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How to Cut a Round Watermelon

Friday, July 30, 2010 at 06:58 AM

Have you noticed that all of the watermelons at the grocery store are round these day?  Gone are the wide oval melons of yesteryear.  You know, like the kind that Jennifer Gray struggled with in that famous Dirty Dancing scene where utters her first words to Patrick Swayze, “I carried a watermelon.”  No more.  Today’s melons are like oversized basketballs.  A little less cumbersome, but still tricky to slice.

I could eat an entire watermelon all by myself.  I love them and my kids do too.  So, we buy one every single week.  This one was only $2.77 at Roche Bros!  I feel great giving my kids so much watermelon since it gets a 94 on the NuVal scale.  Good stuff!

Thanks to a little article I saw in the Boston Globe magazine, I found a new way to slice these new round melons, safely and efficiently.

First you slice off each end.

See how nicely you can then stand your watermelon up?  So stable!

Next you just quarter and slice:

We keep some slices on the rind and cut some into cubes as well.  Just looking at these pictures makes my mouth water!

So now, I need to grab me a slice of watermelon (or maybe the entire thing) and sit down for a screening of Dirty Dancing (a second-half-of-summer tradition).

Happy Weekend everyone!

Posted by: Melissa 6 comments

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6 Comments on “How to Cut a Round Watermelon”

  1. #1 c neroni
    on Jul 30th, 2010 at 9:07 am

    Nice cutting and looks perfectly ripe.

  2. #2 tanyasDailyProductReviews
    on Jul 30th, 2010 at 9:45 am

    you made it look easy! thanks

  3. #3 Lindsay @ The Ketchup Diaries
    on Jul 30th, 2010 at 10:35 am

    Funny…I never even thought about how their shape changed!!

  4. #4 Heather
    on Jul 30th, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    Awesome tip!! I struggled cutting up one of these last night while making the watermelon margaritas I intend to drink at the pool tonight! :)

  5. #5 Barbara
    on Jul 30th, 2010 at 10:18 pm

    Just bought a round watermelon today. Will try it , makes sense.
    And it gets a 94?

  6. #6 Yum Yucky
    on Aug 3rd, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    Aha! I have a big azz watermelon staring at me from the kitchen floor. And now I know how to samurai-sword it to perfection.

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