No more bland watermelons! Here’s a sure-fire visual guide to finding the sweetest fruit at the market.

is a deep relief in knowing you no longer have to “hope” your watermelon is good. The field spot, the sugar webbing, the dry stem, the surprising heaviness in your hands—these are love letters from the plant, proof that the work is already done. You’re simply choosing the fruit that stayed long enough in the sun to finish its story.

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