Hollowing Out A Wishing Well Fruit Centerpiece Design

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Karen for Expert Village. Now we're going to cut our design out. Put the knife straight up and down, and with a sort sawing motion cut that watermelon. If you feel it's starting to split. When you first cut the watermelon there's a lot of pressure. Cut it in another spot to release some of the pressure. I'm not going all the way down because I feel it wants to crack that way. I'll start my horizontal cut. Just move around the watermelon. I'm going to do the horizontal cut first before I finish this cut down here because I feel the watermelon wanting to crack. There. Now we release some of the pressure and we can continue down here with out it going too far. Continue down to this end. This piece if we put our knife in all the way should come off pretty clean. Then do the other side. Be very careful when you remove the section of watermelon. You don't want to break the arch because that's the part we're keeping. You don't want to break that arch. If you feel any pressure at all, you want to try to cut away the section without breaking your arch. Now, when you have that we're going to remove the fruit from the inside and we'll cut that in cubes. Just a short sawing motion. Move slowly and remove that fruit. This we'll cut into squares to put back into our well later. I'll do that later. Then we'll hollow it out. If you start by going straight up and down just cutting in about an inch. You don't want to accidentally go through the whole watermelon. Just cut so that you have a nice even cut all the way around the edge. I'll show it to you this way. If you cut on a diagonal you can remove some of this. You can remove the watermelon pretty easily like that, and then you have a clean edge. We cut around here. Being careful that we're judging the amount of our knife going in only to the edge of the white. We don't want to dig it in too deeply. We'll down there. Just remove it in chunks the best you can."