Like the apple before it, the melon has a few stages of preparation: first, you get inside it, then you scoop out the seeds from the middle and finally you slice it into handy-sized segments for munching on. With these in mind, we set to work…
The Scissors were first to try and break the tough exterior of the melon, but could only manage a scratch in the surface.
This left the job of opening the fruit up to the Pizza Cutter, which it achieved with the help of a technique discovered last time - that of making a few seperate cuts pressed in towards the centre, working around the diameter of the melon until it had been halved, rather than trying to slice through it in one action.
Next on our list was removing the seeds and pithy bits, a task made remarkably easy by the Pizza Cutter, which scooped the filling out in one go.
The Scissors made more of a meal of removing the filling, but after several scrapes we had an equivalent result to the Pizza Cutter’s.
Now for the slicing. The Pizza Cutter didn’t have an easy time, struggling at points to penetrate the skin. The results weren’t bad though (despite some clear aesthetic shortfalls - note in particular the second slice from top in the photo below), and didn’t take long to produce.
Just when we thought the Pizza Cutter was going to walk this, the Scissors came along and did a fine job of cutting segments. This was far easier and quicker than with the Pizza Cutter, with near perfect looking slices resulting. We were impressed.
So which won? We have on the one hand the Pizza Cutter, doing the whole job from start to finish reasonably well but with no real flair, and on the other the Scissors, which having utterly failed to get into the thing excelled in the actual cutting of the slices. After some deliberation we decided that since one of our untensils was actually capable of doing the whole shebang and the other clearly wasn’t, the Pizza Cutter had to win, despite making a hash of the final stage.
Thanks to Eden for the melon idea.
