HOWTO make a brain out of a watermelon

Here's a lovely Instructable from Scoochmaroo, explaining how to make an edible (well, more edible) brain out of a watermelon -- suitable for vegan zombies.

# Slice off bottom of watermelon so it won't roll around.
# Peel green skin off of the watermelon.
# Score brainy folds in white flesh.
# With a sharp paring knife, carve channels out of melon to resemble cortical folds.

Melon Brains (via Make)

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swestcott

All we want to do is eat your brains ..
Anonymous

what kind of knife do you use to cut all the skin off? I’ve tried two different knives and still am having trouble with it.
Anonymous

Great! I need a new brain.
Anonymous

My husband helped me to make this for my fourth grade students for a school Halloween party. We also chose to have the brain float in a huge bowl of “blood” punch. It was a great success!
Duchampnipple

Have you seen Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead? It is a very weird zombie movie by Troma, and PETA says it is the number one movie to make people go vegan. The link to the PETA top ten list: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/06/top_10_movies_t.php

and the Poultrygeist movie site:
http://poultrygeistmovie.com

Really gross movie for Vegans at Halloween!
Anonymous

this would be cool for a science progect
sammich

This melon brain seems to have a bigger left brain, but a more convoluted right brain….
So is it a verbal realist or an imaginative mathematician?? I say someone should volunteer a body to transplant it into, just so I can see…
Anonymous

im mos def gonna do this this is this is totally wotally coolio
Cool Products

I’m totally doing this for my Halloween party this year, thanks for the great idea.
Pipenta

Very nice. It doesn’t look overworked like so much holiday food decor does. It is icky, and yet entirely not icky. Overall it is just very clever.
trr

It looks like it could use a nice egg white finish to give it a nice slimy sheen.
wylkyn

I’m wondering if a diluted wash of food coloring could make this more realistic. Maybe mixing blue, yellow, and red in the right amounts to get a kind of gray. Heavier on the blue, I would think. I wonder if the white part would take in the coloring. Worth trying.
ill lich

“May I have a piece of mind, please?”
Frank_in_Virginia

Well, here we go. God make the watermelon and you can ‘see’ the brain in the watermelon. Therefore intelligent design.