I just bought a watermelon yesterday and we talked about the spot on it and what people say. I just hoped for the best and picked one. great video and now I know!!!!
awesome video! I'm a produce guy for a company for over 27years.... and I always do the straw show to allot of my customers at work! and you know what it works!!! great to see this on video!! keep up the great work my fellow produce guy!
Best watermelon is at the start of summer, depending where you live. The first rain before the summer ends signifies the end season for watermelon. Also if you flick the watermelon and it sounds crisp its sweet but when it sounds broad its full of water. We used to sell melons and coconut before.
It's not just slapping it. You feel it for vibrations. That "springiness" is correlated to how much it vibrates. So if it vibrates as you slap it and it springs back at you, you know you got a good watermelon.
The broom hay stran really works, i wouldn't have believed it, I have seen it turned vertical with my own eyes. It was something my grandmother showed me when I was a little boy. Do I do straw every every time I buy a 🍉, no. But it works!!
I'm not American, I'm from Brazil. I live in Brazil. All we listen here about America is that food is industrialized, that you don't have good food, etc., and it is nice to watch a video like that, that shows us that there is an America other than the movies and mediatic America. By the way, I was watching your video because I am a translator, and I was trying to figure how they call that watermelon with the peel that looks like a rattlesnake. In Brazil, it is called "Cascavel da Georgia" (Georigia's Rattlesnake), since it was brought to Brazil by American immigrants that came to Brazil after the end of Civil War. Congrats from Brazil!
kashif zaman hi. Food in Brazil varies from place to place, since Brazil is a huge country. I'm from São Paulo, which is a big city just like NY or LA, so you can find junk food as well as a great variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, since we are located south from the tropics, so weather is balanced. We have sun the entire year with some colder weather in Winter, but not for a long time and it never goes below 50F°. If you go down to the South, closer to Argentina, you'll find more severe and longer Winter days. If you g all the way up o North, it gets warmer, just like in the Caribbean Islands, so, we can grow practically any kind of food throughout the country, 12 months of the year ;)
I remember these kinds of watermelons. Sweet, juicy, the seeds, they where so delicious. Nowadays I can only find boring, seedless, tasteless melons where I live. 😞
Great video Dan! I appreciate your warm enthusiasm for delicious watermelon :) YUM! Wish I lived in Alameda. I don't know if you read these comments. I live up in Sonoma County and I wonder whose produce stand you would pay homage to up here if you were in the area? I appreciate the tip if you've got a minute and you are "In The Know" ! Stay Awesome
Thank you Michael, Andy's is the only produce market that I can think of in your area that would carry them. These older varieties are not grown widespread anymore. Their size gets to 40+ lbs at times and the work involved is treacherous (for today's workers). It takes small specialty growers to produce these varieties. This is the reason that you do not see them in many stores anymore.
I gave up and just downloaded an app for that! Its still a bit tricky as it only detects if the watermelon is red or not, which is not always what determines the quality. It told me the other day that the watermelon was not ripe but when I cut it open it was sweet as anything!
Hey Dan..great video!!..love your crazy energy n enthusiasm!!..Question for you?..we live in the desert so we usually have to buy GMO watermelons from chain grocerie stores or Wal-Mart n most of the watermelons come from Mexico..sometimes they are sweet sometimes not..Dose your advice still apply to these types of melons?..can you give me your best tips and advice for picking the sweetest GMO watermelons? Thank you!! :-)
These watermelons are old varieties that the grocery stores do not handle. I am not sure if the same applies to GMO melons since the they have been altered.
So high sugar content in a wheat field will produce crop circles? And what about 3D crop circles, sugar with magnesium? Tap the melon, it should vibrate, there is a sound, high pitched, the melon vibrates. If the melon 🍉 is overripe it’ll thud, like tapping a pillow, this means the cell structure has deteriorated and water inside is no longer compartmentalized within the cell structure, the cell walls (the meat) are waterlogged.
Watermelon Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus is ascrambling and trailing vine in the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae. The species originated in southern Africa, where there is evidence of its cultivation in Ancient Egypt. It is grown in tropical and sub-tropical areas worldwide for its large edible fruit, also known as a watermelon, which is a special kind ofberry with a hard rind and no internal division,botanically called a pepo. The sweet, juicy flesh is usually deep red to pink, with many black seeds. The fruit can be eaten raw or pickled and the rind is edible after cooking. Considerable breeding effort has been put into disease-resistant varieties and into developing a "seedless" strain with only digestible white seeds. Many cultivars are available that produce mature fruit within 100 days of planting the crop.
best way to tell it is fresh...is that..it must have greenish branch...and the watermelon look very oily...and fresh watermelon doesnt break so easily though...i pluck watermelon fresh from the farm...not from market..
first time seeing golden watermelon.... must be tasty.... my second favorite after he king...Mango we ask them(vendors) to get a cut(before buying) to confirm it whether its red or not😂😂
