How to Cut a Watermelon

How to Choose a Watermelon

• Give the watermelon "the once over." Look for a firm, symmetrical watermelon that is free from bruises, cuts or dents.
• Lift it up. The watermelon should be heavy for its size. Watermelon is 92% water, therefore most of the weight is water.
• Turn it over. The underside of the watermelon should have a creamy yellow spot indicating where it sat on the ground and ripened in the sun.

How to Cut a Watermelon & How to Remove Watermelon Seeds

How to Cut a Watermelon in Cubes

Cutting up a watermelon is faster and easier than you may think! All you have to do is cut it in a grid pattern, almost like you were making a checkerboard on the surface of the fruit. Cubes will tumble out ready to eat! 

1. Take a quarter watermelon and lay it on the rind with the interior facing up.
2. Place knife about 3/4 inch down from the peak of the wedge. Holding the knife parallel to the far side of the fruit and starting at edge of rind, cut a horizontal line through the fruit all the way down to the rind.
3. Next, place the knife blade 3/4 inch lower and make the same cut. Repeat.
4. Next, turn the fruit to the other side and make the same horizontal cuts.
5. And last, starting at the edge of the rind, make vertical cuts 3/4 inch apart all the way across.
6. Cubes will tumble out ready to eat!

How to Slice a Watermelon into Wedges

1. Take a quarter watermelon and lay it on the rind with the interior facing up. Place knife about 2 inches from end of wedge.
2. Cut off the curved end of the fruit. Place knife about 3/4 to 1 inch (or desired thickness) into fruit and cut straight down.
3. Repeat until entire quarter is in wedges.