如何挑出最好的西瓜? 專家來教你!
How to select the best watermelons? Food blogger Emma Christensen recently offered some advice.
如何才能挑出最好的西瓜？美食博主艾瑪·克里斯滕森近日給出了一些建議。
When you.examine watermelons in the produce section of your local grocery, you want to look for the heaviest one for its size.
在當地食品雜貨店的農產品區挑西瓜時，你應該在同等大小的西瓜中挑最重的那一個。
The denser the fruit, the more juice it has. That's when it's at its most ripe.
西瓜的密度越大，汁水就越多。這也意味着西瓜熟透了。
Next, check the underside of the watermelon for the "splotch". That's the yellow patch the watermelon develops by resting on the ground. If it's a creamy yellow, it's also a good indicator of being ripe.
接下來，看西瓜的底部有沒有“斑”。西瓜在生長過程中接觸地面的地方會形成黃色的斑塊。如果斑塊呈乳黃色，那就說明西瓜熟了。
Finally, give the underside a little smack - not aggressive enough to draw attention from grocery workers, but enough so that you can determine whether the watermelon sounds hollow.
最後，輕輕拍一下西瓜底部，不要太用力，以免引起雜貨店員工的注意，只要能聽到西瓜聲音是否空洞就夠了。
If it does, that's good. If it sounds dull, like you're hitting a solid brick of material, it's overripe; put the watermelon down and slowly back away from it.
如果發出空洞的聲音，那麼就是好西瓜。如果聲音沉悶，就像碰到一塊實心磚頭一樣，那就說明熟過頭了，把西瓜放下，慢慢地離開它吧。
If you're not confident in your watermelon evaluation abilities, there's another option: You can ask the merchant to pick one out for you. Pay attention to what he's doing and then try to emulate it the next time you're forced to choose your own produce.
如果你對自己的挑瓜水平沒有信心，還有另外一個辦法：你還可以讓賣瓜的人幫你挑。不過你得注意他是怎麼挑西瓜的，下次你不得不親自挑選西瓜的時候，可以模仿他的做法。
