How to pick a sweet and juicy watermelon | 3 things to look for | How to cut watermelon into cubes 

Oh wow, remember when me and my cousins were children, every 4th July, we all went to my granny's house for, well sorry don't remember the food that much, that was back in the late 60s, early 70s, but there's 3 things I do remember 1-playing under granny's weeping Willow tree, we all loved that 1-my aunt Mona would make homemade ice cream and the ICE cream maker wasn't electric and 3rd, my favorite -them cutting that big water melon, those were the days🫶🙏

Nonsense. It is EXTREMELY difficult to see the difference between green and brown. Been there done that.

Weight to size is more important than his tapping. If it’s lighter than expected, your melon hasn’t developed the sugars yet. Super heavy and she’s full of those crystal molecules

And the hollow tapping sound lol 😂😂😂😂

​The yellow spot and the hollow sound at tapping is how I have picked watermelons for years. Now I will also look for the brown belly button. I've looked at the stem to make sure it wasn't green but didn't know about the belly button. ❤

Yep, Daddy was always "Daddy" in our house....Still is all these many Decades later.

@Lewis Levits I just came back after buying 3 watermelons 🍉, and cut the first one and found it perfect!

@lewislevits1193 That's where the melon rested...lol.

@Lewis Levits No. As mentioned in earlier Blogs here, it's where the melon was laying on the ground.... (NO sunlight).

THIS DUDE IS COMPLETELY WRONG. I used to pick up watermelons by the truck load at the biggest watermelon farm in America. These are the actual steps the owner taught me to look for depending on what use you have for the watermelon. If all you want is the sweetest watermelon. 1. There are males and females. The females are typically smaller rounder and sweeter. Disfigured spheres refer to a lack of nutrients (less sweet) 2.This one is actually two part. The palm should be a yellow preferably with over pollinated lines on it. A palm that's too dark of a yellow will be grainy with a much thinner rhine as it is over ripe. A palm that's too light means the fruit texture will be rubbery sour as it is under ripe. 3. Your looking for a deep healthy green color. 4. The button on the root button should be brown not black and brittle to your fingers.

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Me too, love my watermelon 🫶✌️

I eat one a week too. ❤

Watermelon is actually very good for you! A doc once cured my grandmother of stones by putting her on a 3-day watermelon-only diet! Very cleansing and hydrating,

@@MsMarple What kind of stones?

Me tooooo learnt😊

Thank you so much for the tips….can you share when is the best time to buy a watermelon and the different types of melon. I live in FL and the the watermelon sold at Publix was the worst tasting melon.

From what I know, the thing he calls "rind", the pale part just below the skin, is edible too; juicy crunchy, but not sweet. I have wondered about the seed shells though.

Wasteful way to cut.

Learned

Look for webbing as well

YES!!!!! THIS WAS SOOO WELL WORTH THE TIME!!❤

The yellow spot shows that the watermelon was sitting in the spot long enough to become yellow and wasn't harvested too early and injected with crap. All the signs(including the brown bellybutton) to prove the watermelon sat long enough and wasn't harvested too soon

@@rafon. None are injected with anything I ever heard of. that said, the yellow spot can be different if the plant was moved, or if the soil is different. Maybe if you know what field it came out of and what the range for that field is you might have a weak data point. getting them from random fields at a store this means next to nothing. Hey you do you though.

@@GrowDespiteTrauma-fh8wz Actually we did sometimes when weeding. The daughter took over the farm and she didnt like using so many chemicals. LOL still though even ignoring that the type of soil it was sitting on makes a huge difference.

So what am I looking for then??

@@268sjh Well the thing they called the brown bellybutton is somewhat of an indicator. Seeing sticky sappy stuff, generally tells you it should be a sweet one. Personally though its like most other fruits. Buy local in season stuff for the best ripest stuff. The melon farmers KNOW they are picking them under ripe. They last longer in shipping. A half decent local farmer isnt going to have that issue and is dramatically more likely to actually pick ripe ones. with water melon in particular, going with a seeded variety will also give you much better results.

Watermelon doesn't ripen any further once picked, so carefully choosing a good melon is a great talent to have. Don't forget the webbing. That's a sign of a melon that has bern fertilized twice, or more, and has then doubled its sugar content. I've had some that were so sweet, it was like candy. Look it up. It's true. Put "webbing on watermelons" on Google, and you'll see.

THANKS. I was wondering about that

It silmply means that it is the part that was on the ground when it was growing.

very very true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@mr.stonerUDX714 , One of my best friends in the ARMY had the last name Stoner. Great guy with a great wife, and daughter. Imagine that name on your BDU's as they call out names. "Stoner....Stoner......is there a Stoner here?

Hello I live in Mississippi

I do, too! Great advice on picking out watermelons!

I grew up in Tennessee and knew Cas Walker. Haven’t heard that name for 60 years. He had a talent show and Dolly Parton was on it

@@jeangill1187 Yes l remember seeing her on it. There are RU-vid videos of him. He was quite a character.

The squeeze technique absolutely works. I buy the ones that have no give when squeezed.

@@peeshrow4681 Yup! 👍🏽👍🏽

🍉🍉🍉 mmm yummy. Good on you Christian 👍

You are definitely an experienced housewife or a good farmer.

Same here... I hold the watermelon in my hand and thump it with my fingers on the under side, then listen close to the top of it. You can definitely hear if it's dense - no 'echo' My grandfather showed me as a kid, what to hear. 😊

Oh boy, with this method, there’ll be multiple clean ups isle watermelon nationwide. Or signs posted “if you drop it, you’re paying for it.” 😂

Exactly! I only buy seeded ones! I hate food modification

You chew and eat the seeds?

​@@percyhawkins716sometimes. They have a mild nutty flavor

@@katherinehenry1480 I'll have to try that next time, thanks.

Great comment, I agree. I believe they are more healthy & sweeter eating them while still alive on the vine,

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Jkkkj job

Cut in half. Cut off a round. Cut round in half or quarters. Serve on plate..

She's lucky to have such a caring and helpful husband!

@@bakerferris 😅

Yep! Seen many of these!

Yes, but I can't imagine a soft exterior could give you that hollow sound. I'm curious now to test that. Thx.

Good to know

Wow, John!-- Thanks for that tip! Because I have had mushy watermelon and it's the worst!😝

Needed this yesterday, bought a watermelon 🍉 and it was horrible 😣

I have an aunt, who agrees with you. She salts all fruit, but I think it's gross.

​@@nonmihiseddeo4181 Salt and lime is the way to go! Yum!

I grew up in Michigan, we always salted watermelon and apples! Yum!

Yes bit of salt ...

hell no , disgusting 😂

wash with mild soapy water and let rest for an hour in cold icy water bowl.

So many people got sick and several died from salmonella on the outside rind. The knife was the carrier of the germ

Good to know

Yes, and care must be taken when slicing potatoes and your knife goes through one that has dark-colored goo in the center. Or any color goo, for that matter, lol.

Absolutely wash with soapy water, then rinse well in RUNNING WATER. Not a sinkful, bowl, or pan of water. The trucks they are hauled in to the stores can be and frequently are loaded with god knows what from hauling only god knows what. Dirty trucks can contaminate your food. Wash your food as soon as you get it home, and don't put in into your storage spaces until you know it's clean. I know a family who lost their entire faŕm and livelyhood because the hauling trucks were contaminated and the mellons made some people very sick. Stuff happens. Don't be sstupid, nasty and greedy by suing someone when you yourself fail yo adhere to safe food practices. Good old fashioned logic says wash your hands before you eat, for good reason. Wash your food, too.

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@Prospermiinow Yes, clear explanation, but inaccurate. It is misinformation. The light-colored spot on the bottom of a watermelon is the 'ground spot." The color varies not only with ripeness, but also with the variety of watermelon. For one variety a rich yellow color will indicate full ripeness, for another variety anything deeper yellow than very pale yellow will indicate the melon is overripe - you'll have mush inside instead of crispness. You have to know what variety you are dealing with, and most of the time the shipping containers will not tell you the variety. Just because 2 melons look very much the same does not mean they are of the same variety. The only way to tell the variety is to get the info from the company that supplied the seed, and that info is not often available at the marketplace. You can ask the merchant, but they are often mistaken. They may just make something up, or they may have been misled by a middle-merchant, or even by a farmer.

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That's how my wife picked me.

Good one lol 👍

Where was her yellow spot? LOL

Wow, that's real Marketing!

Thank you very much for your support!

😂😂😂😂😂 true

LG, yes that's true, but of little help after you've already bought it! I'm in my seventies and when I was young, we only bought watermelons at a roadside watermelon stand. We always made a deep triangle cut in the melon and tasted it. Now the melons we buy are at the grocery store and usually they are picked way too early.

@@AKHWJ3ST or you just suck at picking watermelons

You should feel a slight vibration when you tap it rather than just a thud.

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Hi Rob, well I've never actually seen any of those around here. All the watemelons we get are all perfect and round. I did see that once when we were in a little rural town on a road trip - they were all oddly shaped. Thanks for the tip.

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Melons that are not uniform or size. Sometimes they favor bowling pens.

Never knew that, thanks for the tip!

I've seen elongated watermelons before that were larger on one end but never knew why. Thanks for sharing this vid and the comments. 👍

Never heard of it . Never saw any of what you say in 78 years on earth .

lolololololol sounds like you are describing your head that has NO BRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the tips. Only knew out of three. I’ll pass this along.

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Thank you!

I use an unused pedal bin liner and then place the melon half in a large bowl just in case there is any leakage.

Thank you for being a caring husband to her.

I am puzzled by this, maybe you know the answer.. I bought a melon with the spot as bright as the sun.. a couple days later the spot was gone and it just looks like the rest of the melon.. is that normal??

Bee stings...what you are saying is dead on !

@Dave Jacques I thought they stopped ripening if they are picked.. I was thinking I was tricked 🤣.. I will cut it tomorrow and I thank you for the response..

I use this along with the brown end and yellow spot.

That yellow spot isn’t always the best indicator either. Sometimes if it is too pronounced the melon is overly ripe.

I appreciate your kind words. Thanks for watching!

Yes, my wife loves watermelon with salt on it.

Not healthy with salt, take the nutrients away

A squeeze of lime too. I only read somewhere and wanted to try it but every time I get me a watermelon I just refuse to change the flavor I’m after. 😁🍉

Body you wrong about most only right the yellow spot LOL???????

Thanks for sharing.

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