Your chosen nickname for the warmest season of the year might depend on your fruit preferences. Whether you look forward to summer as strawberry season, tomato season or watermelon season, it’s impossible to resist the charms of summer’s fruit haul. For folks who love to entertain guests, a big fruit salad or afruit and cheese boardcan be go-to ways to please a crowd on a hot day—but one TikTok user may have just upped our fruit presentation skills to a whole new level.
Heather Wish Staller (or@happykidskitchenon TikTok) just posted a TikTok sharing her fun take on serving up chunks of fresh watermelon, and we’re obsessed. Staller slices her watermelon into fry-like shapes with a crinkle cutter, then serves them with an easy dip you can whip up in the blender. The result is a pretty adorable, very pink smorgasbord of summer flavor.
How to Cut Watermelon
Like we recommend inour guide to cutting a whole watermelon, using a sharp serrated knife to make the initial lengthwise and crosswise cuts can be a convenient way to start your watermelon chopping process. A sharp knife that you can use to saw through the melon’s thick rind can help you slice up your fruit more quickly and with less chance of injury—after all, a sharp knife is a lot safer than a dull one.
When your melon is cut up into more manageable pieces, you’re ready to haul out the crinkle cutter and make things happen. Staller opts for pretty slim fries—think thinner than a finger, thicker than a standard straw—but you could cut them according to your preference.
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Staller recommends a super affordablecrinkling knife from Amazon, and adds that you might get more use out of this kitchen tool than you expect. In a follow-up video, she suggests making your own crinkle-cut friesin the air fryerorbaking them, and you could even crinkle cut some apples to serve up with creamy peanut butter. Just be sure you make those apple fries to order and serve ‘em up before they oxidize.
If the yogurt dip doesn’t appeal to you—or if you’d prefer to offer multiple dips with your platter of melon—you could try some of our favorite pairings, like a side ofMint-Basil Dressing. However you serve up this super-snackable fruit, you’ll be keeping yourself hydrated and getting some seriousheart-healthy benefits. Sounds like a win to us!
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