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Default Least messy way to prep a melon?


"Cheryl" > wrote in message
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> On 7/15/2012 11:00 PM, LeonLeonard wrote:
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>> Scrub the porous skin thoroughly before cuttings to reduce that problem.
>> Last I read, it's not the flesh..... but what may have been, the
>> contaminated
>> soil that it was grown in, stuck in the pours.

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> And when the skin is tainted and not washed, cutting through with a knife
> infects the meat.


Yes.