What to do if the watermelon is not ripe after being cut

In summer, watermelon is very popular among everyone. It is very watery and has the effect of quenching thirst and promoting diuresis. However, you must be careful when choosing watermelons, because sometimes the watermelon will not be ripe and will not taste very sweet. If you find that the watermelon is not ripe after cutting it, you can fry the watermelon into juice, add some glucose to season it to make watermelon juice. You can also cut the watermelon into slices, dry it and soak it in water to drink, which is also a good way.

1. Weigh it

The riper the watermelon, the lighter it is. Generally speaking, for watermelons of the same size, lighter ones are better, while heavier ones are unripe.

2. Listen to the sound

Hold the watermelon in your hand and tap it lightly with your fingers. If it makes a crisp "dong, dong" sound and your hand feels a little trembling, it is ripe. If it makes a "thump, thump" sound, it is relatively mature. If it makes a "puff, puff" sound, it is overripe. If it makes a "tap, tap" sound, it is raw.

3. Look at the appearance

1) Look at the melon rind. The skin of raw melon is green and bright. As the melon matures, the rind becomes darker in color.

2) Look at the navel of the melon. The navel of a watermelon will become concave when it is ripe. If you look at ripe watermelons more often, you will understand the degree of the concavity. Combined with the comprehensive judgment mentioned earlier, it is not difficult to know whether the watermelon is ripe.

3) Look at the beginning and the end. A good melon is one with symmetrical ends, deep depressions at the navel and stem, and fullness all around. A melon with a big head and a small tail, or a pointed head and a thick tail, is of poor quality. The smaller the circle at the bottom of the watermelon, the better. On the contrary, the bigger the circle at the bottom, the thicker the skin, and the more unpalatable it is.

4) Look at the stem of the melon. The green ones are ripe melons; the dark brown ones, those with falling fuzz, those that are bent and brittle, and those with yellow and withered tips of the curled filaments are melons that were picked unripe; the melons with dried stems are "dead vine melons" and of poor quality; if the stem is a straight line, don't discard it, but if it is curled and circled, it is very sweet.

Steps to read

Touch the skin

Feel the melon skin with your fingers. If the skin is smooth, it is a good melon. If the skin is sticky and soft, it is a bad melon.