Know those nifty apple slicers that you thrust down to cut eight perfect sections?
Well, they’ve been super-sized.
Meet the daddy of all fruit slicers. The watermelon slicer.
The stainless-steel bladed device with rubber grip handles looks like it could slice a basketball into 12 slices. Or a pizza. Or a hand that gets in its path.
We didn’t try it on any of the above.
We put it to the test on a 20-pound watermelon. It didn’t take a body-builder to core and slice the melon, though it did take some rocking and wiggling. A watermelon dance of sorts.
The payoff: An artful masterpiece with a dozen jumbo slices slaying from the core like petals from a giant flower.
Priced start at $10 on Amazon and home goods stores such as Bed Bath &Beyond.
The model scored at Sam’s Club came with a bonus matching tray and a serrated Tomadachi knife that was handy to cut the melon from the rind and pare into smaller pieces. Not only that, the blade was emblazoned with brightly colored photo images of melon.
And it worked so well cutting the watermelon … was the fancy slicer needed after all?
— Andrea Brown, Herald writer
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