Here is a Springdell-grown watermelon in all it’s glory. Note the large flux capacitor-shaped center (again, dating myself) and it’s lack of seeds in that entire inner circle. This is a good place to start mining for large seed-free pieces. Here is how:

First, cut your melon lengthwise top to bottom with the stem representing the top).

Next, cut it into quarters, again using the stem as your guide for where the top is.

Look at all that undisturbed pink in the middle. No seeds there!

You are now primed to remove the largest seed-free chunks of the melon by cutting just above the seed line.  This simultaneously exposes the main line of seeds so that they are quite easy to remove quickly and carefully using the tip of your knife.

These pieces never stick around long. I couldn’t keep my three year-old’s hand out of the picture long enough to take this photo. He is forever immortalized in cyberspace as a watermelon thief. (Truth be told, if I didn’t have the camera in my hands, it would have been my mitts hovering over that plate).