Sorry. I didn't mean to leave you all hanging in regard to the secret of picking out watermelons, I was just going with the flow of my topic. I know that for years I was told to thump them and the ripe ones sounded different. Let me tell you I have thumped many a watermelon and rarely heard anything different between them. Consequently, it was more of a crap shoot as to whether it was good or not.
Holly's secret.. and honestly, I think she got it from Alton Brown on the Food Network's show Good Eats, is to look at the spot where the melon was laying on the ground (see picture below - it's the discolored area that doesn't look like all the rest) and to find the one that is more yellow.
It's that easy - almost too simple. Now I don't know if this is a scientific type of tip, but it has worked for me all summer. In fact I bought two more yesterday at Sam's (oh, and I've got all my good ones this summer at Sam's - again, don't know if that's relevant, but..) and the one I cut up to put in the fridge yesterday afternoon - sugar sweet.
Oh, and my apologies for the picture. I kept taking the pics with my phone and I turned them all the correct way, but then when I load it here, it's on its side and I can't figure out how to fix it. So I'm sorry for you having to crick your neck to see the pic correctly.
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