Anyone ever had a watermelon explode in your house?

[AppleDumpling]

Never heard of this. I usually don’t buy a full watermelon, just a cut section.

I’d definitely bring it back to the store and ask for a refund. I wouldn’t trust getting a new one from that store since their whole stock of melons could be bad.

 

[marlynnp]

Never heard of this. I usually don’t buy a full watermelon, just a cut section.

I’d definitely bring it back to the store and ask for a refund. I wouldn’t trust getting a new one from that store since their whole stock of melons could be bad.

OMG! Imagine them all 'going off' in the store one after the other! lol

 

[kidshop]

yes, once a bought a watermelon in january when I lived in florida. it exploded a few days later. I only buy summer watermelons now!

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

So you were making some watermelon wine on your counter? The only time I've ever exploded a watermelon, it was because the slippery sucker slipped out of my hands while I was trying to carry it into the house. I almost always have watermelon in the house during the summer, and I've had them do the slow rot thing, where they develop a soft spot and leak stinky juice all over. Never exploded.

 

[Lalabubbles]

Yup!! Had it happen in my car once a long time ago. I left it in there for a long time and it was summer so super hot. I opened the door one day and it smelled so bad because it had exploded. Needless to say it took awhile for the smell to go away
We eat a lot of watermelon and this has only happened once. So far this summer we have had 47 watermelons, there are only 3 of us too.

 

[AnnaS]

It happened to me about two years ago. I placed it on my kitchen counter after coming in with it. Finished putting away all my groceries and went up (from my basement) to get the watermelon......my daughter comes in same time and we were both shocked. There were holes on the watermelon and the water/juice was just spraying out. We were both in disbelief and laughing. Never saw this before or heard of it. I could not get to it fast enough........after placing it in my sink and covering it, I wish I was fast enough and thought of picking up my camera. I placed it in double shopping bags and planned on returning it to the store in the morning. What a mess to clean up.

The bag in the morning was filled with the water/juice.........it was just about all drained out.

During the summer months when they go on sale here for $3.88 we buy 3 or 4 for the week. This was definitely a first and hopefully a last.

 

[DisneyHardin]

Never had a watermelon explode. That sounds like a mess I don't want to deal with.

My worst kitchen explosion was one time I knocked a full 2-liter of Coke off the top of the fridge. It hit the floor and blew the top off and sticky, sugary Coke covered every inch of my kitchen. I mopped with hot water and vinegar at least 10 times before I didn't feel like I was sticking to the floor anymore.

 

[mombrontrent]

Never had a watermelon explode. That sounds like a mess I don't want to deal with.

My worst kitchen explosion was one time I knocked a full 2-liter of Coke off the top of the fridge. It hit the floor and blew the top off and sticky, sugary Coke covered every inch of my kitchen. I mopped with hot water and vinegar at least 10 times before I didn't feel like I was sticking to the floor anymore.

That sounds terrible!

 

[tvguy]

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/fruits/watermelon/watermelon-splitting.htm

Sounds like it wasn't irrigated properly in the field.

 

[DeniseJH]

Yikes! I have a huge watermelon sitting on my counter right now! At the moment, it’s quiet.

I totally lol'd at that!

 

[DeniseJH]

I exploded a bunch of potatoes in the oven once - forgot to poke 'em! (Nothing compared to the watermelon/soda/crockpot stories though as at least my mess was contained.)

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Never had a watermelon explode. That sounds like a mess I don't want to deal with.

My worst kitchen explosion was one time I knocked a full 2-liter of Coke off the top of the fridge. It hit the floor and blew the top off and sticky, sugary Coke covered every inch of my kitchen. I mopped with hot water and vinegar at least 10 times before I didn't feel like I was sticking to the floor anymore.

Yikes! I had a bottle of butterscotch schnapps fall from the top of the fridge and shatter all over the place. I feel your sticky pain!

 

[tvguy]

I messaged a local Produce Guy and this was his response.

"If it was ice cold and then get hot too fast, it can split. I’ve seen loads of watermelon that have a lot of split, or exploded melons."

 

[indimom]

Not a watermelon, but I've learned to be very, very picky when I choose a pumpkin, and I never ever bring them in the house after an incident about 18 years ago. They get no further than my front porch.

I got a large pumpkin at a pumpkin patch with the kids. It was too early to carve (maybe 2 weeks before Halloween?), so I set it on the dining room table with some other fall décor. A few days later as I'm walking through the dining room, I notice a "spill" under the table. It was strange because it was directly under the middle of the table, I couldn't figure out how something spilled there and not around the edges... then I realized the spill was directly under the "seam" where you place extra table leaves, and our pumpkin was sitting directly on top of the seam...
I picked up the pumpkin and it was rotting from a hole in the bottom and leaking nastiness plus a few maggots. Shudder. That was horrifying to clean up.... Shudder.

The messiest thing I've ever seen explode in a kitchen was when I was a teen. My mom used to make homemade chicken and noodles in a pressure cooker. The pot exploded (luckily when no one was in the kitchen...) and sprayed the entire kitchen, floor to ceiling, in greasy chicken broth. We scrubbed for hours to get rid of the oily coating.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Wow I have never heard of anything like this.

 

[kdonnel]

Back during Desert Storm a lot of troops were coming and going from Fort Benning. My dads department was responsible for providing meals for the traveling troops. His departments normal kitchen was overwhelmed so they reopened dining facilities that had been moth balled years ago. Food suppliers were also donating food and supplies to the point that some dining facilities were reopened just for additional walk in cooler and freezer space.

An entire walk in cooler of watermelon got donated and put in an isolated building and got forgotten and the power turned off.

Fast forward a few months and they needed that building again for storage.

My dad opened the walk in cooler door and rancid liquified watermelon poured out. He quickly closed the door and drove to the reception station. There he picked up a truck full of soldiers who were on some minor medical hold waiting for the next basic training class to start after they were cleared for training. One of their first duties in the Army was cleaning out a walk in cooler that held 100 liquified rancid watermelons.

 

[Owlpost23]

Sounds like a fermented watermelon to me.