You can forgo falling upon a lackluster melon and pick out the sweetest and ripest option at the supermarket each and every time using just your fingers
Simply place your index and middle fingers together and use them to measure them against the markings
For the ripest pick, the contrasting green stripes should be about two fingers' width apart.
This nifty hack has certainly blown up on TikTok, where it's amassed more than 28 million views.
It also went viral back in 2021 when Facebook user Kevin-Christie Kestler shared that a farmer told her it was the secret to finding the perfect melon
I put [the trick] to the test," they wrote. "I bought my watermelon and cut it up. It was delicious."
Pay attention to the coloring in between the melon's green stripes, too, which should be a light-greenish hue
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