OXO Good Grips Melon Baller, One Size

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Make a Sweet Treat. A melon baller is the perfect tool for making confections such as our Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles or Halloween Themed Cake Pops! All the melon ballers out there work by way of a similar same scoop-and-twist action, but they do come in a few different styles. Some melon ballers are straightforward, with just a handle and a single scooping cup while others feature scooping cups of different sizes on either end. 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!

Edges of the scooping cups are overly sharp, leaving us with bits of melon rind on some of our melon balls. With its two ends, you can easily make two sizes of perfectly formed fruit spheres (24mm and 30mm) to make your desserts stand out from the crowd. It is ideal for small balls of melon, papaya and nectarine, and includes draining holes to allow excess moisture to easily run off and not spoil your dish.A melon baller is one of the most versatile kitchen tools. It can be used for tasks as diverse as scooping out cantaloupe balls or removing seeds from a cucumber. Which type should you buy? Here are three types to consider and their advantages. The traditional melon baller Once you get the hang of it, it doesn't take long at all and before you know it, you have a whole bowl of perfectly shaped balls of delicious melon.

This buying guide covers all the necessary information you require to make the perfect choice for melon ballers. What Should You Prioritize While Buying Melon Ballers? 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? You’ll want to get a baller that can create appropriate balls for your needs. The size of the balls is usually measured in millimeters (mm). The best way to determine which size will work for you is to consider what kind of melon you’ll be using. This melon baller is shaped like a small shovel. It has a blunt edge and no sharp point. It is made from plastic or stainless steel. The scraper melon baller is best for: Place a sheet of parchment paper on a baking sheet, and pop each watermelon ball down, making sure not to let them touch. Put the tray in the freezer for a couple of hoursWe can substitute melon ballers with metal measuring spoons if they have sharp edges. For example, make fancy dessert garnish and we need to make melon balls without a scooper. Measuring spoons not easy to use instead of a melon baller for every task but if we need we can, especially for soft fruits as watermelon and melon. What I like about this melon baller substitute, they come in a few sizes. With these measuring spoons and we can make different size balls to garnish desserts or other dishes. I tried to use to scoop core from the apple and it works fine. I can use it to make a few balls garnishes. However, my measuring spoons not design for this task and bent so easily. Another downside, missing the hole on the spoon. The hole on the melon baller is important if we make balls from watermelon as an example. The juice escapes from the hole and we can make easy perfectly shaped watermelon balls. 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. That small hole that is in the cup of a melon baller is actually very crucial to the design of the tool! In addition to allowing excess juices to drain away from the fruit as you scoop, this hole also allows air to pass through, thereby preventing suction. Without the hole (or if the hole is too small, as noted in our review of the Norpro Grip-EZ Melon Baller) the suction that develops during scooping makes it difficult to remove the fruit from the deep cup. What Sizes Do Melon Ballers Come In? You also could mix these smaller sized melon rounds into a salad of larger melon balls for a really interesting take on fruit salad. In addition to offering the smallest scooping cup, this melon baller is also the smallest overall, coming in a nicely compact size that doesn’t take up a lot of space in your utensil drawer. We also found the tiny size of this tool to be perfect for making use of the “in-between” sections of melon left behind from our larger melon baller testing. There you have it a Watermelon Ball Bowl! We also added some kiwi for some extra goodness! How to freeze Watermelon Balls?

Scooping the fruit out (the serrations help create grooves for scooping, similar to a grapefruit spoon or spork) But you also need those kitchen gadgets that make doing a specific task simple and easy – whether that’s scooping batter, dishing out ice cream or making those fancy little balls of melon that take your presentation up a notch. corers, hullers and stoners egg utensils garlic presses graters juicers, reamers and zesters mashers and ricers pastry brushes pizza and pasta utensils roasting utensils rolling pins spatulas thermometers and timers tin, jar and bottle openers utensil sets vegetable brushes whisks tongs and turners colanders sieves and strainers blow torches and lighters food rings and presses drizzlers and pourers 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!

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On the downside, the cutting edge of this melon baller is so sharp, we actually found our melon scooping efforts to have punched through the rind on several different occasions. This means that when you’re at the point in your melon balling that you’re getting close to the melon skin, you have to be extremely careful so as not to wind up with tough bits of rind on one edge of your perfect melon spheres like we did. Pros: Wow, I am another one of those people that has never actually used their melon baller for balling melons. I actually use mine on all sorts of fruit, and mostly for some kind preparation work.