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)

[#1 posted by Cool Products, October 24, 2008 6:51 AM]

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

[#2 posted by Pipenta, October 24, 2008 7:17 AM]

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.

[#3 posted by Frank_in_Virginia, October 24, 2008 7:41 AM]

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

[#4 posted by swestcott, October 24, 2008 8:08 AM]

All we want to do is eat your brains ..

[#5 posted by Anonymous, October 24, 2008 8:31 AM]

Great! I need a new brain.

[#6 posted by ill lich, October 24, 2008 11:25 AM]

"May I have a piece of mind, please?"

[#7 posted by Duchampnipple, October 24, 2008 12:41 PM]

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!

[#8 posted by trr, October 24, 2008 2:26 PM]

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

[#9 posted by sammich, October 26, 2008 8:09 PM]

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...

[#10 posted by wylkyn, October 27, 2008 3:01 PM]

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.

[#11 posted by Anonymous, May 4, 2009 10:42 AM]

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

[#12 posted by Anonymous, July 27, 2009 6:03 AM]

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.