Edges of the scooping cups are overly sharp, leaving us with bits of melon rind on some of our melon balls.

Founded in 1850 by Thomas Plant as a specialist in ironmongery and metal products, the company was renamed KitchenCraft in the 1990s to better describe the vast array of products now produced. From hot beverages, to baking and food prep, KitchenCraft produce a large line of products designed to both add colour and style to your kitchen, while making your life that little bit easier. Portion Ice Cream. Use a larger sized melon baller to portion perfect scoops of ice cream ( Vegan Matcha Ice Cream, anyone?), or use smaller ballers to make mini ice cream cones!We used these 5 criterial scores to calculate an overall average rank for each melon baller, thereby determining the winners in each of our 6 main categories! Best Single Melon Baller: Norpro Grip-EZ Melon Baller Scoop Cheese Balls. You can use a melon baller to perfectly portion and roll soft cheeses before coating in nuts or other toppings.

The smallest melon baller available is going to be the ⅜ inch size, while larger options range from 1 ¼-inches, 1 ⅜-inches, and beyond! What Else Can You Do With a Melon Baller? After researching and putting each melon baller to the task at hand, we granted each tool a score in each of the following 5 criteria:

We unfortunately pinpointed one major design flaw here though. The part where the cups are joined to the handle is a rather bulky juncture at the base of each cup as opposed to the edge of it. This leads to some scooping difficulties and also results in some tearing of the melon flesh as opposed to smooth scooping.

Fiercely defending its reputation as a premier kitchen tool gadget company, OXO takes the cake for the best dual melon baller! This tool features two stainless steel heads. One end is a big scoop that produces 1.25” melon balls while the other end is a small sized scoop, producing just 1” balls. Also, though the quality of the stainless steel is high, we see some flaws in the way these tools were assembled. Namely, the large gaps where the hanging loop joins onto the metal handle will easily allow water and juices to enter the hollow handle--thereby creating a breeding ground for gunk and bacteria buildup, so you’ll need to be sure to wash carefully and fully sanitize these tools regularly. Pros: Next scoop out any remaining watermelon flesh and juice, we ate and drunk it, so nothing went to waste. How to serve watermelon balls? I love my melon baller, it's a must have for fruit salads. I used to use a regular spoon before but that doesn't come out too great. I also like that when I use a melon baller, all the fruits are the same size so the salad looks much more uniform and attractive. Core Fruits & Vegetables. The size and shape of a melon baller is ideal for removing seeds and cores from many fruits and veggies like pears, apples, cucumbers, tomatoes, and bell peppers.While most of the melon ballers we tested produced spheres in the 1-inch diameter range, this small melon baller from Mercer Culinary easily produces a pile of mini melon balls--each one no more than ⅜ of an inch across! If you plan on buying the most amazing melon baller, you will have to focus on some key points. Size Our main complaint with this melon baller is that the hole in the bottom of the cup is too small, thereby creating suction as you’re scooping melon. Where the melon balls released easily from many of the other tools we tested, this one required an extra hand to remove the spheres after each scoop. I've heard of people making decorations with it, with small pumpkins for Halloween and apples for Christmas but I've never tried it myself. It sounds like a fun holiday project though.

Ballers are usually made from one of two materials: stainless steel or plastic. Stainless steel ballers are more durable and can be used with many different types of melons. Plastic ballers are much cheaper, but they can’t be used with certain kinds of melons, like cantaloupes. The length of the handle This included cantaloupe, honey dew and watermelon. The melon baller makes sure all your fruit is the same size and the shape of the balls is very pleasing and appetizing.On the downside, the cutting edge of this melon baller is so sharp, we actually found our melon scooping efforts to have punched through the rind on several different occasions. This means that when you’re at the point in your melon balling that you’re getting close to the melon skin, you have to be extremely careful so as not to wind up with tough bits of rind on one edge of your perfect melon spheres like we did. Pros: Though the versatility offered by this set is unmatched, no one tool from this melon baller set stood out in terms of functionality. While the round melon baller did make large, nicely sized melon rounds, we found the depth of the scooping cup to be too shallow to easily get them to be perfectly spherical. The tools for shaping decorative balls did not turn out perfectly either, almost as if those sharp edges were not quite sharp enough for seamless shaping.