been times where I've bitten into one that seems 'done' from this method and in fact it was not. As a result I don't take for granted that the glochids are in fact all gone. The problem is that the fruit I harvest has to go into a bag for transport, and that causes them to impale each other with their glochids. So even avoiding the 'dots' where the glochids protrude from, if I don't treat the fruit first I can still get jabbed.
Once I have backyard plants to harvest from, hopefully I won't need to have the fruits touch each other after harvest and that problem will be solved.