Ready To Have Your Mind Blown? Here Is Some Smoked Watermelon Roast!

I love the reviews shown in the photo of a roasted watermelon designed to look like a baked ham! It had foodies around the world weighing in!

As reported by The Daily Mail:

A New York City restaurant has divided the internet after it unveiled a smoked ‘ham’ on the menu — which is actually made entirely out of watermelon.

Ducks Eatery, a smokehouse restaurant located in the East Village, caused a flurry on social media after it showed off its watermelon ham on Instagram. 

To create the juicy ‘ham’, the eatery smokes the watermelon for eight hours, and then places it in a brine made of salt, ash, and spices for four days.

But that’s not all.

The watermelon is then smoked for another eight hours before it is placed in a pan with rosemary and the ‘meaty’ juices to solidify the taste. 

When the watermelon is served to the table, it looks exactly like the a ham on the outside — but when a waiter slices into it, the pink fruit inside is revealed. 

Wow!

FoodBeast had this video of the “carving:”

As you can see, social media weighed in all over the map, with some loving the creativity, and some crying “blasphemy!”

Personally, I’d dig in and try it – but reading what they have to do in order to make it sounds exhausting!

Sadly, Ducks closed early in the pandemic, but we will always have their smoke watermelon roast to remember them by.

This isn’t the first time I’ve showed you food that was presented one way, only to turn out to be something else entirely!

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