diff --git a/src/io/show/AbstractMetabolicModel.jl b/src/io/show/AbstractMetabolicModel.jl
index 155aeb1cd..cc286531c 100644
--- a/src/io/show/AbstractMetabolicModel.jl
+++ b/src/io/show/AbstractMetabolicModel.jl
@@ -4,12 +4,5 @@ $(TYPEDSIGNATURES)
 Pretty printing of everything metabolic-modelish.
 """
 function Base.show(io::Base.IO, ::MIME"text/plain", m::AbstractMetabolicModel)
-    _pretty_print_keyvals(io, "", "Metabolic model of type $(typeof(m))")
-    if n_reactions(m) <= constants.default_stoich_show_size
-        println(io, stoichiometry(m))
-    else # too big to display nicely
-        println(io, "S = [...]")
-    end
-    _pretty_print_keyvals(io, "Number of reactions: ", string(n_reactions(m)))
-    _pretty_print_keyvals(io, "Number of metabolites: ", string(n_metabolites(m)))
+    _pretty_print_keyvals(io, "", "Metabolic model of type $(typeof(m)) with $(n_reactions(m)) reactions and $(n_metabolites(m)) metabolites.")
 end
diff --git a/src/misc/constants.jl b/src/misc/constants.jl
index da21f5e40..183ab4440 100644
--- a/src/misc/constants.jl
+++ b/src/misc/constants.jl
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ A named tuple that contains the magic values that are used globally for
 whatever purposes.
 """
 const constants = (
-    default_stoich_show_size = 50_000,
     default_reaction_bound = 1e3,
     tolerance = 1e-6,
     sampling_keep_iters = 100,