How to cut a watermelon correctly? What can be done from a watermelon, how to decorate a watermelon with your own hands?

Watermelon is not only a juicy and delicious fruit, it is a beautiful decoration of both a festive and a everyday table. Watermelon can be on barbecue, alcohol and even hookah. Interesting methods and tips are described in this article.

How to beautifully cut the watermelon on the festive table?

The watermelon lends itself to cutting and cutting many beautiful figures from it. This feature allows you to serve the most beautiful dishes of fruits, cheeses, sweets and other snacks. He is often served instead of tea guests on the festive table.

Interesting, but watermelon is a berry, although in its biological qualities it is similar to a vegetable, and the sweetness and taste of the watermelon appear as a fruit and is fed for dessert.

The watermelon can simply be cut with a knife, or you can cut with a special figure tool into balls, hearts and stars. Such figures are not only tasty, but also pleasant to eat at events and just at home for a variety and aesthetic pleasure.

In the modern world, there is also such an art as “carving”. Carving is the ability to make a beautiful and original clipping on fruits and vegetables, including watermelon.

An unusual cutting of watermelon will be able to surprise guests at the festive table. Each family necessarily has its own individual way of serving a watermelon, but in any case it is worth taking into account that it is eaten without peel and seeds.

The easiest way to serve watermelon is convenient and beautiful - peel the seeds, cut off the peel and cut into cubes.Such a watermelon is usually served on a wide dish, and everyone takes it with a fork.

On the other hand, you can make sure that your watermelon is original and beautiful. To do this, you can purchase a special knife or just have molds for baking cookies.

The simplest ones will come in handy forms of the heart, stars, droplets and others.Such molds are applied to the pulp of the cut off of the watermelon.

A small press of hand, the figured pulp of the watermelon is separated from the rest of the pulp. Such beautiful watermelon figures can be served with other fruits, cheese and sweets.

Finely sliced \u200b\u200bwith cubes and other figures of watermelon can be easily served in:

• cocktails
• fruit salads
• in the form of canapes
• on desserts
• on fruit cakes
• in salads

Original supply of watermelon, how beautifully to serve watermelon?

In addition to standard simple strits, there are a number of ways to original and beautifully present a watermelon for guests on the table. For this, both special knives and spoons, and ingenuity are useful.

Watermelon is a beautiful platform for the work of the cook, which provides the opportunity to make the supply of berries unusual and original.

The watermelon is often served not in its pure form, but with many additives:

• cheese
• berries
• fruit
• jam
• honey
• nuts
• sugar powder
• liquid chocolate
• sweet sauces
• yogurt

Some winning and unusual ways to serve watermelons to the festive table:

Watermelon Pimbir -this is a symbolic name for the feed of the berry. To do this, cut off vertically or horizontally a fairly thick dissipation of watermelon. After that, a large skibe should be divided into several small beautiful triangular shape.

In such a piece, a wooden stick from ice cream is inserted into a crust (it is not cut). Such skibers can simply be served on a wide dish.

It is convenient to take them in the place of the guest by the place. Also, such a piece can be dipped in chocolate in advance and let it harden in the refrigerator

Another unusual way to serve a watermelon on the table is to serve it in the form watermelon  barbecue.For this, the watermelon can be combined with some combined products:

• melon
• cherry tomato
• cheese
• ham (do not be surprised, but better try)
• fruits (banana, grapes, peach)
• strawberry

For such a barbecue you will need special wooden skewers. The watermelon’s cube is combined with other ingredients alternately: watermelon, other ingredient, again watermelon and so on. An unusual and pleasant taste of watermelon in combination with smoked meats, for example, ham or hamon will be unusual.

Another non -standard way - watermelon "Rubika Cube".To do this, you will have to do a lot of work to cut the same and uniform cubes from the watermelon and pulp of other elastic fruits:

• kiwi
• apple
• pear
• melon
• banana
• peach
• mango

All fruits are formed in a beautiful cube, consisting of cells and served with powdered sugar and sprigs of fresh mint. You can also prepare a special honey sauce for fruits and poured it beautifully on a plate.

What is the knife for cutting watermelon?

Watermelon is a popular berry in many countries and it is often served on a festive and everyday table. Inventive cooks have long been used in the kitchen with special tools for cutting and cutting from watermelon.

Beautiful and unusual cutting of watermelon, hedgehog from watermelon

An unusual cutting called “Hedgehog” is not only distinguished by an original appearance that children will definitely like, but also with convenience. Such a cut in the form of a round prickly hedgehog is not ashamed to present guests at a children's birthday and even at a wedding celebration.

Such a “prickly” name was obtained because it owes its external resemblance to the animal. From improvised materials: fruits and berries, it is easy to form a hedgehog muzzle: nose, eyes and legs.

The abundance of wooden toothpicks inserted into the peel will be similar to needles and at the same time will act as a cutlery. The "needle" is protruded from the peel and a piece of watermelon for eating is pricking it.

You can cut a portioned watermelon using a special watermelon spoon. Watermelon balls always look advantageous and attractive. For lack of such a spoon, you can cut the pulp with cubes and sprinkle them with powdered sugar.

How to beautifully cut roses from a watermelon?

If you quite professionally master the art of carving, then it is quite possible to get an excellent result. You yourself can cut out beautiful roses from juicy watermelon, voluminous and edible.

• Take a juicy and ripe watermelon
• Wash it thoroughly from dirt
• Cut the base of the watermelon so that it stands smoothly and steadily on the dish
• The green rude watermelon skin should be carefully cut off with a sharp knife blade, leaving the white part
• In the upper part of the watermelon, a hole is made with a depth of two centimeters with a special or ordinary spoon
• This fossa will be the main deepening of the rose bud
• Your next work consists in consistent cutting in circular movements of all rose petals
• Such a flower can be made of any size, not to make a bud should
• It is better to make a cutting of flower leaves at the base (watch the video for more details)

You can diversify such a clipping by creating more than one flower, but a whole bouquet of blooming once. Such clipping looks as spectacular as possible on the table.

Video: "How to cut a rose from a watermelon?"

How to make a watermelon basket? Original supply of watermelon for the festive table

In addition to the Hedgehog, there are several interesting and original ways to serve a watermelon cut. A watermelon basket involves complete cleansing the berry of the pulp. The basket itself is the purified green peel, in which pieces of watermelon, berries, as well as other fruits are folded.

Options for feeding watermelon baskets:

How to decorate a watermelon with your own hands?

In some cases, decorate a watermelon or any other cut can be decorated with your own hand. To do this, you should show imagination.

Most often, the decoration is created, focusing on the theme of the holiday: birthday, wedding, Halloween and so on. You can decorate the watermelon with any improvised means, fruits and berries, toothpicks, skewers and herbs.

Options for decorating watermelon slices:

Alcoholic watermelon. How to pump watermelon with vodka?

Some holidays suggest the presence of adult snacks on the table. An alcoholic watermelon can serve as an original treat. The secret of this snack is that this berry is in advance by strong alcohol - vodka. You can use any other type of alcohol, but vodka is best suited.

An alcoholic watermelon will become a delicious variety for the one to whom ordinary alcohol has already fed. The sweetness of juicy pulp goes well with the tart taste of vodka. The fortress of the drink is completely not felt in such a treat and therefore it should always be used with caution so as not to get drunk quickly.

You will come in handy:

• One watermelon is sweet and ripe
• Half a liter - a liter of vodka (depending on the size of the watermelon and its desired fortress)
• The knitting needle is metal
• Large syringe with a needle

The needle is too thin to pierce the thick peel of the watermelon and therefore it is best to pierce it with a thin metal knitting needle. After a hole is made, a syringe needle filled with vodka is inserted into this hole and all its contents are inserted into the pulp. So you should do “injections” throughout the berry from all sides.

Video: "Watermelon with vodka"

How to make a hookah on a watermelon?

• Place the watermelon on a plate with a tail up, cut part of the base for the stability of the fetus
• Cut the tail and gently remove the pulp as much as possible as it can turn out
• The pulp should be chopped with a blender and squeeze water
• Watermelon juice returns back. Caical mine is placed on top of a cut hole
• Try to do all the cuts as carefully as possible so as not to cut off the excess and not damage the fruit or cut a very large hole
• You can choose absolutely every taste of tobacco for smoking such a “natural” hookah, but it is best to give preference to watermelon
• If you are not experienced enough in cutting such a hookah, you will come to the rescue of island or adhesive tape, which will slightly help adjust the situation
• When you grind the pulp to fill the watermelon, add a little ice to the blender - a healthy secret for a delicious hookah

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