Cutting A Watermelon

      I always flip through the weekly sales flyer for the local grocery before I make my lunch and dinner menus for the week.   I was excited to see that watermelons were on-sale! I didn't realize I wanted watermelon so badly until I saw it on-sale and then it was game-on.

    Once I got it home and got the groceries away, I wanted to start cutting it. I'm not having a party- just wanting it to snack on in this heat wave we got going on, so I didn't want to cut it in fancy style, just cubes. I watch a lot of Food Network T.V. and have noticed they cut it differently than how I normally cut my melons. Well, I tried two (and a half) of the different styles, because I wanted to find the easiest way to get bite-sized chunks.

Method 1: Cutting the Rind off all the way around.

I started by cutting the melon in half, and then cutting the rind off in chunks as you see above. I then sliced the fruit down into the width I wanted my pieces. I paid a couple "strips" down, and chopped them making  the square sizes I wanted. POOF! Almost a complete half of perfect watermelon bites, with very little wasted on the rind.

Method 2: Halve the Half

Halve each half of the watermelon (haha!) Glide your knife all-the-way through the melon as close to the rind as possible. (Be careful, and try going half way and then start from the other end to meet in the middle.)

Thatseemed to waste a lot more of the perfectly good fruit, so I tried halving it again, and "skinning" it that way.

Method 2.5: Same as above, just thinner halfs.

 It appears to have gotten more of the fruit, but if these were my only options I'd go with Method 1 every time. It allowed me to waste only the bare minimum amount fruit, so I get to enjoy that much more of it!

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I wish I could tell you (and show you) that I am an expert watermelon cutter, (clearly) I'm not...so check out these blogs for other easy Watermelon Cutting tips:

Pink Suede Shoe - Method 1 Above.
Fab Food - Cutting in Cubes or Wedges
Iowa Girl Eats - Slices to Cubes