Same goes for cantaloupe, if it sounds hollow, grab it. Also, to pick out a good ass pineapple: find a leaf closest to the middle and then try to pluck it out with as little force as possible. The easier it is, the riper
Great Method! When I worked in the produce department I learned that yellow spots are from the sun and all the brown wrinkles are (Sugar Lines) soo Supposedly the more hallow, yellow spots, and sugar lines you see the sweeter it is
Yes!!! My mother taught me that the yellow part is how long it’s been on the ground sitting, the bigger the yellow part the sweeter and red deliciousness!!
Ive grown watermelon and it has nothing to do with how long its been sitting on the ground. How much yellow depends on how much surface area is touching the ground.
@@speaktruth9631 Make sure the skin is firm and vibrant. That is all there is to it. Even still you can get a rotten melon. There is no 100% effective way. Ive gotten rotten melon using many different method.
Lmao!! 🤣 I actually bought one just yesterday and I was trying to figure out what you're supposed to look for to get a good one I just ended up getting a random one. Fingers crossed that it's sweet
Tapping it for a hollow thump can be misleading. It can also be indicative of a dried out melon. The larger the "yellow spot" means that it stayed on the vine longer & had more opportunity to "soak up" natural sugars during it's growth. I've had my watermelon but have been too lazy to cut it up. Thanks for the inspiration. It's sandilla time.🤤💦
I actually wanted to HEAR what the melon is supposed to sound like, when you tap it, so I could try to do it and compare it. I can’t just IMAGINE the right sound 😭
All you need to do is actually listen for it to sound hollow or like if it's full like it's about to explode. Then when you cut into it. It takes little to no effort. Then you my friends will have a great melon every time
with watermelon you usually want to look for a bigger yellow spot (for sweetness) and yes you can check for hollowness but sometimes hollowness doesn’t matter
My MIL was a melon farmer growing up. The first day I met her we went to the grocery store where she taught me these methods. She always picks the best fruits!
It's not the size of the yellow mark but the darker the yellow spot, the sweeter the watermelon. I've been using that technique for yrs and it hasn't failed me yet
Good cantaloupes usually smell like cantaloupe on the outside and sometimes they are more yellowish , or yellowish orange. You can push the tail ,end but you can still get a overripe one. The smell count, by smell you can tell if it's bad also. If it have no smell it's not ripe( not sweet).
There were also a few scars on there, another good sign that when it was still a flower it was pollinated more than once. The more it's pollinated the better the fruit!
I buy my watermelon from the farmers market and these are true non chemically made, so they have the black seeds that a watermelon normally should have inside.
Fluffybat It’s just a variety of watermelon. There is nothing wrong with seedless watermelons. BTW - The ones with seeds look completely different than original watermelons.
Lol I grow my own watermelon and this is how I know when they’re ready🤣🤣😂😂 I tap it 😂🤣😂 Fresh off the vine is killing that store bought . You gotta grow one ♥️
We tried to once and they over grew everything because it was our first time making a garden so everything was too close haha never did get a good melon thanks to those rabbits and squirrels!
We tried..Bunnies...squirells..skunks racoons loved them. We tried pumpkin for fall...the deer ate like candy what the rest of the zoo left. We love living near the woods..BUT!....
Look you are the coolest mom out there right now and I'm a fixing to be a grandmother so I'm gonna be taking a lot of tips from your show and trying to get my daughter to remember all this stuff for when the baby gets older thank you so much for sharing all those this is good content and it's not gross you have a family and you're taking care of them and that's your content I love your content thank you
Another thing a lot of people don’t know: If you buy a watermelon from a store and it’s not good(not ripe, over ripe, whatever), you can immediately return it with your receipt and the store will give you another one. Different stores have different policies of course but I’ve personally never had a store refuse to replace a bad watermelon.
I always find the yellow spot (not white bc that means it won’t be as sweet), look for the darkest green stripes, & make sure the spot where it got picked from the vine looks good. If all those are good I’ll thump it for the hollow sound.
I got told by an old neighbor o mine that you look for the lines if they are dark green it's a nice and sweet watermelon and boi was she right my mom did it and it was the sweetest watermelon I ever had 🤗🤗
My mouth was watering as soon as I saw that watermelon! I knew as soon as you tapped & I saw the bright beautiful yellow, you had a *PERFECT* watermelon 🍉
Yes Gurl ! Tap Tap Tap! & the butt is another way if it gives a little it’s sweet n juicy. Both my parents are from Texas and that’s how we learned . Cali girls !
first of all stick to 3-4 places that you've had success!! u want it to be hard and tight means it's fresh and contents(if any sweetness,taste)under pressure. if it has dark green stripes like this one, the darker the stripes the better!
@@foodwins oh I heard fruit is expensive there. But it's beautiful and sweet and no imperfections. They bring fruit as gifts because of that, kind of like how we'd bring chocolates or flowers I think. Is that true?
@@littleboots9800 yeah the fruits here are like always beautiful, it's awesome!! And yeah some people will bring fruits as a gift for like special events. It's really cool, but expensive 😆
NOT JUST YOUR MOM EVERYONE MOM. THE YELLOW MARK MEANS IT STAYED ON THE GROWN AND THE SUN KISSED IT LONGER I WOULD GO FOR THE YELLOW SPOT MORE SO THAN HOLLOW. FL NATIVE WE GOT SKILLS.
STOP IT! It's already hard e enough to find a melon like yours!! I've shared these tips so often, now I have to shop 4-5 times to find melons like that! Actually, I've never even SEEN one as beautiful as yours!!! Congratulations!
The yellow part is the part of the melon that touched the ground.. We place a small tile underneath the melon while it is young and then you get a perfect green color around the melon.. The hollow sound means the water is busy drying up inside and definitely ripe.. The little " string" where it was attached to the main plant, should be brown.. 💯🍷
It's crazy I seen this video today because I seen an elderly lady doing this when I went to the store earlier and it was a process and I was wondering what was going on and this answered it! I'm 38 and never knew this I just always looked for the prettiest!
Use whatever method you want, I'm here to say that as someone who has cut fruit in a production environment, watermelons are like lottery tickets. I haven't been able to establish anything at all by the look or feel of a watermelon to determine ripeness and sweetness. I have cut literally thousands of them. Cantaloupe and other melons you can tell pretty easily, the methods you spoke about do work. Best answer I have for watermelons is they get better starting in June, and they're amazing in August. They love heat and water, down here in Georgia we get some killer produce.
Sugar lines are what you want, not yellowing spots. There are also male and female watermelons, and the female watermelons are sweeter than the males. Males are oval and females are round ☺️
The yellow on it only means it sat on the ground and that side got no sun, and has nothing to do with the sweetness. But the hollow sound from Tapping it has always worked well.
I take this into account but also by how heavy it is too. If it sounds hollow but it’s really heavy especially for its size that means it’s juicier. Works every time.
“According to my mother and my ancestors”
That’s all I needed to hear, I’m taking out my notepad for the rest 👀
Facts🙌🏾🎯
Right lol
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We say the same thing in my family! Except instead of recipes and food hacks, we pass down generational trauma! 😍
I loved it
Same goes for cantaloupe, if it sounds hollow, grab it.
Also, to pick out a good ass pineapple: find a leaf closest to the middle and then try to pluck it out with as little force as possible. The easier it is, the riper
Good to know thanks!
Cantaloupe is easy. Just sniff it. They're very fragrant when ripe.
For pineapple you would smell that strong pineapple scent and the coulour is yellow which mean it is already ripe
@@kudzu_ I always do that and I get a lot of weird looks from others lol
Or you could smell the pineapple, and if it smells like pineapple, it’s ripe
Great Method! When I worked in the produce department I learned that yellow spots are from the sun and all the brown wrinkles are (Sugar Lines) soo Supposedly the more hallow, yellow spots, and sugar lines you see the sweeter it is
Actually, the "yellow spot" is the side that was facing/lying on the ground, not upwards towards the sun.
*HOLLOW
Thank you!!
@@suburbantrapqueen thank you clearly you could see I wasn’t paying much attention while writing the post.
@@1970Mom thank you I will make note of it!
Yes!!! My mother taught me that the yellow part is how long it’s been on the ground sitting, the bigger the yellow part the sweeter and red deliciousness!!
I'm trying this!! Ty!!
Ive grown watermelon and it has nothing to do with how long its been sitting on the ground. How much yellow depends on how much surface area is touching the ground.
@@machinayrequiem8596 So, what your tips??
@@speaktruth9631 Make sure the skin is firm and vibrant. That is all there is to it. Even still you can get a rotten melon. There is no 100% effective way. Ive gotten rotten melon using many different method.
Any tips for the "mini watermelons".....just bought one- good price....size of a honeydew
my dad spanks all the melons every time we go to the grocery store and it’s so embarrassing😭but we get the sweetest ones every time!
Lol
Lmao 🤣 I could only imagine
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s a good dad
Lmao!! 🤣
I actually bought one just yesterday and I was trying to figure out what you're supposed to look for to get a good one I just ended up getting a random one. Fingers crossed that it's sweet
Lol......
My dad just taught me about the yellow spot ...I always thought that meant it was bad
Same😭
The more imperfections means the better it is, because they just wanna sell it by making it look pretty
Tapping it for a hollow thump can be misleading. It can also be indicative of a dried out melon. The larger the "yellow spot" means that it stayed on the vine longer & had more opportunity to "soak up" natural sugars during it's growth. I've had my watermelon but have been too lazy to cut it up. Thanks for the inspiration. It's sandilla time.🤤💦
🤣🤣❤️
I finally cut mine too 🤣
Thank you for sharing cuz I tap them and be look like what now 😂😂😂😂
Hate cutting them but love eating them!
Oh...go cut that watermelon!!! Im in melon envy right now! Yum!..Go do it!😀🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉
I actually wanted to HEAR what the melon is supposed to sound like, when you tap it, so I could try to do it and compare it. I can’t just IMAGINE the right sound 😭
All you need to do is actually listen for it to sound hollow or like if it's full like it's about to explode. Then when you cut into it. It takes little to no effort. Then you my friends will have a great melon every time
It kinda sounds like an echo. The sound is hard to describe it's like it has elasticity or somethin
@@allthingscreative1631 yep like bouncy sort of lol
I heard if you hear “pink” it’s not ripe but if you hear “punk” it is ripe 😃
with watermelon you usually want to look for a bigger yellow spot (for sweetness) and yes you can check for hollowness but sometimes hollowness doesn’t matter
Also look for what are called "sugar cracks" those lines that go across the watermelon skin🖤 I had a produce employee tell me this🖤
They are all grew up as much sweet as can now a days
My MIL was a melon farmer growing up. The first day I met her we went to the grocery store where she taught me these methods. She always picks the best fruits!
It's not the size of the yellow mark but the darker the yellow spot, the sweeter the watermelon. I've been using that technique for yrs and it hasn't failed me yet
I do this, too! My nana used to knock on cantaloupes and any melons she bought. Listen for that hollow sound! Perfect every time.
Good cantaloupes usually smell like cantaloupe on the outside and sometimes they are more yellowish , or yellowish orange. You can push the tail ,end but you can still get a overripe one. The smell count, by smell you can tell if it's bad also. If it have no smell it's not ripe( not sweet).
I'm going to try the tap method on the cantaloupe, but the nose won't steer you wrong if you have a good smeller.
you should also get one with like spider web looking things bc it’s natural sugar leaking meaning it’s super sweet!
Aw your sister is beautiful! She looked a little shy and it melted my heart! Gorgeous! 🔥🔥
Wait.. WHY ARE YOU SO GODDAMN PRETTY
There were also a few scars on there, another good sign that when it was still a flower it was pollinated more than once. The more it's pollinated the better the fruit!
Yup! That tap works 98% of the time for me.
What Ever Happened “2” The Black Seeds!!!! Inside Of The Watermelon??
I buy my watermelon from the farmers market and these are true non chemically made, so they have the black seeds that a watermelon normally should have inside.
@@Aleenah784 buy water melon that has seeds,it's not a GMO.
GMO we like our seeds in ours
That’s a seedless watermelon you can still by ones with seeds.
Fluffybat It’s just a variety of watermelon. There is nothing wrong with seedless watermelons.
BTW - The ones with seeds look completely different than original watermelons.
Her tips are spot on.
I love your videos! Thank you for taking to the time to share with us. God Bless!!! Keep up the great work!!
Your sharing is the best!!! Thank you!!!
I love me some watermelon BUT it had to have the SEEDS!!! No seeds I won’t eat it!
Has to be from a farmers market for most of us to find it with seeds smh
Right no seed not to eat
Absolutely, I was disappointed when she opened that mess up😩🥺
Right no seeds mean GMOS🙅🏽♀️
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I find it fascinating that nature can turn soil nutrients, water and sunshine into something so sweet and delicious.
Lol I grow my own watermelon and this is how I know when they’re ready🤣🤣😂😂 I tap it 😂🤣😂 Fresh off the vine is killing that store bought . You gotta grow one ♥️
We tried to once and they over grew everything because it was our first time making a garden so everything was too close haha never did get a good melon thanks to those rabbits and squirrels!
We tried..Bunnies...squirells..skunks racoons loved them. We tried pumpkin for fall...the deer ate like candy what the rest of the zoo left. We love living near the woods..BUT!....
@@longlongshadows392lol sounds like your living in the wild! Good luck
Look you are the coolest mom out there right now and I'm a fixing to be a grandmother so I'm gonna be taking a lot of tips from your show and trying to get my daughter to remember all this stuff for when the baby gets older thank you so much for sharing all those this is good content and it's not gross you have a family and you're taking care of them and that's your content I love your content thank you
It's 11 PM and I'm trying to go to sleep, ran across this now I'm laying here dying for some ice cold, juicy, sweet watermelon. DAMN!
Nail design is gorgeous
Another thing a lot of people don’t know: If you buy a watermelon from a store and it’s not good(not ripe, over ripe, whatever), you can immediately return it with your receipt and the store will give you another one. Different stores have different policies of course but I’ve personally never had a store refuse to replace a bad watermelon.
My Girl!! After cutting it she went right for the heart! The best piece!
Yessssss, I’m Middle Eastern and we do that same exact sound test too!!! Works every single time!
The more yellow the better. That means it sat on the vine longer, got more water and will be better balanced in sweetness and water
I love your voice and videos!!💕
I always find the yellow spot (not white bc that means it won’t be as sweet), look for the darkest green stripes, & make sure the spot where it got picked from the vine looks good. If all those are good I’ll thump it for the hollow sound.
I got told by an old neighbor o mine that you look for the lines if they are dark green it's a nice and sweet watermelon and boi was she right my mom did it and it was the sweetest watermelon I ever had 🤗🤗
My mouth was watering as soon as I saw that watermelon! I knew as soon as you tapped & I saw the bright beautiful yellow, you had a *PERFECT* watermelon 🍉
Your ancestors forgot to tell you, get watermelon with seeds, not lab made!!!
Just looking at it after you cut, I knew it was bomb af!! I'm.jealous!!
My abuela always had said whichever one has the most straightest lines is a juicy sweet one
Great tips ! I’ve heard to look for the yellow part of watermelon to . It’s where all the sugar is .
Also at the end piece from the stem (“the butthole”) lolzzcheck for little black spots it’s like natural sugars leaking out
Yes that's true! Thanks sweetie, looks like you've got the best family.🤗💓
When she cracked it open i could smell it through the phone
Dude thank you. I was having a whole conversation about picking watermelon with my kids and decided I didn't know 😂
Yes Gurl ! Tap Tap Tap! & the butt is another way if it gives a little it’s sweet n juicy. Both my parents are from Texas and that’s how we learned . Cali girls !
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Man I’m in love with watermelon 🍉 my favorite ugh lord can eat the whole thing like last time 😂😂mom was mad
first of all stick to 3-4 places that you've had success!! u want it to be hard and tight means it's fresh and contents(if any sweetness,taste)under pressure. if it has dark green stripes like this one, the darker the stripes the better!
"and all my ancestors" ayyy!! Tsitsalagi (which means: I am Cherokee) and I see you!!! A'ho, sis! 🙌
Omg love your nails!
I miss watermelon 🍉, where I'm at that watermelon would probably cost $200. It looks sooooo good!!!
Whoaaaa where are you lmao
@@AS-by4px I live in Japan, and like all the fruit here is expensive 😆 I was spoiled with the prices when I lived in America
@@foodwins oh I heard fruit is expensive there. But it's beautiful and sweet and no imperfections. They bring fruit as gifts because of that, kind of like how we'd bring chocolates or flowers I think. Is that true?
Where are you? 🤗
@@littleboots9800 yeah the fruits here are like always beautiful, it's awesome!! And yeah some people will bring fruits as a gift for like special events. It's really cool, but expensive 😆
Your such a beautiful ❤️ young lady 😇.
Peace and blessings to you and your family!!
Or you can live on an island like me and grow them 🤣
Girl I need you to read a book and record yourself doing so because I just love your voice !!
I did the tapping method at Trader Joe’s and they kicked me out 😢
😆 oh no
😂😂😂😂
What were you tapping it with a hammer? They shouldn’t have done that. It causes no harm
@@Michelle32533 my hand
Oh wow 😂😂😂
These are great tips and they are exactly the method I use myself!
NOT JUST YOUR MOM EVERYONE MOM. THE YELLOW MARK MEANS IT STAYED ON THE GROWN AND THE SUN KISSED IT LONGER I WOULD GO FOR THE YELLOW SPOT MORE SO THAN HOLLOW. FL NATIVE WE GOT SKILLS.
Her nails are also very cute ☺️💅🏼
Great advice. Thanks 💯‼️
I loveeee your nails and nailart
I agree the big yellow/orange marks are always the sweetest
STOP IT! It's already hard e enough to find a melon like yours!! I've shared these tips so often, now I have to shop 4-5 times to find melons like that! Actually, I've never even SEEN one as beautiful as yours!!! Congratulations!
Everyone in the house KNEW that the heart was Margaret's . So sweet it was whitish in appearance ... lololol
The yellow part is the part of the melon that touched the ground.. We place a small tile underneath the melon while it is young and then you get a perfect green color around the melon.. The hollow sound means the water is busy drying up inside and definitely ripe.. The little " string" where it was attached to the main plant, should be brown.. 💯🍷
The yellow is just where it was sitting on the ground. The hollow sound does it every time 🥰
Ur mom looks soooo pretty 💕💕💕😍
TY for this video. I always wanted to know how to pick a delicious Watermelon!!! 💕💕💕
It's crazy I seen this video today because I seen an elderly lady doing this when I went to the store earlier and it was a process and I was wondering what was going on and this answered it! I'm 38 and never knew this I just always looked for the prettiest!
Don't forget the pollination marks, yours has some nice ones on the green. I'm jealous, I wish I had a slice of that melon🤤
Use whatever method you want, I'm here to say that as someone who has cut fruit in a production environment, watermelons are like lottery tickets.
I haven't been able to establish anything at all by the look or feel of a watermelon to determine ripeness and sweetness.
I have cut literally thousands of them.
Cantaloupe and other melons you can tell pretty easily, the methods you spoke about do work.
Best answer I have for watermelons is they get better starting in June, and they're amazing in August. They love heat and water, down here in Georgia we get some killer produce.
I had to pause and laugh when she said butthole on the watermelon, and the way she said it...😆😆😆
Sugar lines are what you want, not yellowing spots. There are also male and female watermelons, and the female watermelons are sweeter than the males. Males are oval and females are round ☺️
Thank you for this!!! God bless all of the comment section and you!
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Omg… I love your energy!
I love your blue hair! 💙
Exactly! Also if u see little black sticky leaks. It the sugars leaking out. I always just go by the milky yellow-white spot. Never fails.
Yes lol I always get great watermelons
Small button, deep yellow patch, deep green color and hollow sounding!!
Thanks for the tips, and I love the nice long nails you have
I love watermelon thanks for the tip..enjoy
Thanks for the tips💯👍🏽👏🏽
Thanks! I have needed this before I go to the supermarket every time
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Agreed with you, about the hollow sound, use your knuckles, the big yellow circle is new to me, thank you.
True!! Also look out for the brown lines because that’s the sugar marks. The more lines it has, the sweeter it is :)
I'm definitely trying this because I'm tired of getting bland watermelon, thank you
this is rlly random but ur voice is so cute idk why it just satisfies my ears 😭😭😭😭
This is my first time like seeing your face 😭 you’re so beautiful
The trick we all neeeded 🙌
I enjoy so much watching similarities between cultures .... We do exactly the same with watermelons in Greece
Looks amazing 🤩
Yup all farmers say this too whenever I go buy fresh watermelons never been let down
They're sweet regardless of whatever watermelon I get
It looks already sweetest at all in the first impression by the big clean yellow patch....
I wonder what my ancestors thoughts on watermelon were.🤔
I also tap the watermelon and wait for the ancestors to call back💕💯🥰
The yellow on it only means it sat on the ground and that side got no sun, and has nothing to do with the sweetness. But the hollow sound from
Tapping it has always worked well.
Omg that looks so good
I take this into account but also by how heavy it is too. If it sounds hollow but it’s really heavy especially for its size that means it’s juicier. Works every time.