"ViLco" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> I think I know pretty much every method for prepping a melon, from
>> balling, cutting or even doing the filleting method. Balling seems
>> perhaps a tad less messy but more time consuming and you waste some
>> melon. But it's still messy and I am getting sick of the sticky
>> mess. And I can't usually afford to buy it cut up although once in a
>> while I do find a good deal on it.
>> So, in your opinion, what is the least messy method?
>
> Just let it fall to the ground: it will break into many pieces *all*
> standing on the rind. The first time I heard this I thougth "nonsense",
> then I saw it happen and now I too use this method. Obviously some juice
> will fall to the ground, expecially for a very mature fruit, so don't do
> it on a carpet. I do it in the porch.

I can assure you nobody would eat it like that.