OXO Good Grips Melon Baller, One Size

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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.

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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.

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: Made from robust stainless steel, this melon baller easily handles even the toughest of fruit and veg, while its wooden handle ensures it fits nicely in the hand.

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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. 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. 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.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. All the melon ballers out there work by way of a similar same scoop-and-twist action, but they do come in a few different styles. Some melon ballers are straightforward, with just a handle and a single scooping cup while others feature scooping cups of different sizes on either end.