Why YSK: These tips may help you pick a more ripe, juicier, sweeter watermelon.
This was bullshit the first 2000 times it was posted to reddit and it’s still bullshit here.
Show us on the watermelon where the internet hurt you
I just roll my eyes at it now.
FYI there is no reliable way to tell if a watermelon is ripe after it is harvested. The most reliable indicator is the tendril on the node the peduncle is attached to. When it is fully dry, the fruit is ready.
Even on lemmy people still aren’t bothering to fact check things. Disappointing.
Okay how can I tell which watermelon 🍉 is best for insertion ???
The markets where I buy are confident enough in their product that they cut the one you want to taste before you buy. I’ve never found a more reliable method than that.
Nah, I’m just going to continue doing what I’ve always done: tapping the watermelon to hear the sound and pretend that I know what I’m doing.
I’ll just remember “pick the most fucked up looking melon with patchy orange spots and ugly crisscross webbing”. It’s probably not going to make the photo reel but it’ll taste good.
The ugly ones usually taste better, just check that the ugliness isn’t caused by molds
Never eat them, horrible watery bullshit and more effort than they’re worth.
However, a very much appreciated post because my wife loves them and if this is true, I can become the Watermelon Wizard
Thanks, possibly:)
Where’s the part where you slap it?
That’s between you and the watermelon, leave me out of your racy play.
None of these visual methods are reliable as these things differ greatly amongst melon varieties. The easiest way is just to knock on the watermelon like you would a door, if it sounds hollow on the inside, then it’s ripe.
This was definitely a topic of conversation at your 4th of July event.
Fruit don’t have “genders,” this is complete bullshit
I spent a season working in a packing house for watermelons. They’d come in by the crateload and we were allowed to just grab one to eat any time we wanted.
The trick I was taught, and which proved to be pretty reliable over the course of the season, was to feel the veins. (This is possibly what’s being described as webbing here?) Watermelons aren’t smooth, they have wide “veins” running top to bottom and you can feel them if you put your hand flat on the side of the melon. The bigger/poofier/wider the veins, the more ripe is it.
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Sus
Tell me more about your veiny melons.
As it turns out my wife’s melons haven’t ripened even after dozens of years. : /
now do a honeydew
The outside of the honeydew should also be tacky, like you can pick it up with one hand. If it’s smooth and slippery, it’s not ripe.
Anyone know where I can find those sweet and juicy webbed females?
Bradford Watermelons was always my favorite. We’d get all sorts from them, but the watermelons would make it to the tasting menu.
https://bradfordwatermelons.com/
They also sold green runner peanuts before the pandemic.
Finally now I know my melons gender, now I won’t get in trouble on twitter
Stop misgendering melons!
In my family we just slap the watermelons
That is non of our business do what you like
Don’t be melon dramatic
