Hack a Watermelon!

Fruit/Veg:
How To Hack A Watermelon

Step 1: SECRET INGREDIENTS!!!

Shhh! You'll need a syringe and a few bottles of pre-mixed ethanol-based beverages (booze). I used 007's favorite... Martinis! (Shaken, not stirred of course!). This is great for parties, etc., and is guaranteed to be a big hit.

Inject your drink of choice into a few choice places around the melon (Sodium Pentathol is NOT recommended!!!).

Comments

[pyro1324]

i'm gonna stop with speed and use my syringes for this instead! nah just jokin!

[Mr. Seeder]

so your continuing to use speed then?

[ac7ss]

do you get root access?

[a_nemus]

The use of the word hack has been used quite loosely, almost as loosely as the word 'art'. When a term is over-used and improperly used if not only loses it's impact, it loses it's meaning. Why couldn't this video have been named, "Mellon infusion" or "party melon" an even better title would have been "Martini Melon" does that not better describe it's content? "Hack a watermelon" is quite vague. I'd accept the use of "Hack" in this instruction video if you have no problem referring to surgeons and doctors as "people hackers"

[REA]

 i thought this was going to be some sort of melon-computing device thing.

[Nick11255]

??? chill out anemus

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

Some surgeons are people hackers. Plastic surgeons, especially those who specialize in "gender re-assignment", are people hackers. ;< )

[Tobita]

Anyone with a knife or relatively sharp object is a hacker, i mean really, even someone with a baseball bat could be called a hacker!

[red-king]

 not really... hack implies that you have to chop or cut something. i don't consider inflicting blunt trauma to be "hacking"

[Rimwulf]

Thats where one idea of the word hacker came to be they hacked through it. Like Phreaker was a phone hacker now another word to describe any form of a hacker. Not one verity of the hack is to do something to an object to make it better.

[red-king]

Hmmm...  I suppose.

[andross52]

i quite agree.

[volquete]

lol. some people at a block party i went to did something like this( i think they soaked chunks in margaritas!). i almost ate it(im 13) but my mom took it from me. : ( P.S. James Bond likes VODKA Martinis, shaken, not stirred.

[wupme]

One important thing. You never shake a martini. Shaked martinis look cloudy, even if bond claimed he wants them shaked, they've always been stirred ;)

[rotteneggsaresmelly]

What could be better than watermelon? How about watermelon made even better! lol

[no-one]

This is a spiked watermelon. Rum is the traditional beverage.

[Sandisk1duo]

Great Instructable!
"DON't eat watermelon and drive"
catchy

[BorisTheSpider]

Hrm, makes me wanna dig up that old "watermelon vodka" recipe. It may seem redundant, but I can certainly imagine watermelons INFUSED (note - not "hacked") with a similar flavor, instead of adding something else. I've seen this done before, but usually it's something along the lines of "cut a hole, stick bottle in the hole, chill, and enjoy." Never thought of the injections.

[082535]

I Don't Think That This Has Anything To Do With Hacking.

[Tobita]

of course it does, how do you cut the water melon? you HACK it!, der!

[the true king o fools]

lo-freakin-l!!

[darkmuskrat]

It has EVERYTHING to do with hacking! Watermelon: "Hax...I haz it"

[nvnusman]

Okay, what we have here is a person taking a an existing self-contained item (... program ... product ... organism ... ) and, by adding a process or appendage or ingredient not anticipated by the original "maker," repurposing it to a new function. How does that not qualify as hacking? (Pumpkin carving ... is it hacking? (Or Politics? Could be both!) ) Think outside the rind! Or INSIDE the rind!

[ledzep567]

pwned lol hahaha great instructable!!! maybe vodka in a orange?

[Honestinwilkesbarre]

W.C. Fields use to inject oranges with vodka when the studios were trying to make him quit drinking.

[Vendigroth]

and you can keep then in the freezer in summer! Great idea! Make n instructable on it!

[ledzep567]

that would be a good idea cus vodka doesnt freeze... but, im only 15 lol vodka is hard to come by. well, actually more hard to hide. even though its clear my mom would be curious on why i was injecting oranges with water....

[Mailbox_Arson]

I Hack pumpkins all the time... Good Point though :D

[082535]

I think that the title should be Alcoholic Watermelon recipe, because with these instructions it sounds like to me that this is a recipe. You see the definition according to Wikipedia is. A recipe is a set of instructions that show how to prepare or make something, especially a culinary dish. So if this is a hack, then why are cook books called recipe instructions, instead of hacking instructions.

[nvnusman]

Okay, what you need here is a sense of history. "Hacking" is a recent term, a few decades old and referring to altering software for some ... whether exploratory or nefarious ... purpose not intended by the original maker ... in the case of a watermelon, that would be the Maker! As in Higher Power, deity, Creator, God. God probably did not intend his fruits as grown to be intoxicating, although the debate continues about His attitude regarding whether they should be brewed or fermented or distilled into beer, wine or liquor. (I vote YES!) The word recipe and its predecessors and translations have existed for millenia and refer to instructions for transforming edible ingredients into foods different and hopefully more delicious (or rewarding) than their original forms. But spend a few minutes in research and you will find "recipes" for success, heartbreak, demolition, disaster, affluance, sobriety, intoxication, spells, antidotes, poisons, firestarters, extinguishers, varnishes, paint removers, mileage enhancers, permanent lubricants, flatulance cures, fart powders, Spanish Fly, turning manure to gold, turning wine to water (drink a bunch ... try it!), effective Facebook pages, successful sales calls, conception enhancers, abortatives, better martinis, stronger home-brew beers, guaranteed lottery numbers, curses for ex-lovers, charms for future ones, etc. The distinctive feature is that the person passing this on makes an assurance (not necessarily true) that this recipe works and that it's worth whatever effort is involve to use it to solve the appropriate challenge you now face, whether feeding your In-Laws at the first big holiday or improving your chances for the Big Promotion. Synonyms for recipe might be plan, instruction, kit, method, strategy, path, improvement, modification. (Of course, ther are many recipes on Instructables.com. Most claim some originality.) Synonyms for hack might be discovery, exploration, synergism, creation, evolution, theory. This is more along the line of "Hey, I was thinking abut this stuff and suddenly a thought came into my mind that I could ... " and then the writer describes his test trials of his idea and how successful it was. (The total failures are less frequently reported, which is sad because humans learn more from failure than from success.) Then, if the hack connects with you, you are inspired to write code that posts your ex's new lover"s frequency of porn-site visits on his or her Facebook profile hourly. And synonyms for Instructable might include lesson plan, education, eye-opener, starting point, inspiration, and example. Putting a more powerful engine into a vehicle is a modification. Altering a conventional gasoline engine so it can run on recycled oil from a french fryer is more of a hack. It requires stepping away from conventional thinking, "thinking outside the box." It represents a move from using a technology as others use it to (arguably) becoming an artist, thinking creatively, pursuing the non-obvious paths and following mental paths that many others would not. Plugging your kid's Fisher Price microscope digital camera into your computer's USB port and snapping stills and vid clips of their aquarium microbes would be following a recipe (instructions, plan). Adding a convex lens to it and mounting it on an outside wall and installing open-source motion detection software to record whoever has been sneaking into your yard every Friday evening to steal roses for his girlfriend would be a hack, because it uses something for a purpose never intended by Fisher Price. (It would also be a great hack! Go for it! I don't have a girlfriend and don't grow flowers!) Taking those captures and massaging them in GIMP (free open-source image manipulation software) or Photoshop (GASP!!!! You'd PAY for this???) might well be art!!!!!! If this hasn't help you delineate the differences between "hack" and "recipe," you probably be asking a guidance councillor whether you should pursue a degree in Liberal Arts, Philosophy or Education. Any of the three would expose you to more than enough information about the mental processes required to make the distinction. So is this a Hack? Maybe not, unless the writer had never heard of this before and re-invented it, thinking outside the box. Is this a recipe oh, yeah! A good one! Is this an Instructable? Again, probably, if it introduces a useful concept that a select portion of the population knows but is now passed to a wider audience. Instruct, after all, is a subset of Teach.

[arcarter369]

WHY DOES IT MATTER?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! AC

[nvnusman]

Okay, in a very comprehensiver sense, maybe it doesn't. But we all have our own interests and desires. Maybe you would rather be hang-gliding or skateboarding. Fine. Do it. Maybe someone else wants to create a 90-proof tangerine! Please refer to this site's "Be Nice" policy.

[arcarter369]

im just saying y does it matter wether or not it is tecnicly a hack or not AC

[MattSwan]

is it completely necessary to SIGN your comments. I can understand instructables, but comments?! no offense or anything. Also, I believe it does matter, because its about keeping the complete usage of the word hack. Its trying to keep the same sort of "virginity" of the word.

[jacksteal4]

i cant drink

[Vendigroth]

Add the tasty soft drink of your choice, then.

[Savant]

I usually just make a round hole in the watermelon slightly smaller than the neck of your favorite vodka. Open the bottle and insert it into the hole. Invert it so the bottle is on top. Use a pint for a small melon and fifth for a large one. You could also use the little airline bottles one after another. I cut mine over a pan so I can reclaim any juice and add some ice... Glenn

[BigCoCo]

this is pretty much exactly what i do. we usually just dump a bottle of everclear in there and let that sit for a while. another thing we do is a couple of bottles of everclear, some water, and koolaid mix in a gatorade cooler and then dump in a bunch of sliced oranges and apples and then eat those after all the party juice is gone..

[icedog515]

of course it has to do with hacking. u...hack it with the...syringe....thing... -.-

[The Ox]

This also works very well with Grapefruits, if you're into more citrusy fruits. But I'll surely try this