How to cut a cantaloupe

Step 1

First, I start by cutting off both stem ends. The stem ends are where you can see a little spot from where the cantaloupe was growing on the vine.

Step 2

Turn the fruit up on one of the flat sides. Then, take your knife and carefully use a downward cutting motion, almost in a C shaped curve, to remove the skin.

Step 3

Keep rotating the fruit around until you have removed most of the skin/ peeling.

Step 4

Go back around and use your knife clean up any little remaining fragments from the peeling.

Step 5

Leave it sitting on that flat base, just like when you were peeling, and cut straight down the middle.

Step 6

Use a spoon to scrape around the seeds and the membranes. This loosens things up. And then use that same spoon to remove the seeds.

Step 7

Follow instructions for peeling and removing seeds above.

Step 8

First, turn the cantaloupe hollow side down (where the seeds were). You want those flat stem ends to be from left to right, as shown in the photos above.

Step 9

Carefully cut thin slices in the same direction you sliced off those stem ends.

Step 10

Use your knife as a scoop to transfer the fruit to a serving plate or tray.

Step 11

Place the slices centered to where you want them. Then you can use your hands to gently press down to kind of fan them out, and they will spread a little to look like a pretty cascading stack of cantaloupe slices.

Step 12

Follow instructions for peeling and removing seeds above.

Step 13

So take your peeled and seeded cantaloupe half and lay it hollow side down on the board. Arrange those flat stem ends facing top to bottom, as shown in the photos above.

Step 14

Cut this half into two equal pieces.

Step 15

Then cut those two pieces in half. Angle your knife slightly toward the center of the cantaloupe, at about a 45 degree angle.

Step 16

Do this on both sides to give you 4 equal chunks.

Step 17

Then cut all remaining pieces in half again to give you 8 total wedges. Again, it helps to angle that knife toward the center of that stem end.

Step 18

Repeat on the other cantaloupe peeled and seeded cantaloupe half.

Step 19

Follow instructions above for peeling, seeding and cutting into wedges.

Step 20

Take 4 of those wedges and turn them horizontal to yourself, with that hollow side down. Use your hands to kind of squeeze them (gently) to hold them together.

Step 21

Carefully make perpendicular cuts (like a checker board). Keep cutting until all of your wedges are in cubes.