Melon Brains

I did it! It took a lot less time than I'd expected - about 40 minutes. Also, a vege peeler worked fine - I'd expected to have to peel it with a knife. here's a pic of my achievement :) ...

Here are pictures of mine!!

My variant was a lobotomized watermelon jack o' lantern, with vodka for brains. To keep it upright I cobbled together a stand with duct tape, a small box and orange decorative beer cases. After the vodka was properly infused (with lots of help from internal lacerations—straightforward infusing can take up to a week!), we all ate from the bottom up. Poor soused jack o' lantern didn't know what hit him. 

It was a total hit. Thanks for the inspiration!

It has been done, as accurately as my psychology textbook would have it be done.

 That's pretty dope!

mantaappp!!! (coooll))

If you sprinkle some lemon juice on it it will keep it from browning.

Does ANYONE know if you can make this as a vodka infused watermelon brain?

please send me a message! Thanks

 Vodak?  Rumski? yeah we got that - 
#1 Procure tasty beverage of choice.  (Not effervescent though)
#2 Cut hole the diameter of the neck of the bottle and about 3/4 the length of the neck deep(+, -).
#3 CLEAN the neck of the bottle (Yeah, I know kinda sissy but you never know where it's been before you bought it *shudder*)
#4 Remove the cap.
#5 upend the bottle INTO the HOLE (not your ice filled glass).
#6 begin to pump (gently) the bottle in and out of the melon OR you could wait all stinkin' night- your choice.  Pumping does the job in about 30 minutes.
#7 Return to the excellent instructions for the Brainy Melon to finish the job
AS A NOTE- I'd put the bottle hole on the bottlom OR (get this) figure out what to use as a spinal cord to stand it on. 8-D
NOTE #2- After Booze Treatment ALL parts of the melon are delicious (burp)
NOTE #3 - D O NOT CONSUME AND DRIVE  It's very easy to over do it with this

I am thinking that it is a no b/c of the way you have to infuse a regular watermelon with vodka. :/

The side that you cork the melon and stick the bottle into you can cut off and put onto the bottom.  When you make your melon brain you could then put into a shallow bowl with flavored/coloured vodka.   Maybe add a few eye balls floating around  while you're at it. 

Oh but of course... only in the name of science!!!

get a bottle of any alcoholic beverage, a syringe and a brain!

that's pretty cool, although you need to be careful about the white part, if you eat it you'll get sick, also it might be cool if you cut all the way through the scores and made it jigsaw-esque, so that you could take out hunks of brain to eat. i teally like the idea though it's awesome

 you don't get sick from the white part, it just taste yucky

Enough also has the same effect as Viagra.  Enough, however, is more than an elephant would eat.

My great-grandmother used to pickle the white parts, and ooh, was it yummy. Probably should be ok to eat raw. Though it might make you sick if you pickled it, and then poured grenadine over it. :)

pickled watermelon, yum! we need a recipie for this

I'd like a reference for that. Since when does eating the white part make you sick? Sure, it's hard and tasteless, but that's about all.

maybe an old wives tale, but my mum has always warned us that the white part will give you the runs,

good to know... I'll let my grandma know... lol...

I'm not saying it's wrong, just that it's not necessarily true. ;) It could give you the runs because it's packed with water and fiber...

I had a friend many years back who ate the white part if the white part makes you sick than he musthave been sick alot >_<

I saw on food network all parts are edible but not nessecarily tasty

Good job!!! It's "brain food".

 this is one of the cooler things I've ever seen!

pickled watermelon rhinds (sp?) are delicious

But, but, where's the Thalamus? Or the Occipital lobe for that matter? LOL  

Quite nice :-)

 That's so cool!  I'm growing a couple of watermelons currently, and they'll be ready to harvest right in time for halloween, maybe i'll try it out.

Thats wikd!! so simple and effective, a vodka jelly glaze would make it look nice and slimy :D 

it'd be easy enough I think...If you make the usual vodka & jelly mix
(follow the jelly pack instructions and just use hot vodka instead of hot water, Dont boil the vodka tho or you'll boil away the goodness ;)
Then leave it til its about half-set, thick but still a bit runny and pour it over the brrraaaaiinn melon, fill up the gaps/cortical folds and completely cover it. then set it in the fridge. That should do it, lime green jelly would be wikd :P

If only I wasn't allergic to water melon brains, or cantilope brains... *Sigh*

Just make some with a meat substitute :D

COOL! I added this to my halloween file, it will look really cool in the meat market section of the haunted house, maybe some red licorice "veins" for added depth.

As long as you dont cut into the edible part of the melon very much I dont see why it couldnt be spiked

cool!!

Halloween ... we don't really celebrate it in Australia, but a friend was having a halloween party for the kids, so of course this Instructable leapt to mind! Many thanks!

Interesting, I saw this in this month's Family Fun Magazine.
http://jas.familyfun.go.com/recipefinder/display?id=50574

Me too. Vol. 17, No. 9 October 2008, page 72-73. Your instructions are more complete, but credit needs to be given to the wonderful people of Disney for the idea.

now if I only liked melon, but hey if I ever have a halloween party I will be making this.

so clever! will try myself

Wonderful instructable. I have a brain jello mold I use (you can make it grey with a particular food coloring combo), but this is even more zombilicious! Now I can't wait for the next corporate potluck...

I gave this a try for our Halloween party, and it was a huge hit. Thanks.

I made this today (along with the Frankenstein Finger Cookies from here, too) for the Halloween lunch at my office!! Everyone thought it was awesome!! Unfortunately the watermelon didn't taste so great, but everyone enjoyed looking at it! :)

Oooh, add some good vodka to it and segment the brain and serve. "Pickled" Brain.