Picking melons requires a lot of attention, and these four steps are very particular.

a bump: ripe melons will be very light, while immature melons will be very heavy. You can roughly judge the ripeness by weighing the hand feel.

second look: ripe melons may not be sweet, because there are many factors related to whether there is too much rain, whether there is enough sunlight, the variety of melons and so on; The bigger the melon is, the higher the chance of being a fool. It is often said that this is the reason for a big fool. The smaller the melon is, the sweeter it is. If there is a wormhole bitten by cricket, such melons are often very sweet; Different varieties of melons have different skills in distinguishing the appearance color. For example, my favorite sugar jar (a kind of cantaloupe), this kind of melon is smaller and rounder, and generally it is good to have a slightly yellow color in the white.

when selecting melons, we should not only look at the size, shape, color, wormholes and so on, but also look at the freshness. Freshness If you touch the skin of a melon by hand, it will be fresh if it is very smooth, while if you touch it weakly, it means that if it is stored for too long, the melon will lose its fragrance.

three smells: the main feature of northeast cantaloupe is that the skin is very thin, especially at the top of the melon. This depends on the effort of the nose. There are many kinds of melon aromas, and the taste and sweet feeling of eating are different. Usually when you smell it, you feel that the sweeter it is, the more pleasant it is. This kind of melon is often very sweet; And some aroma smells uncomfortable, so the taste of this kind of melon is not good, which is often what we often call SAO melon. The skill of nose needs to be practiced, which depends entirely on the feeling of fragrance. If the melon doesn't even have fragrance, its sweetness is very low or it is raw melon.

four pinches: when you buy melons, the melon seller won't let you pinch them hard, which will easily damage the melons. The so-called pinch method is to pick up the melon and gently pinch it with your fingers. This action is almost unnoticed. Why do you want to pinch the melon? I feel the thickness of the melon wall. The raw melon skin is thick and the cooked melon wall is thin. When the melon is ripe, the innermost melon wall will start to flush with meat and sand, and the melon wall will become thinner. When you gently pinch it with your hand, you will feel the feeling of trembling on the wall of the melon, indicating that the cooked wall of the melon is thin and the flesh is crisp; And a pinch of the melon wall is soft, which means that the melon is overcooked, which is what we often say. When pinched, the melon wall feels firm, which means that the thick skin is mostly raw melon.