Making Water Melon Jelly - Question: "What does every step do and are they ALL necessary?"

The might be reasons why she does what she does, or she is doing it, because "This is the way we have always done it" - or both...

But I think gutting the mellon, pureeing the entire thing with a potato masher - because I love the seeds and the fibre, and then converting a heated solution to a gelatin and then a fast cooling - would be better, easier, faster and less steps.

I'd go whole plant and would not filter anything..

I cannot see the reasons for deep frying it etc..

AND damn, water melon as a cold jelly - that is both a FRUIT, a DESERT and a MAIN MEAL....

Fuck it's good.

Maybe there are good reasons, maybe it's just a silly idea... I don't know.

Perhaps - try both.