How to Pick and Cut a Watermelon

Yes, there is a method to the madness when it comes to choosing the best watermelons. Read on for tried-and-true tips and tricks for ensuring you go home with a juicy, sweet, and crispy watermelon. Bonus: learn the secret for easily cutting watermelon into cubes.

There ARE true tricks to picking the juiciest, sweetest watermelon in the bunch. Taratorn/Shutterstock

How To Pick A Watermelon

Have you ever watched grown men and women stand over a watermelon bin, poking and prodding each melon in confusion, and then apprehensively placing one into their shopping cart? Maybe you’ve even been one of them.

After this day, you shall no longer fear the watermelon bin. Here are tried-and-true methods for choosing the best melon in the batch.