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

so you want to learn how to choose a perfect juicy watermelon well i'm going to show you how so the first thing i do when i'm stalking my herd of watermelon is i'm going to go around and just take a brief overview of the watermelons because i know what i'm looking for all right i'm looking for three things that'll tell me whether the watermelon is gonna be ripe and juicy all right so the first thing i'm gonna look for is a yellow spot most watermelons have some sort of discoloration they can be brown or green but look at that see it's yellow so i'm looking for a nice yellow spot oh there's one alright so that's got a nice yellow spot on it so i'm gonna dig that guy out and the second thing i'm gonna look for is the belly button okay now here we go i'm going to spin it around notice how that's brown i want a brown belly button if you find one that has like a green belly button that means that it was picked too early okay you want to get one with a brown belly button and that tells you that it was picked when it was nice and ripe here let me show you here's a perfect example see this one it's got a green belly button that means that it was picked too early so even though it's got a nice yellow spot i'm not gonna pick that one okay i'm gonna keep looking for watermelon there we go another green one no good all right you want three things you want the yellow spot you want a brown belly button and the last thing that i'm going to show you is the sound that it makes when you tap it it should be a nice hollow sound that sound tells you that it's nice and full of water okay it's almost like if you were tapping on a barrel full of water that's the same kind of sound that you should look for so this three-step method works with any kind of watermelon like these little guys here same thing you're looking for that nice yellow spot and then if you were to turn it over you see that it has a nice brown belly button okay so it wasn't picked too early and then of course you got to give it a little tap and if it makes that good hollow sound then you know that it's juicy on the inside now these here are one of my favorite kind these are the sugar baby watermelons okay that's kind of green and it's got these big bright yellow spots you can't possibly miss it with a sugar baby you turn that over nice brown belly button and then after that you just give it a tap okay tap a tap a tapa and it's all good yeah i think i'm going to take this one home all right so you have your watermelon now this is a sugar baby watermelon and i like this one a lot because the color outside is really dark and then it's got these really noticeable yellow spots so i chose the sugar baby watermelon just because it makes a really good example and also because they are juicy and sweet alright so you have your watermelon you got your yellow spot you got your little brown belly button and when you tap it it's got that really full of water sound almost like a barrel full of water sand alright so now we have the top and the bottom all right so now you grab your knife and just remember to make your life easy your knife should be way longer than your watermelon is wide okay so if your knife is only like this long it's going to make it harder to cut a watermelon alright so make sure you get a nice long knife all right so i'm going to cut off the front of the watermelon spin it around i'm gonna cut the bottom off of it look at that look how beautiful that watermelon is so now you can stand it up and then you're gonna make a cut along the side just like that sort of curved all right now you can see the rind versus the inside of the watermelon and so you're just basically going to cut slices along that rind [Music] so you're just going to shave off the rind okay and spin it so you can always see that rind okay just like that a little piece of rind okay now you want to flip it upside down and you can shave off any pieces of rind that you missed all right so now you end up with zero rind and nothing but the good stuff all right so you want to cut it in half now okay one two and this is just simple geometry now all right i want cubes so i'm going to make slits along here [Music] see look at that you have nice cubes all right and just pick them up with your knife and put them in your bowl just like that and now you have a beautiful bowl of juicy watermelon chunks now the best part is tasting this wow so refreshing so juicy and so sweet because we followed the three rules it's got the bop bop sound it's got the brown belly button and it's got that nice yellow sunspot on it hey thank you guys very much for watching this video if you'd like to help me grow my channel please give this video a like and hit that subscribe button the more likes and the more subscribers i have the faster this channel will grow and the more time i'll be able to spend making videos for you until next time this is christian saying happy watermeloning to you

Channel: Food Chain TV

Views: 4,915,350

Keywords: how to pick watermelon

Id: yRNT64OFBrw

Length: 6min 43sec (403 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 13 2022