Why YSK: These tips may help you pick a more ripe, juicier, sweeter watermelon.
The fuck is a “male” plant ovary?
Morgan Freeman taught me to flick melons to determine the ripeness in Unleashed, and I have honed the skill to a masterful level. Get weird looks from strangers sometimes tho…
Sounds like a great way to get sick or spread sickness.
Maybe if you’re Immuno-compromised, have bad hand hygiene practices, or go around people when you’re sick.
going around licking public display foods is bad hygiene practices tbh.
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.
Tell me more about your veiny melons.
As it turns out my wife’s melons haven’t ripened even after dozens of years. : /
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.
