OXO Good Grips Melon Baller, One Size

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When shopping for a good melon baller, it's important to take into consideration the sharpness of the scooping portion, the depth of the cup, the grip of the handle, and the overall ergonomics of the tool itself. Since you'll be using this device to scoop a juicy, messy fruit for sometimes long periods of time, it's gotta be comfortable to hold and easy to use! The name of this tool doesn’t necessarily tell the whole story! In addition to balling melon (and other fruits), you can use your melon baller for a number of different culinary tasks and creations. A melon baller is a small scooping tool that is used to produce perfectly round melon balls. Think of it like an ice cream scoop, but with a smaller cup and a slightly sharper cutting edge that is able to slice through and shape the dense fruit. What Are the Different Types of Melon Ballers? The sharp edge on the cup of this melon baller is nice and thin and allows you to cut through the melon flesh or scoop fruit with ease, but not so sharp that you have to worry about accidentally cutting yourself.

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What you are going to do is just sink in those rounded spoons to the flesh of any room – temperature, chilled water – melons. And then, pull the spoons out and they’ll be as rounded as possible ; take them off the spoons and put these balls on plates, and then throw them in the fridge ( or freezer, if you’re not going to enjoy them for a few days ) . And with any basic knife or even carving spoon that you have, you can also carve off the edges or sides of certain balls, to make them a little more proportionate with the rest and even things up just a bit. Nice final touch. What utensil do you use to make melon balls? They are called melon ballers. They have a round end that forms round ball about 3/8 inch to 1 inch when scooped into the flesh of a melon.

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In addition to being spring loaded via a ratchet mechanism between the handles, the scooping of this melon baller also features a slider mechanism that sweeps the cup after each and every squeeze. This helps the melon balls (or whatever you happen to be scooping) to release easily from the cup as well as reduces the strain on hands and wrists since the tool is doing much of the work itself. Folks with wrist mobility issues, this one’s for you! Freeze Tomato Paste. This one sounds like an oddball, but a melon baller is actually the perfect tool for freezing tomato paste and other similarly textured purees!

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Having the potential of 2 different size melon balls available in the same tool offers excellent versatility, as creating a variety of sizes can really amp up the interest factor when it comes to making dishes like our Watermelon Arugula Salad or Fresh Watermelon Fruit Salad. It’s most definitely not just for watermelon though, as this OXO Melon Baller worked just as well on our cantaloupe and honeydew melons as well. You can prepare the melon balls up to 2 days in advance. Once the balls are made, just place the fruit in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Why should you not put melon in the fridge?Edges of the scooping cups are overly sharp, leaving us with bits of melon rind on some of our melon balls. We used these 5 criterial scores to calculate an overall average rank for each melon baller, thereby determining the winners in each of our 6 main categories! Best Single Melon Baller: Norpro Grip-EZ Melon Baller