Welcome to How To Cook That I am Ann Reardon and this week we're on an inside out theme
- so today I am going to show you how to make the angry dude from the movie out of watermelon.
I know he's red so if you want to paint the watermelon red you can but I like him green.
We also made an inside out cake and I'll link you to that one at the end and in the description
below.
First find a roundish watermelon that will stand up on its own, or cut a slice off the
base to make it stable.
Find the middle of the watermelon and mark a small indent then find half way between
that indent and the top and make another mark.
From just above that point cut up on an angle going outwards and do the same on the other
side.
When you make these cuts you want the cut through the green but not all the way through
the white, so gentle pressure enough to get through that first layer.
Then use the knife to peel off the green skin from that triangle just in the centre of his
forehead.
Use your knife to draw a line about a cm below that one down to the middle.
Then angle your knife slightly and follow that same exact line just it and because you
are angling it you are taking out a tiny slice of the green.
Now find the middle line that we made before and cut across and down to draw a squarish
mouth shape just rounded on the corners.
Then take out the green from that section just like we did on the top.
If you use a really thin bladed knife here it is heaps easier.
Then draw in two eyes and they should be slightly narrowed towards the middle, they just kind
of fit into the shape of the space that you have there.
Then take out the green from them too.
Now take a round piping tip and press it into the eye.
You want to position these close together so he's a bit cross eyed.
Use a knife to take out the white so you can see the red watermelon.
Then using the piping tip cut a circle of green and put it in place for the pupil.
Draw a line a down on each side for the edge of his top teeth.
Then draw a line across in a slight arch.
cut down the centre point then cut each of those sections in half again slightly angling
your line inwards so we have four teeth.
Now we want them to be a bit uneven so shorten a couple of the teeth are going up and down.
Do that again for the bottom teeth except this time we are going to have three teeth
on each side instead of two.
So you want to cut it in half and then have two cuts on each side Then make them uneven
again just like we did on the top ones.
Draw an arch up and around for the tongue.
And now we want to chunk out the watermelon that we dont want there.
So push your knife in deeply to cut out little sections at a time just pulling out the watermelon.
As you cut you can cut a dip in the middle of the tongue there.
Once you've cut out the white what you'll need to swap to a spoon to scoop out some
more of the watermelon flesh to make it rounded like the inside of a mouth instead of the
jagged cuts you'll get with a knife..
To make the teeth whiter just cut of another thin layer of the watermelon skin so it gets
rid of that green.
Now you can the white off the tongue and you can leave a little bit of white on end if
you like.
Then neaten up the bottom teeth, take a thin layer off them to make them whiter and scoop
out the water melon from behind them.
Now for his fire hair.
Take a pineapple.
Cut off the top and the bottom.
Place it on one end and trim off the skin from all the way around the edge.
Put the pineapple on one side and now we want to get rid of all of these bits because they
are not very nice to eat those.
with your knife angled inwards cut under them, then turn the knife and cut under the other
side so it takes like a triangular wedge out.
Continue to so that following the line and you'll see it just wraps around the pineapple
in a spiral.
Once you're done it will look like this and you can cut slices off the pineapple off the
end.
Cut each slice into 6 pieces and cut off the hard part from the middle.
Some people like to eat that.
If you want to keep it on you can, I prefer to cut it off.
Take a skewer and thread on a strawberry followed by a couple of bits of pineapple, you can
make his hair as tall as you like by adding more pineapple.
Then place the skewer into his watermelon head.
Keep adding more until you are happy with it and he's done.
Ready to add to your party table.
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[music: youtube.com/setsailtv used with permission]