If you buy a watermelon using these tips, let me know your experience! I also have a video on how to tell if a pineapple is ripe: ua-cam.com/video/-0Y2hmvaTAI/v-deo.html and How to grow a pineapple from the top of another pineapple: ua-cam.com/video/hp86SrwXYPU/v-deo.html
Daisy Creek Farms with Jag Singh Thanks for watermelon tips. I usually grow my own. But Midwest weather last year really played hell on everyone's gardens. This year is looking better so going back over alot of your growing tips on everything started from only seeds. Except tomatoes. Wish me luck. Had to redo soil conditions this year due to the fact I live in a red clay soil area that drives you crazy growing things. Your tips helped solve that issue for me as well. Again thanks.
Thanks for this video 👍I never knew this...I always did the thump test on the watermelon🍉 but wasn't sure what I was listening for 😂😂😂 I even thought it may have been an old wise tale 😂😂😂 guess you could say I was thumping for good luck and because mostly it was a wise tale tradition to thump🍉 🤣🤣🤣 so glad I can inspect and thump a watermelon now and actually look like a professional now 🍉🍉😂🍉🍉
Also press on the blossom end. It will show signs of age more than the sides. An overripe melon will have an area around the blossom end with pronounced softness.
Larry Tischler thanks for that. So is that a good or a bad thing? I bought one yesterday checking all the signs as to the video. Wasn’t very sweet. I live in uk.
Thanks man. Explained just in 2 minutes. Some people out there can expand that into a 50min video, where they start the story at the beginning of the universe.
I've helped pick watermelons for over 20 years on my friends garden for farmers market. I agree with most of what you say except for the stem. First thing we look for is if the curl on the stem has turned brown. If the stem itself is brown it indicates a dead vine. We never pick a melon from a dead vine (over ripe). If the thump sounds like a thud it is over ripe. The thump method becomes trickier on different varieties especially the smaller varieties. The fun part of helping pick the melons is that we cut and test some of them in the field to get a feel for what the thump should sound like for its variety. We always leave part of the stem on the melon so I can't verify what the spot looks like on the melon if stem is completely removed.
There you are ,,,, always one writing a novel about so long could make a video about it , armchair backseat driver,,, you read every bit of that off google
I love watermelon. I have one question…sometimes the melon is plenty red, and even plenty moist, but it is soft and “mushy,” such a disappointment! I like it sweet, moist, and firm! How do I avoid purchasing mushy watermelon? Is it too ripe, or not ripe enough, and how do I know? Thank you! You sound like a real expert!
@@cydkriletich6538 you have the same taste as me. On the video, when he say if pressing on watermelon make the rind has dent, it is ripe. I think we can know the watermelon is too ripe or not defending on how much force we use to press.
This is a gem of a UA-cam video. I wish more of them were this useful, informative, brief, and timely as the season will soon be here for water melons.
I was picking a good melon at the store last year using these methods and a customer came over & asked what I was doing. I gave him the quick tutorial and he thanked me. Here’s to good sweet watermelons! 🍉
I just showed my mom this video. I told her years ago that the best way to sweet and crunchy watermelons were to first look for the ones where the watermelon had a large yellow spot followed by thumping it for a hollow sound. She never caught on till I finally looked it up, today, and showed her this video. I learned this method from a farmer's market seller. I picked one and he told me I picked the wrong watermelon. He then looked through them and picked two of them for me explaining what to look for. Man, those two watermelons were like drinking sugar water.
Thank you for posting this. I was at the store and picked up a watermelon that I thought felt a bit soft. I found this video and decided to buy it. It turned out to be the sweetest and best tasting watermelon I've ever had.
This is what UA-cam was meant for. No gimmicks...no begging for likes..no telling us about how tired you are and how hot it is outside...just straight to the point knowledge
You can still use it for that, unfortunately there is so much videos, that it is hard to find something to the point like this. That is why I personally 2x and sometimes 3x a video.
vilod Thanks for this video. I have always been afraid to buy a watermelon because I had no idea about what to look for to make sure it was ripe. Now I know!
CeeCee Nunya prettiest I’ve have ever seen has been in Colombia 🇨🇴 I don’t like 🍉 but there Omg I thought it was a different fruit ! But if I find one like he suggest I will give it another try at home .
Thank you! I love this type of video. Please do more short videos telling us how to look for the most ripe and flavorful produce in the market. I'd also like to see more short videos telling gardeners how and when to look for signs of how and when to harvest various types of crops. These are so helpful to novice gardeners like me!
I'm confused. He said if it has a green stem but pointed to a brown one. And then said if it has a brown stem but pointed to a green one. I'm confused. Did he get it backward or am I misinterpreting it
Thank you so much for giving all the good information in a nice short format, very well done. Most of these videos are 4+ times as long filled with time wasting information for many of us. Thanks again and well done.
Don't know what happen to people these days. I saw a 'rescue sea turtles from barnacle project' video and it had thousand of dislikes. I mean, wtf, they are trying to save sea turtles why the dislike? People can be so thoughtless smh
@@johnlabu1154 I saw one where after they saved the turtle they threw the plastic back in...and almost everyone was complaining about that... Its always something...!
Thank you for this information… I grew up on a farm and the watermelon patch was sacred. We didn’t go into it without our father or grandfather!! I learned most of that which you shared from them but I’m much older now and I had forgotten a few of those tips, so I thank you ever so much for this brief but to the point and very informative video❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ Great job😊♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
@Jag Singh, You described it just right. Your tips can help a buyer to never be disappointed when they want to bring a delicious watermelon home. My husband who grew up on a farm where his family grew many fruits and vegetables taught me when we were first married how to pick a good melon with those same suggestions. It works ! Thanks for sharing great advice.
As a watermelon lover I appreciate the brief but informative video. It’s just what I needed. I have only used the thumping method and do ok with it most of the time. Having a couple more things to consider will improve my ability to select better watermelons! Thanks!
His demonstration is partial. What he had to do is buying the both watermelons and show that the yellow patched one is better than the green stemmed one without a yellow patch. It is hard to do a good demonstration and saving money at the same time.
my way of trying to remember this forever is by the 3 S... Stem, Sun spot, Sound when tapped. ty for this info it's very helpful, no more stale tasting water melons!
1. - Good info delivered fast. Excellent. 2. - Got to the point fast. Excellent. 3. - Overall impression - Excellent. Please keep up the good work mate.
Having picked these things for many years I can tell you that yellow spot on top is what was called a sunburn- happens when thier in the field a long time with no rain or cloud cover an get burnt- the "plug" means nothing- if it's long an straggly it was pulled off the vine an not cut- we cut ours- the yellow"belly" it's called is where it sat on the ground will be ripe an you did get one right the sound- it's a very distinct sound when thier ripe an after years of picking these things your learn there's a certain dull look to a ripe one- when walking the fields you can spot a ripe one from 15 feet just from its look
thanks for sharing the tips! I have always looked for the yellow sun spot when i picked watermelon, but never knew about the other 2 tips... Love a ripe and sweet watermelon! especially the one that cracks before you even cut your knife all the way down...
I've talked to tons of produce clerks, and watched countless videos on this subject. The best advice are: #1 pick one that feels heavy for it's size... this by far has been the best and consistent method I've found. This goes along the lines of having more sugar/water content than one of similar size, but weigh less. #2, look for water melons with "scars" on them which is exuding sugar (dried thick black sugar/sap). I've not heard about the yellow spot, other than that's the part that sits on the ground (smaller the better, but being yellow - ripe makes sense, with white = unripe).
For most fruits, heavy for the size applies. Especially for citrus and other water heavy fruits. If it's something that you bite into and is juice, the heavy for the size thing is likely to work.
Totally agreed. I would pick the small yellow spot ones too, so sunshine reached more areas on them. The big yellow spots don't taste as good as they always sit on the ground behind the sun.
Thanks so much for this video. My Mom was the expert melon picker. I found out her Dad (my grandfather) grew watermelons, cantaloups and pumpkins in Europe. She could always pick a perfect melon but took her secret to the grave. I am grateful for this information. ❤ from 🇨🇦
I mean, technically we selectively bred it into the fruit you know today. It used to be mostly rind. "To taste a watermelon is to know “what the angels eat,” Mark Twain proclaimed. The angels, however, would have gagged if they had eaten the watermelon’s wild ancestor-a bitter fruit with hard, pale-green flesh. Generations of selective breeding, spanning several countries and cultures, produced the sweet red fruit that’s now a common sight on picnic tables."
Another tip I learned 55 years ago, with eggplants, tomatoes and squashes....look for the stem mark, a round one is a female full of seeds, an elongated one is male and has fewer seeds. It’s been accurate and makes a huge difference in the recipes.
@@maryc530 - As I said, the males have fewer seeds. It’s accurate. If you are making a tomato sauce, you want tomatoes with more pulp and fewer seeds. Same for eggplant recipes. More pulp, less seeds makes a much nicer result. Cucumbers, zucchini, peppers too. Here’s another tip I’ve taught my daughters when picking a spiral ham…..squeeze it. If it soft….it’s very fatty, if it’s firm…it’s lean. Works every time.
@M Chapman, I can't speak to the reason(s) behind your success in choosing those veggies based on your observations, but if it works for you, that's great! However, I'd like to try and explain some of the science and how there are no male eggplants, tomatoes or squashes, if anyone is interested. Those veggies are fruits, meaning they are the ripened ovary of the plant. Ovaries are female sex organs whether in plants or animals. The eggplant, tomato or squash we eat is the ovary that contains the seeds (in animals, these are eggs and we don't eat the ovary, just the egg). The male part of those plants is the male flowers which contain stamens that produce pollen (in animals this would be sperm). The pollen fertilizes the seeds. So, what we eat is the female part of the plant that holds the seeds (again, think of an ovary holding eggs). Some fruit will ripen without needing pollination, so they are what we call seedless, though the undeveloped seed is still there (think about the white seeds in seedless watermelon, where seedless more accurately means it has unfertilized, immature seeds). However, the amount of seeds in the fruit is dependent on the genetics of that variety. How developed the seeds are when the fruit is consumed will affect how prominent the seeds are to us and determine how or when we consume it. For example, we usually prefer to eat cucumbers with as undeveloped seed as possible. We control for that by picking before they get mature (most turn yellow, get bitter, and develop hardened seeds when fully ripe, nothing you want to eat). But, we can also grow varieties that can grow cukes without fertilization, a genetic trait called parthenocarpy. So when we harvest, as well as how many seeds a plant is genetically coded to have, are the factors affecting how seedy we perceive them to be. In general, when the seed has been fertilized, it developes as the fruit ripens. We may eat different fruit at different stages of ripeness, but the seed, whether fertilized or not, is there. That fruit is the female sex organ of those plants and they do not make male fruit, no more than a rooster can lay eggs.
Spot on! I worked my way through my undergrad working in a grocery store in the 90s - produce for most of the 7 years I was there. I learned everything you said there from various coworkers and customers along the way, along with a lot of testing in the back warehouse. One thing that was also a sure sign was if you strike the melon gently with a fairly sharp knife and it splits open, it’s a winner! I think that melons filled with water do this.
I get the idea that none of you shop in grocery stores. I worked there. I had to cut and wrap watermelon slices, halves, and quarters. When I cut them for that, I would know how they cut. I do however welcome all of you to go to a store and start cutting open melons. They’re not prosecuting crime in most major cities so you may all do as you wish.
Thank you cause I love watermelon ate it all my life but didn’t know a thing about picking one out and thank u for keeping it short and brief to the point and actually showing us an example good job 👏🏾
Another tip....Dont cut your watermelon up before you are ready to eat it. You can cut off what you want to eat, stand the rest up in a large bowl, place a sheet of plastic wrap over it and put it back in the fridge. This will keep all the water from running out and it becoming slimy. It will also last longer this way.
Been thumping my watermelons for years. People tried telling me that is not how you pick one. Just got told it was right here! Thank you for the tips!!!😁
I stopped by a street vendor in Goa, India (2016) and like you said the guy did a pyramid cut on the side of the melon put the skin-side on the tip of the knife and extended it to me. I thought he was giving it to me to taste it. But apparently not! He quickly put the plug back into the watermelon. Over there, they do it so they can show how red / ripe the fruit is inside!! Well that was awkward!!
Thank you!! Nothing worse than walking home w a couple of watermelons in 100 degree heat praying they are red & sweet only to be dissapointed 😢 Now I know ☺
View Bot # 34 And thinking your getting a red watermelon only to get a yellow one and it was not sweet ! I was creeped out by the color for some reason.
Grew my own watermelons for the first time this year. I picked one a couple weeks ago and it was not done yet! Thank you for this video because I watched it prior to going out and grabbing another one and this one was ready!
The vine will dry up where it is connected when it is ripe. Anything growing close to that connection should dry up. If you are the one doing the picking, this can help. ua-cam.com/video/2kjOnnhcLfs/v-deo.html This video explains
Thank you for showing a cut watermelon at the end. I don’t like when watermelon flesh gets “fluffy”, or mushy, so I tend to get them a little under-ripe.
It’s good too know all the handy tips when picking supposedly fresh fruits in your supermarket watermelon is surprisingly hard to figure out and good knowledge on these is a good tip in itself
Great video! Right to the point. One thing I would like to add, an old farmer once told me to look for signs of sap coming out of the cut stem. That will let you know that the watermelon is sweet.
Thank you for your clear simple instruction. I hope I remember them the next. Time I buy a watermelon.. LOL. PROBLEM.. I don't always want to purchase something too ripe. Because I may not eat it the same day I putvhad4 it. Especially a watermelon.. May be too tired to cut it up after carrying it home.. Oh Did you know 6hst you can freeze watermelon.. It's delicious ... Both for smoothies and just to eat ... So don't be afraid to buy one that might be too large. Oh you can also make Sorbet .. It's easy.
long ago my best friend in highschool was Japanese .His mother had the most incredible garden Ive ever seen .She had been growing fruits and vegetables for decades of her life . She taught us that each watermelon has 2 belly buttons on it . A larger and a smaller , when picking a watermelon from a patch or a store ? Compare all of the smaller belly buttons to each other the smaller that belly button is the sweeter and better the melon will be because the water hasnt flowed out of it . Im 53 now and I have not been gardening ,but i have been choosing watermelons for decades and i have never gotten a bad one .Every one has been juicy and sweet not under ripe but not over ripe or pithy . thank you Mitsumi you were always so cool to us .
I've always wonder how to pick the best and the sweetest watermelon when I go to the market but have no clue what to look for as a sign that I'm making the right choice. Thanks to this very helpful tip👌 Now I know!
I've heard other people give these similar tips. How do you avoid picking one that's over ripe? I've picked some of those using these tips. Even though watermelons were harder to eat in the past with all the seeds, I think the fact that they are the natural part of the design helped the taste and texture, instead of all the GMO they do to them today to avoid seeds.
I find that too, generally the seedless ones I find are less tasty on average Even easier for me is that I usually use mine for watermelon juice, so I can sieve out the watermelon seeds after anyway :)
Seeded Watermelons are usually Older Varieties, and the "Seedless" are Hybrids, not GMO. I actually found out that a local farm actually grows a GMO Watermelon, and I found out Yesterday that it has seeds, because I was trying ot avoid their GMO WAtermelon. She keeps telling me you wont find info on this melon on Google, and I haven't found anything on it... I should ask her more about it though. Hybrids are 2 varieties combined together, but what happens is the Seeds are not able to to form properly, because of the genetics involved. Think about Donkey/Mules. I forget which, but one of them is Sterile because of how they are bred.
StringPlayer, I agree with you about the seeds. When I was a kid, we used to go to my grandparents' house & my grandpa would pick a watermelon from his patch. Without removing it from the vines, he would bend down, thump it, & listen to the sound first. If it didn't sound right, he moved on. Once he found one that sounded right, he looked it over. If it sounded & looked right, then he picked it. He never "wasted" a watermelon. They were always ripe, sweet & juicy with deep red flesh & lots of big, black seeds. Those wonderful summer days of "helping" my grandpa pick a ripe watermelon from his garden were such fun. Sitting on the porch with my family and eating a juicy ripe watermelon are memories I have held for decades. I also remember, too that my grandma and an aunt used to put salt on their watermelon. That made no sense to me. Why ruin a tasty sweet watermelon by adding salt?!
I eat water melon almost every day during summer season. I knew about that yellow marks on it shows that it's a red colour inside of it but doesn't guarantee the tastes of it sweet or not! Excellent video Thank you!
I have noticed that the seeded melon are the tastiest. In Iran, you can even smell the water melon and they are very sweet and bright Red. I have not seen anything like it in Europe or US.
I think it might have to do with the fact that most of Europe and North America is just too cold for growing watermelons, so any watermelons we get are probably from varieties that have been bred to be hardier at the cost of taste, at least that's how I've heard it explained to me.
Really great, valuable advice, thank you kindly. I knew about knocking on it, to test (a hollow sound is the right one!), since kid days, but the rest are totally new insights. And watermelon to my Family is the Festive Year End Season fruit of joie, hence my interest. The most well known we grew up with was (is!) the ‘Klondyke’ which we absolutely devoured in the Klein Karoo (ZA) (close to Oudtshoorn, other side De Rust Area - little rural Station Farming Community known as ‘Vlakteplaas’....) Thank you again. Will ALWAYS remember this valuable posting!! 😎💯🥂
This is great info. Generally I get a watermelon that's not ripe or sweet. I will be so thankful for a soft and sweet one and not feel like I'm munching on a carrot!
If you buy a watermelon using these tips, let me know your experience! I also have a video on how to tell if a pineapple is ripe: ua-cam.com/video/-0Y2hmvaTAI/v-deo.html and How to grow a pineapple from the top of another pineapple: ua-cam.com/video/hp86SrwXYPU/v-deo.html
Daisy Creek Farms with Jag Singh
Thanks for watermelon tips. I usually grow my own. But Midwest weather last year really played hell on everyone's gardens. This year is looking better so going back over alot of your growing tips on everything started from only seeds. Except tomatoes. Wish me luck. Had to redo soil conditions this year due to the fact I live in a red clay soil area that drives you crazy growing things. Your tips helped solve that issue for me as well. Again thanks.
Daisy Creek Farms with Jag Singh excellent advice thanks.
Thanks for this video 👍I never knew this...I always did the thump test on the watermelon🍉 but wasn't sure what I was listening for 😂😂😂 I even thought it may have been an old wise tale 😂😂😂 guess you could say I was thumping for good luck and because mostly it was a wise tale tradition to thump🍉 🤣🤣🤣 so glad I can inspect and thump a watermelon now and actually look like a professional now 🍉🍉😂🍉🍉
Also press on the blossom end. It will show signs of age more than the sides. An overripe melon will have an area around the blossom end with pronounced softness.
Larry Tischler thanks for that. So is that a good or a bad thing? I bought one yesterday checking all the signs as to the video. Wasn’t very sweet. I live in uk.
I appreciate that he doesn’t waste our time like other videos. Thanks fo getting right to the point.
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Agreed. Too much talky talky is annoying.
Somebody who tells you the things you need to know without loads of unnecessary chat. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thanks man. Explained just in 2 minutes. Some people out there can expand that into a 50min video, where they start the story at the beginning of the universe.
Lol😂Exactly
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It all started with my humble beginning...
Very true
I've helped pick watermelons for over 20 years on my friends garden for farmers market. I agree with most of what you say except for the stem. First thing we look for is if the curl on the stem has turned brown. If the stem itself is brown it indicates a dead vine. We never pick a melon from a dead vine (over ripe). If the thump sounds like a thud it is over ripe. The thump method becomes trickier on different varieties especially the smaller varieties. The fun part of helping pick the melons is that we cut and test some of them in the field to get a feel for what the thump should sound like for its variety. We always leave part of the stem on the melon so I can't verify what the spot looks like on the melon if stem is completely removed.
There you are ,,,, always one writing a novel about so long could make a video about it , armchair backseat driver,,, you read every bit of that off google
Hmmmmmm
I love watermelon. I have one question…sometimes the melon is plenty red, and even plenty moist, but it is soft and “mushy,” such a disappointment! I like it sweet, moist, and firm! How do I avoid purchasing mushy watermelon? Is it too ripe, or not ripe enough, and how do I know? Thank you! You sound like a real expert!
@@cydkriletich6538 you have the same taste as me.
On the video, when he say if pressing on watermelon make the rind has dent, it is ripe.
I think we can know the watermelon is too ripe or not defending on how much force we use to press.
i was always told to push the stem area, if its soft then its over ripe.
This is a gem of a UA-cam video. I wish more of them were this useful, informative, brief, and timely as the season will soon be here for water melons.
We thought everybody knew these simple facts. Let us cook.
@@chefgiovanni shut up
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ this is why nobody likes your religion, nobody wants some old grandma digitally being a misionary
I was picking a good melon at the store last year using these methods and a customer came over & asked what I was doing. I gave him the quick tutorial and he thanked me. Here’s to good sweet watermelons! 🍉
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Watermelons & mangos.Great summer fruits on a warm day at the beach.Brings back memories.Just like oranges at halftime at the football.
Ahhh how water melons unite us
I just showed my mom this video. I told her years ago that the best way to sweet and crunchy watermelons were to first look for the ones where the watermelon had a large yellow spot followed by thumping it for a hollow sound. She never caught on till I finally looked it up, today, and showed her this video. I learned this method from a farmer's market seller. I picked one and he told me I picked the wrong watermelon. He then looked through them and picked two of them for me explaining what to look for. Man, those two watermelons were like drinking sugar water.
Ripeness can also be tested by sniffing the flower end of the fruit - when it's ripe, a slight press on the flower site, will get the aroma of it
Thank you for posting this. I was at the store and picked up a watermelon that I thought felt a bit soft. I found this video and decided to buy it. It turned out to be the sweetest and best tasting watermelon I've ever had.
Nice
This is what UA-cam was meant for. No gimmicks...no begging for likes..no telling us about how tired you are and how hot it is outside...just straight to the point knowledge
Plus no 6 minute long sponsorship for some BS company like A1 greens that’s a $100 a month multivitamin with barely any B12
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You can still use it for that, unfortunately there is so much videos, that it is hard to find something to the point like this. That is why I personally 2x and sometimes 3x a video.
And yet it is not primarily used as you wish. What now?
@@Finn959 nothing, but you go through it faster, lose less time
Thank you for the nice simple post that actually informs us quickly and to the point.
Just tap it and listen for a hollow sound. I find that's the best way
vilod Thanks for this video. I have always been afraid to buy a watermelon because I had no idea about what to look for to make sure it was ripe. Now I know!
Yes exactly I hate long winded ass videos this was perfect
vilod agreed! keyword ‘to the point!’ Hate posts that don’t answer shit promptly 🙄
This post may be simple short but it's packed with all the most important information. It's so precise, It's like head shot every second.
mak its u again
Oml how tf are you on every video I watch?😭
Agreed
Get lost weirdo
Why am I seeing you back again ? 😂 Yt algorithm
Oooh!!! I literally gasped from 1:41-1:43! That's the prettiest watermelon I think I've ever seen!!
CeeCee Nunya prettiest I’ve have ever seen has been in Colombia 🇨🇴
I don’t like 🍉 but there
Omg I thought it was a different fruit !
But if I find one like he suggest I will give it another try at home .
Than you have seen nothing.
@@moviecat7697 How or where do you pick a good melon ?
Yeah I gasped too at it's beauty when he cut it.
@@fishfire_2999 In Asia you have good melon.
Thank you! I love this type of video. Please do more short videos telling us how to look for the most ripe and flavorful produce in the market. I'd also like to see more short videos telling gardeners how and when to look for signs of how and when to harvest various types of crops. These are so helpful to novice gardeners like me!
-Brown Stem (not green)
-Hollow sound when tapped
-Big yellow patch (not white)
-A little squishy (not rock solid)
Which have to buy
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is that necessary? the video is only 2min long..if they cant watch it then let them enjoy nasty melon!
Oodle A Noodles It’s just an overview to help you remember the main points on the video :)
I'm confused. He said if it has a green stem but pointed to a brown one. And then said if it has a brown stem but pointed to a green one. I'm confused. Did he get it backward or am I misinterpreting it
I knew the hollow sound but did not know the brown edge. thank you.
Same i knew the hollow sound i learned it from watching a movie
When its with the brown edge that means its not good hm is it like that plz !??
@@ateeqmalik3364 brown edge means it is good.
You are weak
Followed your tips, picked the watermelon that was so sweet and delicious! GAME CHANGER!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for giving all the good information in a nice short format, very well done. Most of these videos are 4+ times as long filled with time wasting information for many of us. Thanks again and well done.
UA-cam recommendations are getting out of hand..
I like it.
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Found this on recommend too
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How can there be 711 dislikes? This is a perfect video. Good guy, good topic, quick and informative...and a good personality that shines through
If you die today there are some people in this world who will dislike it.🙄🙄🙄
Don't know what happen to people these days. I saw a 'rescue sea turtles from barnacle project' video and it had thousand of dislikes. I mean, wtf, they are trying to save sea turtles why the dislike? People can be so thoughtless smh
People are just angry and because of internet dissociative disorder, there's no connection with their actions on social media.
@@johnlabu1154 I saw one where after they saved the turtle they threw the plastic back in...and almost everyone was complaining about that... Its always something...!
@@gavindy_Sv2 detachment...no r the percussion
Very simple, but full of good information. I didn't know to pick a watermelon until now.
Are you mean is full information but there is no systematic way or step by step to select?
Thank you for this information… I grew up on a farm and the watermelon patch was sacred. We didn’t go into it without our father or grandfather!! I learned most of that which you shared from them but I’m much older now and I had forgotten a few of those tips, so I thank you ever so much for this brief but to the point and very informative video❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️ Great job😊♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
The reason for not going in the watermelon patch is because that's where babies come from. You don't want to upset the babies before they're ripe!
The reason for not going in the watermelon patch is because that's where babies come from. You don't want to upset the babies before they're ripe!
This is excellent video: in just two minutes it explains the topic in full details. Great job, Mr. Singh!
The squishy part got me actually. I usually look for hard ones thought they are more fresh
@Jag Singh, You described it just right. Your tips can help a buyer to never be disappointed when they want to bring a delicious watermelon home. My husband who grew up on a farm where his family grew many fruits and vegetables taught me when we were first married how to pick a good melon with those same suggestions. It works ! Thanks for sharing great advice.
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As a watermelon lover I appreciate the brief but informative video. It’s just what I needed. I have only used the thumping method and do ok with it most of the time. Having a couple more things to consider will improve my ability to select better watermelons! Thanks!
His demonstration is partial. What he had to do is buying the both watermelons and show that the yellow patched one is better than the green stemmed one without a yellow patch. It is hard to do a good demonstration and saving money at the same time.
@@harshakumara970 true
my way of trying to remember this forever is by the 3 S... Stem, Sun spot, Sound when tapped. ty for this info it's very helpful, no more stale tasting water melons!
More like " Stem, Sun spot, Sound, Soft skin "
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nah, just tap it 3 times, it's easier to remember.
1. - Good info delivered fast. Excellent.
2. - Got to the point fast. Excellent.
3. - Overall impression - Excellent.
Please keep up the good work mate.
Thank you :)
Very informative!!! My husband and I have a hard time picking the right one. You went in to detail just perfect not long and boring. Thank you
Great information!! I always wash the watermelon, with water, before cutting into it.
Useful video, not drawn out nor overly complicated or full of ads.
10/10, wish more videos were as clear and straight to the point as yours.
Watermelon is the greatest food on the planet, I could eat it year round
No lie there
Same im thinking about growing some
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I want to know what they need to grow well.
@@ldplays9431 compost, good soil that drains well, and lots and lots of water
@@get_understanding
Is central Europe warm enough to grow them?
Having picked these things for many years I can tell you that yellow spot on top is what was called a sunburn- happens when thier in the field a long time with no rain or cloud cover an get burnt- the "plug" means nothing- if it's long an straggly it was pulled off the vine an not cut- we cut ours- the yellow"belly" it's called is where it sat on the ground will be ripe an you did get one right the sound- it's a very distinct sound when thier ripe an after years of picking these things your learn there's a certain dull look to a ripe one- when walking the fields you can spot a ripe one from 15 feet just from its look
thanks for sharing the tips! I have always looked for the yellow sun spot when i picked watermelon, but never knew about the other 2 tips... Love a ripe and sweet watermelon! especially the one that cracks before you even cut your knife all the way down...
I've talked to tons of produce clerks, and watched countless videos on this subject. The best advice are: #1 pick one that feels heavy for it's size... this by far has been the best and consistent method I've found. This goes along the lines of having more sugar/water content than one of similar size, but weigh less. #2, look for water melons with "scars" on them which is exuding sugar (dried thick black sugar/sap). I've not heard about the yellow spot, other than that's the part that sits on the ground (smaller the better, but being yellow - ripe makes sense, with white = unripe).
For most fruits, heavy for the size applies. Especially for citrus and other water heavy fruits. If it's something that you bite into and is juice, the heavy for the size thing is likely to work.
Totally agreed. I would pick the small yellow spot ones too, so sunshine reached more areas on them. The big yellow spots don't taste as good as they always sit on the ground behind the sun.
They just want you to pay more
seedless is not GMO (genetic modified). seedless is genetic engineered.
Thanks so much for this video. My Mom was the expert melon picker. I found out her Dad (my grandfather) grew watermelons, cantaloups and pumpkins in Europe. She could always pick a perfect melon but took her secret to the grave. I am grateful for this information. ❤ from 🇨🇦
Wish I'd came across this a day or two ago but this just proves big brother is always watching or listening.
Yes, we cater for your needs! When you want something, just whisper it and you will find it here or in your facebook. Hahahahah.
Man!! Probably 1 of the most efficient videos on UA-cam 🤠👍 no BS, absolutely straight to the point 👏
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I have not had a good watermelon in a long time. I am going to try this for sure. Thank you
Where do you live , Alaska?
Watermelon is my favorite fruit. I can't resist a cold piece of sweet juicy watermelon. A true gift from God to mankind.
Why to mankind only? A lot of animals like it too.
I mean, technically we selectively bred it into the fruit you know today. It used to be mostly rind.
"To taste a watermelon is to know “what the angels eat,” Mark Twain proclaimed.
The angels, however, would have gagged if they had eaten the watermelon’s wild ancestor-a bitter fruit with hard, pale-green flesh. Generations of selective breeding, spanning several countries and cultures, produced the sweet red fruit that’s now a common sight on picnic tables."
@@KeithTreason Aw shit here we go again.
@@yeelahowah7476 Regardless, he isnt wrong about the original "God-made" watermelon. Man perfected it. The end.
Funny. I always thought they came from the ground.
Another tip I learned 55 years ago, with eggplants, tomatoes and squashes....look for the stem mark, a round one is a female full of seeds, an elongated one is male and has fewer seeds. It’s been accurate and makes a huge difference in the recipes.
So the males don’t have the seeds?
@@maryc530 - As I said, the males have fewer seeds. It’s accurate. If you are making a tomato sauce, you want tomatoes with more pulp and fewer seeds. Same for eggplant recipes. More pulp, less seeds makes a much nicer result. Cucumbers, zucchini, peppers too.
Here’s another tip I’ve taught my daughters when picking a spiral ham…..squeeze it. If it soft….it’s very fatty, if it’s firm…it’s lean. Works every time.
@@ScotchIrishTarheel - lol
@@ScotchIrishTarheel When I grab the butt of a pig, he squeals. Is that a good sign?
@M Chapman, I can't speak to the reason(s) behind your success in choosing those veggies based on your observations, but if it works for you, that's great! However, I'd like to try and explain some of the science and how there are no male eggplants, tomatoes or squashes, if anyone is interested.
Those veggies are fruits, meaning they are the ripened ovary of the plant. Ovaries are female sex organs whether in plants or animals. The eggplant, tomato or squash we eat is the ovary that contains the seeds (in animals, these are eggs and we don't eat the ovary, just the egg). The male part of those plants is the male flowers which contain stamens that produce pollen (in animals this would be sperm). The pollen fertilizes the seeds. So, what we eat is the female part of the plant that holds the seeds (again, think of an ovary holding eggs).
Some fruit will ripen without needing pollination, so they are what we call seedless, though the undeveloped seed is still there (think about the white seeds in seedless watermelon, where seedless more accurately means it has unfertilized, immature seeds). However, the amount of seeds in the fruit is dependent on the genetics of that variety. How developed the seeds are when the fruit is consumed will affect how prominent the seeds are to us and determine how or when we consume it. For example, we usually prefer to eat cucumbers with as undeveloped seed as possible. We control for that by picking before they get mature (most turn yellow, get bitter, and develop hardened seeds when fully ripe, nothing you want to eat). But, we can also grow varieties that can grow cukes without fertilization, a genetic trait called parthenocarpy. So when we harvest, as well as how many seeds a plant is genetically coded to have, are the factors affecting how seedy we perceive them to be.
In general, when the seed has been fertilized, it developes as the fruit ripens. We may eat different fruit at different stages of ripeness, but the seed, whether fertilized or not, is there. That fruit is the female sex organ of those plants and they do not make male fruit, no more than a rooster can lay eggs.
See, now you've got me craving watermelon. My absolute favourite fruit. Gotta head out to the store to get some now.
Spot on! I worked my way through my undergrad working in a grocery store in the 90s - produce for most of the 7 years I was there. I learned everything you said there from various coworkers and customers along the way, along with a lot of testing in the back warehouse. One thing that was also a sure sign was if you strike the melon gently with a fairly sharp knife and it splits open, it’s a winner! I think that melons filled with water do this.
They apparently didn't tell you the splitting watermelons with a knife at the store until you find the "right" one means buying a lot of watermelons.
@@usa91787 Wielding a sharp knife in a grocery store can also get you shot.
@@usa91787 Yep, that's the thing, any idiot can tell if fruit is ripe by cutting it, the trick is how to know without damaging the merchandise.
I will be splitting watermelons and buy the one that s
I get the idea that none of you shop in grocery stores. I worked there. I had to cut and wrap watermelon slices, halves, and quarters. When I cut them for that, I would know how they cut. I do however welcome all of you to go to a store and start cutting open melons. They’re not prosecuting crime in most major cities so you may all do as you wish.
Yeah! Its really helpful to find a tasty sweet watermelon.thank you so much for the informative tips.👍
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Thank you so much! I will use this method this weekend! My grandmother use to pick the perfect melon every time.
Straight to the point and easy to understand. No annoying long intro and no useless trivia that we didn't ask for. 😂
Thank you cause I love watermelon ate it all my life but didn’t know a thing about picking one out and thank u for keeping it short and brief to the point and actually showing us an example good job 👏🏾
at last someone's advice , short, informative and to the point ! I did not even have to speed up the vid x 1.75 , Many thanks
When he opened it up, hmm 😋 looks delicious!
Another tip....Dont cut your watermelon up before you are ready to eat it. You can cut off what you want to eat, stand the rest up in a large bowl, place a sheet of plastic wrap over it and put it back in the fridge. This will keep all the water from running out and it becoming slimy. It will also last longer this way.
Yes the watermelon cut up sold in grocery stores in plastic containers is gross an slimy.
Thank you!
Thank you 👍🏽🍉☀️
Yup it even last days outside at room temperature sitting up like that. I wouldn't recommend but it does lol
If it last until slimy, it's not good at all
Been thumping my watermelons for years. People tried telling me that is not how you pick one. Just got told it was right here! Thank you for the tips!!!😁
Good video, learned this from my Dad 60 years ago. Back then the farmer would even cut a “Plug” out of a melon and let you taste it.
I stopped by a street vendor in Goa, India (2016) and like you said the guy did a pyramid cut on the side of the melon put the skin-side on the tip of the knife and extended it to me. I thought he was giving it to me to taste it. But apparently not! He quickly put the plug back into the watermelon. Over there, they do it so they can show how red / ripe the fruit is inside!! Well that was awkward!!
Sweet corn too in the summer. You could bite the kernals uncooked
In India farmers still cut a plug to taste whether it is sweet
Thank you!! Nothing worse than walking home w a couple of watermelons in 100 degree heat praying they are red & sweet only to be dissapointed 😢 Now I know ☺
Hehehe
I know how it feels, with all that effort.
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And thinking your getting a red watermelon only to get a yellow one and it was not sweet ! I was creeped out by the color for some reason.
My sympathies with you.🙏🙏
You right😁
Whole my life I tried to know the indications of a ripen watermelon and today found this video.Thanks for sharing.Sharing is caring.
Quick, simple, to the point and easy to following. Thanks for the tips
Grew my own watermelons for the first time this year. I picked one a couple weeks ago and it was not done yet! Thank you for this video because I watched it prior to going out and grabbing another one and this one was ready!
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The vine will dry up where it is connected when it is ripe. Anything growing close to that connection should dry up. If you are the one doing the picking, this can help.
ua-cam.com/video/2kjOnnhcLfs/v-deo.html This video explains
Thank you for showing a cut watermelon at the end. I don’t like when watermelon flesh gets “fluffy”, or mushy, so I tend to get them a little under-ripe.
if thats the case just make a juice out of them
Yea, i like it crunchy too.
It’s good too know all the handy tips when picking supposedly fresh fruits in your supermarket watermelon is surprisingly hard to figure out and good knowledge on these is a good tip in itself
I now want a watermelon to quench my thirst, I was quite happily sipping my cup of tea till I saw this segment.
I never knew how to choose a good watermelon. Now I do. Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this I picked the PERFECT watermelon today thanks to these steps. I was so surprised.
I am glad these tips were helpful. Thank you for your support :)
Great video! Right to the point. One thing I would like to add, an old farmer once told me to look for signs of sap coming out of the cut stem. That will let you know that the watermelon is sweet.
Thank you for your clear simple instruction. I hope I remember them the next. Time I buy a watermelon.. LOL.
PROBLEM.. I don't always want to purchase something too ripe. Because I may not eat it the same day I putvhad4 it. Especially a watermelon.. May be too tired to cut it up after carrying it home..
Oh Did you know 6hst you can freeze watermelon.. It's delicious ... Both for smoothies and just to eat ... So don't be afraid to buy one that might be too large.
Oh you can also make Sorbet .. It's easy.
I have been using his tips and he is right !! Thank you !! 🙂
Thanks alot man !! Now I want a watermelon !!
Lol, so do I!!
Me too
I *Always-Do!! 😀🍉👍💕
I *Always_Do!! 😀👍💕🍉
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long ago my best friend in highschool was Japanese .His mother had the most incredible garden Ive ever seen .She had been growing fruits and vegetables for decades of her life . She taught us that each watermelon has 2 belly buttons on it . A larger and a smaller , when picking a watermelon from a patch or a store ? Compare all of the smaller belly buttons to each other the smaller that belly button is the sweeter and better the melon will be because the water hasnt flowed out of it . Im 53 now and I have not been gardening ,but i have been choosing watermelons for decades and i have never gotten a bad one .Every one has been juicy and sweet not under ripe but not over ripe or pithy . thank you Mitsumi you were always so cool to us .
Nice my mom always told me that if it sounds hollow it's good.
Thank you. I live in the south and watermelon season is headed our way.
Yes, about another month :)
Yes and I can't wait either
I've always wonder how to pick the best and the sweetest watermelon when I go to the market but have no clue what to look for as a sign that I'm making the right choice. Thanks to this very helpful tip👌 Now I know!
The stem is supposed to be green, not brown, brown means it is overripe, green means fresh
I had no clue about a good watermelon.
Thank for a great clue.
Whew!!! Thank God!!! I can now pick out a good watermelon! Nothing is more discouraging on a hot day to crack open a bad melon😄😄😄😄😄
Thank you for sharing this info. I'm tired of wasting $5 - $6 on unripe melons!
Thanks so much! I have always wondered about some clues and you gave me a bunch. Much appreciated.
wow, he just changed my life!!!
Thanks Jag, I've always wanted to know this. I knew about tapping it for the sound and that was all I knew before this.
Great content. Straight to the point, no fluff. I learned something today.
Very well explained and really helpful, thank you 🍉
This is by far the best video that I've ever seen for checking a watermelons ripeness. Incredible!
Thanks for sharing these useful tips.
Ok..I'm gonna take your word for it..I generally pick bad ones so I'll let u know
Lilly VonShtup I was a pro in picking bad ones too!
LOL Hey Lily - Mel Brooks will want royalties for using a copyrighted name from one of his films! LOL!!
You just answered the most difficult question of my life...
Thanks 😀😀😀
You must have a really good life then
Me too
Thank you for the tips.i really needed that. Do not worry about haters
Just look at the yellow belly and knock it as was shown. Never goes wrong.My uncle taught me decades ago !
Straight to the point and the results prove the points. I wouldn't cut it on newspaper though. They're very dirty and ink runs off easily.
I've heard other people give these similar tips. How do you avoid picking one that's over ripe? I've picked some of those using these tips. Even though watermelons were harder to eat in the past with all the seeds, I think the fact that they are the natural part of the design helped the taste and texture, instead of all the GMO they do to them today to avoid seeds.
I find that too, generally the seedless ones I find are less tasty on average
Even easier for me is that I usually use mine for watermelon juice, so I can sieve out the watermelon seeds after anyway :)
Seeded Watermelons are usually Older Varieties, and the "Seedless" are Hybrids, not GMO. I actually found out that a local farm actually grows a GMO Watermelon, and I found out Yesterday that it has seeds, because I was trying ot avoid their GMO WAtermelon. She keeps telling me you wont find info on this melon on Google, and I haven't found anything on it... I should ask her more about it though.
Hybrids are 2 varieties combined together, but what happens is the Seeds are not able to to form properly, because of the genetics involved. Think about Donkey/Mules. I forget which, but one of them is Sterile because of how they are bred.
StringPlayer, I agree with you about the seeds. When I was a kid, we used to go to my grandparents' house & my grandpa would pick a watermelon from his patch. Without removing it from the vines, he would bend down, thump it, & listen to the sound first. If it didn't sound right, he moved on. Once he found one that sounded right, he looked it over. If it sounded & looked right, then he picked it.
He never "wasted" a watermelon. They were always ripe, sweet & juicy with deep red flesh & lots of big, black seeds.
Those wonderful summer days of "helping" my grandpa pick a ripe watermelon from his garden were such fun. Sitting on the porch with my family and eating a juicy ripe watermelon are memories I have held for decades.
I also remember, too that my grandma and an aunt used to put salt on their watermelon. That made no sense to me. Why ruin a tasty sweet watermelon by adding salt?!
@@judybritt6288 And if I may ask, where was this place? Sounds like amazing memories!
@@judybritt6288 Salt makes it even sweeter especially for a not so sweet 🍉
I did everything except for look at the stem. Thanks for that. Great, straight to the point video!
Great video! Right to the point and accurate. I have used his methods and they work!
My mom used to teach me stuff like this. Good info. 😻
I never picked a good watermelon so far..if I ask shop keeper help he always cheats me..but not anymore. Very useful video.
Thanks for the tips! And..
You got right to the topic of your video which seems rare up here... Thanks for that too!👍👍👍🍻
My grandfather taught me the tapping/hollow test.
I'm allergic to seedless. Obviously something added to have seedless.
Or removed...
I eat water melon almost every day during summer season.
I knew about that yellow marks on it shows that it's a red colour inside of it but doesn't guarantee the tastes of it sweet or not!
Excellent video
Thank you!
thanks,i love watermelon!
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Wonderful video fantastic information well done keep it up
Thank you! I thump a watermelon to avoid too green ( high pitch) or too ripe and soggy, low dull pitch. Now I have the yellow and the stem. Awesome!
I have noticed that the seeded melon are the tastiest. In Iran, you can even smell the water melon and they are very sweet and bright Red. I have not seen anything like it in Europe or US.
I can smell us watermelons
I think it might have to do with the fact that most of Europe and North America is just too cold for growing watermelons, so any watermelons we get are probably from varieties that have been bred to be hardier at the cost of taste, at least that's how I've heard it explained to me.
Really great, valuable advice, thank you kindly.
I knew about knocking on it, to test (a hollow sound is the right one!), since kid days, but the rest are totally new insights.
And watermelon to my Family is the Festive Year End Season fruit of joie, hence my interest.
The most well known we grew up with was (is!) the ‘Klondyke’ which we absolutely devoured in the Klein Karoo (ZA) (close to Oudtshoorn, other side De Rust Area - little rural Station Farming Community known as ‘Vlakteplaas’....)
Thank you again.
Will ALWAYS remember this valuable posting!!
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Also look for scarring. That says that bees know its sweet as well!
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100%. I totally forgot to look at the stem and scarring and I got a terrible watermelon this past weekend. hopefully never again lol
This is great info. Generally I get a watermelon that's not ripe or sweet. I will be so thankful for a soft and sweet one and not feel like I'm munching on a carrot!
Thank you. I have always had a hard time picking out a good watermelon..will try your techniques
Thank you so much. As Summer approaches, this information is just what I needed!
🍉 I don't like Watermelon, but I will get it for other people. So thanks for the juicy tips, bcuz I have no idea how to pick one.
How the fuuuuuuuuuuukk??