'Tis the season -- for watermelon, that is. And because I love watermelon, we're going to have an extravaganza of three videos on cutting the suckers. (None of these are exactly the way I cut them, since I tend to buy the smaller, round, seedless "personal" watermelons. But the last two videos are pretty close.) First though, we'll start with one of the those "50 People Try to..." videos from Epicurious.com. Not shockingly, what these people are flailingly trying to do is cut a watermelon. The fun of the video aside, this is the best instruction at the end for how to cut a watermelon in wedges. This next video is short, only about a minute, and comes from The Racheal Ray Show. It's close to how I've been cutting my watermelons, though with a couple of slight differences. The first is that they're using a bigger watermelon that I use, but it's still basically round, like mine. The other is that her Senior Culinary Producer is showing how to cut spears, and I like cubes. So, I just easily slice the rinds off the ends and then easily cut the spears in to cubes. Finally, this third video is a new way I've learned, and definitely weird on the surface, but I've been trying lately with reasonable success. I'm not sure if it's faster or better than my "lattice" version above, but it may be, and it's fun. It comes from Alton Brown. This is for a regular watermelon, but works just as well with one of my round fellows. And it uses...a cheese slicer! (Hey, I told you it was weird.) And then I turn each wheel into cubes by making cross-lattice cuts. I haven't mastered a smooth move with the cheese slicer, but I'm getting better. And if I leave too much watermelon on the rind -- that's fine, I just snack on it while continuing with the cutting. By the way, if you want to try the last method, but don't have a cheese slicer, this is the one I got here from Amazon. It's currently being sold for $12, which is 40% its regular price. It has 4.3 stars out of 5, and I like it because the screws on the side make it easy to remove the guide (which is necessary to take off, in order to use for slicing off the watermelon rinds.)
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