Watermelon stays juicy and mess-free when you cut it using 'life-changing' method

Is there anything more refreshing on a hot summer's day than a slice of deliciously juicy watermelon? Not only is it full of water to help you stay hydrated in the heat, they also contain essential vitamins and potent antioxidants that help to support heart health, muscle recovery, and overall wellness.

While most supermarkets will have the option of buying the fruit already sliced up into chunks or slices, it's often more affordable to buy a whole watermelon and cutting it up yourself at home.

However, this can quickly turn messy, as the large fruit can be awkward and difficult to cut into, especially if you bought one of the bigger variants.

Luckily, the internet is full of clever cooking and food hacks that makes everyday tasks, like cutting up a melon, a lot more easier than you may have first thought.

One TikTok user known as Timbits is one of the people who has shared his life hac, as he ended up baffling almost a million viewer by sharing his clever and mess-free way of cutting up a watermelon.

"You've been cutting watermelon wrong your whole life and your ancestors are disappointed. This hack will change your life - no more messy slices, just clean grids every time," the caption of the video read, as a man was seen showing off the simple cutting method.

How to cut a watermelon without mess

Having already sliced the watermelon in half, the person cutting the fruit went on to gently slice the pink fruit inside into equally evened out slices, creating rows that are a few centimetres apart.

They then turned the watermelon around to add more lines, turning the rows into square pieces of watermelon.

Now, to get the chunks of fruit out from the peel, the man goes on to grab a large metal spoon which he used to scoop out the various chunks of watermelon before moving it over into a bowl.