(re-post)
I once owned a pineapple corer that was a length of stainless steel tube with a wooden dowel that would fit inside it. I never got around to using it (it looked pretty at a garage sale; brand new, actually … so I bought it; never thought to ask the seller is she had actually used it) but I believe you pushed the stainless steel tube into the pineapple and then removed the resultant core with the dowel.
Anyway this item popped to mind for some reason along with "watermelon" and I got to wondering what would happen if I took …..
… a watermelon, length of stainless steel tubing, hammered into the watermelon ….. on an angle
or straight down ….
… and then used a dowel to push the cut pieces out ….
Well, I imagined having neat watermelon lollies, the peel as the handle, the fruit fun to eat. I imagined doing the same thing with honeydew …. cantaloupe ….
Sigh. Back to the drawing board.
At least the remains of this experiment are edible.
Other failures involving food have, in the past, been buried in the garden.
With the fizzling of that tutorial maybe a bit of face can be saved by sharing the fact that cassia bark (aka cinnamon) sticks ….
… when put in a thermos cup of tea, flavour the tea very nicely and the stick unrolls.
What I find equally thrilling is that it rolls up on itself again as it dries. This is the third time with this stick and I am wondering if it will just continue, open/shut, open/shut etc.