Charentais Melon Review - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 190 

charentais is eaten with charcuterie and cheese over here in france, you can even salt it a bit.

Cool!!! I grow the Charentais melon. For me, it tastes like caramel and honey, probably because I let them get super ripe on the vine. It does also have a musky flavor as you describe. But you can't beat the true flavor of a super ripe charentai! You should try heirloom watermelons. My favorites are Ali Baba and Orangeglo, both of which I grow! Omg amazing! Come to California in the summertime and you'll be treated to a gazillion different fruits at farmer's markets.

What do you do besides twisting yourself into a pretzel and looking through the universe for strange fruit?

Growing this one for the first time this year. I can't wait to try it.

we have lemonade from lemons, why can't we have melonade from melons? i think the juice is the best part 🤤

To pronounce Charentais just don't say the S at the end and you're close enough.

when we go to a store and wan't to buy a melon in France we choose them by smelling them and we choose the ones that smell the sweeter, we can eat them in many diffenrent ways but most of the times we eat it by it's own or with Prosciutto, and it just goes perfectly with the melon (and if you come to France in summer you'll find them almost everywhere and they will be quite cheap)

Having had really good muskmelons in the past, I know that savory/umami flavor you were trying to describe. I really want to try this melon now, it sounds amazing!

Thanks for these videos! I always enjoy learning about the different fruits in the world. Keep up the good work! Heres to hoping you enjoy many achachas and no nonis!

Knock knock? Who's there? Cantaloupe. Cantaloupe who? Cantaloupe now, Dad's got the car!

The word cantalope is not often used for American melons here in Australia. We use the term "Rock melon", due to the colouring & netting making it looking similar to a rock.

We’re growing these thus year on our organic farm. My husband saw your face while trying to describe its musky, savory taste and said. “Great, you’re growing a melon that tastes like a Frenchman’s armpit.” Hahaha!!!

always enjoy your videos .Thanks for taking the time to introduce us to various fruits.

Melissa's Produce has featured this Delicious Melon and they are grown in summer at a farm in North Carolina. They were a little larger then a Grapefruit.

in Australia we call cantelope "rock melon" and theres a smooth skinned variety we call "honey dew melon"

I’m growing these in my garden! 😍

Thanks for another awesome video Jared.

Umami is the taste I think that fits with these melons, (when you mentioned the savor of it.) I grew some and they're really neat. Very aromatic

You have to try Sugar Kiss melons. They're primarily grown in Arizona commercially, and can be purchased in a lot of places in the US. They're also very popular in Taiwan, where they were bred, as well as Singapore, and I believe they are in Japan as well. These melons are OFF THE CHART sweet, super juicy, and melts in your mouth.

Save the seeds and grow them. I’ve had great luck growing seeds from grocery store melons!

Never tried this one. The best melon I've had was labeled Sharalyn or something similar. I've seen others posting about the same melon saying it was the best they've had as well. See if you can find one to review!

Is that the melon Cindy Crawford uses in her meaningful beauty product?

I’m growing this in our garden 😁

in france we eat those with bayonne ham it's so good

The netted melons without ribs are known in the trade as Western [or California] shipping type melons, with ribs are eastern [non-shipping] type muskmelons. Although even this has started to change in the last decade.

Awesome

Charentay - silent 'S' ;-)

great video!!!

i would just like to say that you have chosen one of the great paths in life... loving fruit...may i call you Brother??? please forgive me if i missed it...??? but did you mention the name of the cultivar...??? I've got a bunch of these guys growing in my garden... growing melons has become this years obsession because i have failed at every attempt of my life... i thought about it and growing watermelon was the very first plant i ever wanted to grow from childhood... for some of us the fruit obsession drives one to cultivate a delicious space around oneself so that the god garden sun soil and spirit communion thing can truly happen... so even though all good fruits are invited there are some cultivars that mean so much to a culture or just a special unique clan in a remote or secretive pocket... i've just got the Savor cultivar that you can buy from Johnny's... I grew up in Florida ate watermelon till i was sick of it every summertime picnik at the Southern Baptist Church i grew up in...pretty sure watermelon has made it into some translations of the Bible...??? somewhere??? because it is just so beloved by all... especially if you lived before the age of mass air conditioning and you had to survive outside in the wild as a child... anytime a plate of watermelon slices showed up as a parental "stay outside longer" bribe we attacked it like a school of piranyas... washed it down with gardenhose water... good melons might just be the Holy Grail of this whole fruit world...??? I doubt it... but??? ...???????? I'm gonna get serious and try to watch all of your videos... this is one of the coolest things about how you satisfy your niche excitements in life... fruit hunting... to me its what life is all about... thanks for making videos... i couldn't do it... not handsome enough... Cheers

What is the melon they are calling Tuscan Cantaloupe? I is what was common in stores when I was a child. It has the lines that are indented and the skin has very smooth fine mesh. Not like what is common in stores today without the lines with a heavy mesh that are called cantaloupe. Also when I lived in Illinois they sold what they called musk melons. Look about the same as a cantaloupe a little larger and very watery flesh. Confused and going to finish the watermelon in my fridge!

have you ever had Spanish limes

What is the name of the fruit you are holding on your youtube profile pic? & do you have a link to a video you did on it?

Great video, I love seeing all the fruit from around the world that you find! P.S. Charentais =sha-ron-té By “on,” I mean the nasalized vowel. The n consonant shouldn’t actually be pronounced.

This is the melon used in Cindy Crawford's ant-aging beauty serum. I think it's called Ageless Beauty. Anyway, grerat review Jared.

All the melons i buy at Kroger heb and the Brookshire bros are very underperformed and some ripen like cantaloupe but to find or ripen a honeydew is rare also there are new varieties of melons at heb any one try them i like weird fruit explorers vids..

I found one of those once.

Is there a pill form of benefits of that melon?

The next and previous video links aren't showing up for me at the end.

have you ever try a sugar kiss melon? they are one of the best melons I have tried.

Picking up a good melon is a huge and controversial thing on French summer markets. Some say you got to look for a wide patch on the bottom of the fruit, because it is allegedly a female melon (?!). But a legend says those ones are very difficult to find because they would be kept for restaurants in priority, so that they have tasty and sweet melons to offer. And of course, everyone in the South of France has his little secret to recognize a good one.

i want to see a mouse melon video i have never tried one.

I understand why we started calling "Musk Melon" Cantaloupe, musk melon doesn't sound very appetizing

Hey just wanted to see again I love ur vids

I love melons

These melons are extremly delicious if you find the right one, however even in France you have to care about finding the right one, as mediocre melons are not very pleasant to eat as they are hard in texture and bland in taste. If you have a good one, they are generally eaten as an "entrée" between the "apéritif" and the main dish, and can be eaten with ham, although the fruit on it's own is tasty enough if you have a good one.

Does this come in pill form?

feels good to be number three

Does Michael have wings?

We call them rockmelons in Australia

My cat likes to eat cantaloupe

Can you do a review on Hala Fruit?

It's probably the time for you to invest on at least 720p capable video camera

Quiet and eat the damn melon

Oh I luv melons!!!!!! Da milky kind.... sorry for da bad joke...

There are so many varieties on melons. here is a link to Baker Creek heirloom seeds, ( I am not affiliated with them, just pointing out all the unique heirloom varieties.) there is a few pages of melon seeds. yes they have the Charentais also, and some really other cool looking ones. www.rareseeds.com/search/?F_Keyword=melon

That's a ridiculous price.