{"id":1032,"date":"2012-12-09T11:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T11:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2019-07-25T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T07:26:13","slug":"ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3326 aligncenter\" title=\"pic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pic4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"313\" \/><strong>CARL P. ASKS: A friend of mine insists that \u201cwatermelon jerky\u201d is a real thing. I\u2019ve heard of dried fruit, but have you ever heard of this?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Carl, I have heard of watermelon jerky and I can assure you that it is indeed <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/try-this-dried-watermelon-152025\">a real thing<\/span>. To make it, you take thinly sliced pieces of watermelon and dry them in a dehydrator for about 12 hours, just like you would with any other fruit or meat.<\/p>\n<p>On the surface, it sounds strange. After all, watermelon is 92 percent water, so you\u2019d think that removing that water would result in some kind of weird, barely edible nugget made up of whatever the other eight percent of watermelon is, but that\u2019s not entirely true.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been lucky enough to sample watermelon jerky on a few occasions, and I can tell you with certainty that it\u2019s delicious. The dehydration process does remove much of the water, but it leaves behind the good stuff \u2013 mainly the watermelon taste and sweetness. The result is a chewy, candylike snack that\u2019s intensely sweet and flavorful.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t own a dehydrator, but if I did, I\u2019d be making watermelon jerky at this very moment. I\u2019d probably try to dehydrate all sort of other things, including bananas, tomatoes, chocolate cake and lasagna, so that\u2019s probably why my wife still hasn\u2019t purchased a dehydrator as a gift for me. Should I take matters into my own hands and buy one for myself? Yes, I think I should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARL P. ASKS: A friend of mine insists that \u201cwatermelon jerky\u201d is a real thing. I\u2019ve heard of dried fruit, but have you ever heard of this? &nbsp; Yes, Carl, I have heard of watermelon jerky and I can assure you that it is indeed a real thing. To make it, you take thinly sliced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING? - What About Watermelon?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING? - What About Watermelon?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CARL P. ASKS: A friend of mine insists that \u201cwatermelon jerky\u201d is a real thing. I\u2019ve heard of dried fruit, but have you ever heard of this? &nbsp; Yes, Carl, I have heard of watermelon jerky and I can assure you that it is indeed a real thing. To make it, you take thinly sliced [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"What About Watermelon?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-12-09T11:06:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-25T07:26:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"502\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"The Watermelon Guy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"The Watermelon Guy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"The Watermelon Guy\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3f87b9c2334e9fafb449128a814a665\"},\"headline\":\"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING?\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-09T11:06:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-25T07:26:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/\"},\"wordCount\":267,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/\",\"name\":\"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING? - What About Watermelon?\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-12-09T11:06:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-25T07:26:13+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3f87b9c2334e9fafb449128a814a665\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg\",\"width\":540,\"height\":502},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/\",\"name\":\"What About Watermelon?\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3f87b9c2334e9fafb449128a814a665\",\"name\":\"The Watermelon Guy\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/960fdebd230bf336d877193bb525115c5f953189175cc64ebea136cb4b173c99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/960fdebd230bf336d877193bb525115c5f953189175cc64ebea136cb4b173c99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/960fdebd230bf336d877193bb525115c5f953189175cc64ebea136cb4b173c99?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"The Watermelon Guy\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING? - What About Watermelon?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING? - What About Watermelon?","og_description":"CARL P. ASKS: A friend of mine insists that \u201cwatermelon jerky\u201d is a real thing. I\u2019ve heard of dried fruit, but have you ever heard of this? &nbsp; Yes, Carl, I have heard of watermelon jerky and I can assure you that it is indeed a real thing. To make it, you take thinly sliced [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/","og_site_name":"What About Watermelon?","article_published_time":"2012-12-09T11:06:22+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-07-25T07:26:13+00:00","og_image":[{"width":540,"height":502,"url":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"The Watermelon Guy","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"The Watermelon Guy","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/"},"author":{"name":"The Watermelon Guy","@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3f87b9c2334e9fafb449128a814a665"},"headline":"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING?","datePublished":"2012-12-09T11:06:22+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-25T07:26:13+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/"},"wordCount":267,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg","articleSection":["General"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/","url":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/","name":"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING? - What About Watermelon?","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg","datePublished":"2012-12-09T11:06:22+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-25T07:26:13+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3f87b9c2334e9fafb449128a814a665"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pic41-1.jpg","width":540,"height":502},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/ask-the-experts-is-watermelon-jerky-a-real-thing\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ASK THE EXPERTS: IS WATERMELON JERKY A REAL THING?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/","name":"What About Watermelon?","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d3f87b9c2334e9fafb449128a814a665","name":"The Watermelon Guy","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/960fdebd230bf336d877193bb525115c5f953189175cc64ebea136cb4b173c99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/960fdebd230bf336d877193bb525115c5f953189175cc64ebea136cb4b173c99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/960fdebd230bf336d877193bb525115c5f953189175cc64ebea136cb4b173c99?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"The Watermelon Guy"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}