so how do you know which melon to buy at the grocery store? i was at trader joe's yesterday, standing over a big box of melons, and i had no idea which one to buy. do you look for color? do you smell it? do you rap on it with your knuckles and listen to something? note: i did all of these things. and looked like a fool. they all looked/smelled/sounded the same and i had no idea which one was the best one to buy. so i randomly picked one. and it's a little under-ripe. perhaps that is because it is february, but these melons grew up somewhere warmer, so maybe that doesn't matter. i feel like this is one of those secrets of adulthood that i have yet to be let in on: how do you choose a melon?
help.
This is a common problem, arising when the growers pick the melons before they are ripe so they are hard and won't bruise during shipment (like tomatoes, except they don't have to gas the melons to make them turn red). Here is my advice: Press your thumb on the end of the melon where the stem was attached. If it depresses slightly, the melon is ripe. If your thumb punches a hole in the melon, either the melon is overly ripe or you pressed too hard. In either case, put the melon back with the hole down, and walk away while whistling innocently.
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