When cicadas begin to chirp and the surface temperature in the northern hemisphere rises rapidly, it means that the season of biting and chasing drama begins. But the world is so big, there are so many melons. Facing fruit stalls on the street and melons with uneven quality in supermarkets. How can we develop a pair of eyes? For your good fortune in summer, please follow Xiaobian's steps.
It is a knowledge to choose watermelons. You need to master many skills to choose the best watermelons. Just like the four methods in traditional Chinese medicine. People often say that the crooked melon matches the cracked dates, so first of all, it's the superficial conclusion of appearance - Wang:
1. Look at the size. Compared with the same kind of watermelon, the bigger one is better.
2. Appearance. The melon body is neat and well-balanced, with normal growth and good quality; the melon body is deformed, with abnormal growth and poor quality.
3. Color observation. The melon with smooth surface, clear pattern, obvious lines and yellow bottom is mature; the melon with hairy surface, dim luster, unclear spots and lines is immature.
4. Look at the melon handle. The green ones are ripe melons; the ones with dark brown, fallen down hairs, bent and crispy hair, curled whisker tip turning yellow and withered are the ones that are picked when they are not ripe; the handle of the melon has withered, and they are 'dead rattan melons', with poor quality.
5. Look at the head and the tail. The two ends of a good watermelon are very well proportioned. Those with deep sunken navel and pedicel and full appearance are good melons. Those with large head and small tail or thick tip and tail indicate that they are poor quality melons.
Moreover, in the four methods of traditional Chinese Medicine - Wen, I think you all had the experience of listening to adults to fix melons when you were young. Yes, Wen is also one of the steps to select good melons. If you can hear "bang" with your fingers, it's a ripe melon; if you can hear "Dangdang", it's not ripe, if you can hear "puff", it's an overripe melon.
Secondly, we will directly skip the link of "ask" and come to "cut". Of course, cutting with a knife will more intuitively reflect the quality of melon, but we have to be considerate of businesses, after all, it will go bankrupt. We here - cut, a more clear expression is to get started.
1. Handle it by hand. If you have a sense of floating, it's a ripe melon; if you have a sense of sinking, it's a raw melon.
2. Specific elasticity. The melon skin is thin and fragile when pressed with fingers. It is a ripe melon. The nail is scratched to crack and the melon is soft. It is an overcooked melon.
3. Test specific gravity. When you put it in the water, it's a ripe melon; when it sinks, it's a raw melon
Finally, I'd like to explain for you - ask, unless you have specific functions to communicate with watermelon, otherwise, it's wise to ask the friends who have read this article on selecting melons! Well, Xiaobian is going to catch up with my delicious watermelon.