Its disturbingly common for affordable cantaloupe that suppliers sell to restaurants to be picked from hundreds of miles away, long before its ripe, because otherwise theyd be mush. Buy local
@@bustedkeaton Indeed. Those restaurants should be serving foods that are as local as possible. The more local the better. If I were made Grand Pooh-Bah! I would be tempted to tax food based on how far it traveled from origin to consumption (cheese and dry milk would be taxed less than fresh milk, etc). If it is grown/produced within X kilometers, no tax and maybe even a subsidy.
This is a very mayonnaisian assessment 🤭 and it sounds like few, IF ANY, in this thread has ever even tasted a HamiMelon, lol. But I'm not one to po'leece *you people's* taste buds. But FOR ME, I know that the Hami's crisp texture is IN NO WAY RELATED TO BEING UNripe. It's always entertaining to hear ytewashed "knowledge" of natural/Cultural diet/meds/practices though. 😅 G'luck surviving the KLANdemic Hollowcost (that soopreemazzy has told everyone to pretend is over *before the NEXT round* of geenocydes* ). 🤞🏽😷
Here is the reason Jared is so cool, he doesn't just say what he has and show the audience and explain what it tastes like, he has history that goes with the fruit he finds and compares and contrasts the fruit to similar other fruits. He's like a fruit history teacher. Cool 😎!
i remember i once went to go buy a melon from a store and the cashier had no idea what it was she had never heard of a watermelon she was like 20 and watermelons are in every store here basically
It's difficult in our larger Asian markets here in NYC. Many of the workers speak little English, pleasantries aside. Some of them don't even have the produce signs in English.
I LOVE hami melons! We used to get them here in MX in our local supermarkets every now and then. I found that with regular supermarket melons it’s more likely you’ll get an insipid nasty melon. These ones are a bit more expensive but in my experience they’re always sweet.
3:45 Nah, it's *THEEEE SWEETEST* cantaloupe-tasting melon I've EVER HAD, with the *most* crispy apple texture. Ain't NO "SAVORY", "MUSK", nor lack of sweetness.... And after tasting it, it has since been My favorite melon OF ALL TIME. But for the record, I appreciate the unnoticed notes you often include in your tastings.....
Probably my favorite melon, I believe I have had a similar cultivar to yours, it is so refreshing. 😻 I heard some cats enjoy the smell of cantaloupe, have you ever given a little bit to your kitties? 😋🍈 My CH cat enjoys occasional melon treats, whereas my picky boi is not a fan. I hope you have a peaceful day today Jared. ✌️
i really enjoy seeing all of the different fruits, but what i would REALLY like is if you started showing more fruits that are their OWN thing entirely, nothing else like it, at least in terms of flavor. here recently you describe fruits as being extremely or even spot on similar to what we already have in the U.S. just my take, but either way i love hearing about something different in general :) thank you.
Hami melons are among my favorite melons. Among the melons readily available in my local supermarket they are among the most consistent and reliable in texture and flavor.
Thanks for the interesting Video! My father is currently in Uzbekistan, maybe he can try this type of melon. :) I looked in your videos but I think you haven't tried the amazon tree grape yet. It's a very interesting tree/fruit. I really enjoyed them, when I was in Colombia. Maybe you can try them next time when you are in South America?
You might consider adding a link to any past videos that you mention specifically, like the Chinese melon video here, as a popup card overlay, or even just a link in the additional info box below the title. It’s a good way to get additional views.
I have one of those hami melons on my counter right now and that's why I'm here. I looked up hami melons and this was the first video that came to me. I got it at publix here in florida
wondering if they are being grown in greenhouse or can take the cool to cold climate outside? the best tasting melon i had this year is a Picasso melon it was the sweetest melon i have ever eaten, i saved the seeds to grow my own next year.
@@WeirdExplorer Jared try melon 🍈 gaúcho or also called caipira is a 🟡 melon with round and with some different format of Peel. Is very rare melon is more common in south Brazil like the state of Rio grande do Sul!!! Keep up jared!!!!!
I too have had Hami several times before Jared reviewed it here, but the best Hami I've had was fully ripe with soft flesh. Very sweet and juicy. Crunchy Hami is good also, but nothing compares to that soft Hami
Have you tried the Petit Gris De Rennes aka Little grey melon? Its a french heirloom variety! I grew it this year and it usually turns yellow when ripe tho i had a few that became ripe and stayed green. Its sweet and crispier than a normal American cantaloupe. I love it!!
all melons come from central Asia?!?! I need more education about this! 😅 haha never knew. So like, even our vaunted and relished watermelon so popular in the US originally came from somewhere over there maybe? If so, amazing! Glad it did!
I mean the species cucumis melo, which is the majority of melons. watermelon is a different genus of fruit, originates from the Kalahari desert area in Africa i believe
yum i love melons and this is one of my favs too! wish we could grow them better here in Ecuador... so far only cantaloupes are in the market and nothing else :(
Last time I was talking about melons on this channel, I was demonetized (that's where I thought we were going with that statement) Anyways on an unrelated topic, I have been playing a video game called Dinkum. In that game there is a fruit called "quandong". I have asked a few Australian people I know and they've never tried it. I was wondering if maybe the Weird Explorer might have given it a go in the past, if not would you keep an eye out for it?
Thank you Jared. There are to forces when it comes to the taste of food. One force wants simple flavors, that are bit tame. Then there is the drive to seek flavors that are overwhelming experiene. The first force has people saying, "That onion is sweet as an apple." Why don't they eat a God d*mn apple? Then there people who just want to taste something. I used to live near a Korean market, and they sold home made Kimchi. It was very good. I had friend who would come over, and say, "I think something spoiled." I told hime it was the Kimchi. He insisted I throw it out as he gagged. I told him the smells was just garlic and ginger. He left anways. The first force controling the tasted of dominates society. It's like no is happy until they are lobotimized, and sucking sugar cubes. I've had musk mellons that smelled so strong, my home smelled great for week a week after it was gone. That hardly happens anymore.
yeah, the second one takes some experience maybe. when I was a kid I think I would have been happy just eating sugar cubes, but now... give me the damn kimchi! 😄
Kimchi is fermented cabbage - the smells certainly aren't just garlic and ginger. If you aren't used to it is certainly not unforseeable that it could be deeply umpleasant, partcularly if it is strong kimchi. I feel like you're complaining about cultural tastes, rather than people disliking flavorful things. Most people seem to like vinegar and soured milk products. Those are not mild flavors or smells, but they are used to them. Don't mistake avoiding novel taste experiences as avoiding flavorful foods. Those are very different things, and some people just aren't comfortable stepping outside of their cultural boxes. Nothing wrong with that.
I wonder if it might have something to do with the soil in this Hami region is especially conducive to growing the best possible melons. Also, I want to say there another RUclips creator called The Kiwi Grower, and he grew a bunch of melons, and one of the ones he ate in the video looked just like this. I can't be 100% sure, but I think he was describing it as a golden watermelon or something like that.
I love your channel. As someone who struggles to eat fruit at times due to texture stuff I wonder if you would consider doing a video of accessible and beginner friendly fruits
Here in Taiwan both cantaloupe and honeydew are called hami melon with no way to distinguish them except stating the color of the flesh, and we don't have the real hami melon.
I was interested when you said there are 200 varieties of Hami melons. Your videos are entertaining and educational, but I think you could be onto something bigger, of finding new products for grocery stores to introduce them to mass markets. First by importing then finding domestic growers. Perhaps you could partner with miami fruit or frieda or some ag college. Also DNA testing some of these exotic fruit might be worthwhile if you could find a sponsor, somebody like George Church of the open genome project. You could be discovering new flavors for the candies of tomorrow. Some of the stuff you review is not commercially growable, but the flavors can be replicated in the lab.
I was gonna say that looks an awful lot like a melon we sell at my work here in Oregon that we know as the Canary melon but those ones generally have a smooth skin, and very soft incredibly juicy white flesh. It certainly isn't the same thing, just listening to you bite into that sounded like biting into an apple. I don't know I've ever heard of one like that before, I guess watermelon can be kinda crispy in texture but this thing looks like a whole 'nother level.
VERY ACCURATE observation. Tastes like THE SWEEEETEST canteloupe you've EVER tasted, with the texture of THE CRISPEST APPLE you've EVER had. They're unbelievably delicious... Crisp & sweet. Amazing at both room temperature AND refrigerated.
this melon is very popular in afghanistan and is grown there, and grown by afghans in california, sold in afgan markets, as well as asian markets. i first tried it as a gift from an afghan friend. so silk road/settlers/etc.
I would take the melons, with which I am familiar so far, over strawberries. Salad bar melon slices are not the best. I avoid those, really. Home grown, or even from the grocery store, are the way to go. Trouble is you need to have people around to share it with -- or some chickens to feed any excess and the rinds. Watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew --- in that order. A good well-grown and ripe cantaloupe will stink you out of the house, though. Some people can't stand it. It's like chopped raw onions or cabbage cooking --- stinky in such a way, but actually very tasty and really good for you.
If any one knows where i can get seeds of this exact cultivar or other similarly sweet and crispy and juicy melons, especially if they can handle really hot summers, I'd love to know!
It is disturbingly common in the US for restaurants to serve cantaloupe before it is actually ripe - crunchy and little flavor.
Its disturbingly common for affordable cantaloupe that suppliers sell to restaurants to be picked from hundreds of miles away, long before its ripe, because otherwise theyd be mush. Buy local
@@bustedkeaton Indeed. Those restaurants should be serving foods that are as local as possible. The more local the better. If I were made Grand Pooh-Bah! I would be tempted to tax food based on how far it traveled from origin to consumption (cheese and dry milk would be taxed less than fresh milk, etc). If it is grown/produced within X kilometers, no tax and maybe even a subsidy.
Serving melon in a restaurant, amazing 🤯
But I like crunchy melons! They’re not too sweet and has a nice toothsome quality!
This is a very mayonnaisian assessment 🤭 and it sounds like few, IF ANY, in this thread has ever even tasted a HamiMelon, lol.
But I'm not one to po'leece *you people's* taste buds.
But FOR ME, I know that the Hami's crisp texture is IN NO WAY RELATED TO BEING UNripe.
It's always entertaining to hear ytewashed "knowledge" of natural/Cultural diet/meds/practices though. 😅
G'luck surviving the KLANdemic Hollowcost (that soopreemazzy has told everyone to pretend is over *before the NEXT round* of geenocydes* ). 🤞🏽😷
Hami melons are ridiculously delicious. So glad they have them at my Costco
Until now, I hadn’t thought of melons as being “full of stringy snot.”
Thanks for that image, Jared.
Right, and apparently there is not like “a whole lot of mushy crap on the inside” Bon appetite!
Here is the reason Jared is so cool, he doesn't just say what he has and show the audience and explain what it tastes like, he has history that goes with the fruit he finds and compares and contrasts the fruit to similar other fruits. He's like a fruit history teacher. Cool 😎!
Sometimes talking with the shopkeeper is super informative, sometimes they know a bunch of stuff, since it is literally their job. But not always.
i remember i once went to go buy a melon from a store and the cashier had no idea what it was she had never heard of a watermelon she was like 20 and watermelons are in every store here basically
Love how this is phrased like a tip on a video game loading screen
It's difficult in our larger Asian markets here in NYC. Many of the workers speak little English, pleasantries aside. Some of them don't even have the produce signs in English.
I've had that problem here in our Asian mkt as well. And I live in the swamplands of Florida!@@timothygreer188
You certainly do a lot of thinking about fruits. I love your insights!
This has now become my favorite melon, the texture is not as mealy as cantaloupe, and it takes to savory seasonings like salt and zataar quite well
I very much enjoy your shows I have been wondering what do you do with all these wonderful seeds you aquire threw your adventures
I LOVE hami melons! We used to get them here in MX in our local supermarkets every now and then. I found that with regular supermarket melons it’s more likely you’ll get an insipid nasty melon. These ones are a bit more expensive but in my experience they’re always sweet.
I literally thought they CAME from Mexico, that was the first place I saw them regularly in my life.
I honestly can't believe that there's a fruit that I tried before you did XD. but yes, Hami melons are great in the summer, really refreshing
3:45 Nah, it's *THEEEE SWEETEST* cantaloupe-tasting melon I've EVER HAD, with the *most* crispy apple texture.
Ain't NO "SAVORY", "MUSK", nor lack of sweetness.... And after tasting it, it has since been My favorite melon OF ALL TIME.
But for the record, I appreciate the unnoticed notes you often include in your tastings.....
You should review squash. Over the summer I grew crookneck, pattypan, butternut, buttercup, dumpling, zucchini, and sugar pumpkins.
I should! they are trickier because I'd want to cook them
@@WeirdExplorer why not do a cooked series?
@@WeirdExplorer you could do both ways with the pumpkin, the squash too but it might not taste like much
You are a great inspiration for me.
Keep up the good work.
Hugs from Brazil
Great! Now this grow-a-holic - wants seeds for next season! 😂
Probably my favorite melon, I believe I have had a similar cultivar to yours, it is so refreshing. 😻 I heard some cats enjoy the smell of cantaloupe, have you ever given a little bit to your kitties? 😋🍈 My CH cat enjoys occasional melon treats, whereas my picky boi is not a fan. I hope you have a peaceful day today Jared. ✌️
The Silk Road Melon ! I love its' history !
i really enjoy seeing all of the different fruits, but what i would REALLY like is if you started showing more fruits that are their OWN thing entirely, nothing else like it, at least in terms of flavor. here recently you describe fruits as being extremely or even spot on similar to what we already have in the U.S. just my take, but either way i love hearing about something different in general :) thank you.
Hami melons are among my favorite melons. Among the melons readily available in my local supermarket they are among the most consistent and reliable in texture and flavor.
Seems like an ideal melon, love the minimal waste material on the inside.
That looks so good! Keep up the good work!!
Thanks for the interesting Video! My father is currently in Uzbekistan, maybe he can try this type of melon. :)
I looked in your videos but I think you haven't tried the amazon tree grape yet. It's a very interesting tree/fruit. I really enjoyed them, when I was in Colombia. Maybe you can try them next time when you are in South America?
Its good to see you're still making videos.. And you made it through the covid pandemic..
These are one of my favorite melons! Less sickly sweet when ripe than a vine-ripened cantaloupe, which I like a lot more, actually.
You might consider adding a link to any past videos that you mention specifically, like the Chinese melon video here, as a popup card overlay, or even just a link in the additional info box below the title. It’s a good way to get additional views.
Amazing crunch
I have one of those hami melons on my counter right now and that's why I'm here. I looked up hami melons and this was the first video that came to me. I got it at publix here in florida
I’m not a big fan of melons either. They’re my least favorite kind of fruit. But now I’m looking forward to hopefully trying the Hami melon one day!!
wondering if they are being grown in greenhouse or can take the cool to cold climate outside? the best tasting melon i had this year is a Picasso melon it was the sweetest melon i have ever eaten, i saved the seeds to grow my own next year.
hmm I haven't seen the Picasso melon yet, I'll look for it :)
@@WeirdExplorer Jared try melon 🍈 gaúcho or also called caipira is a 🟡 melon with round and with some different format of Peel. Is very rare melon is more common in south Brazil like the state of Rio grande do Sul!!! Keep up jared!!!!!
why did I watch this before cutting into my own? I don't really know, but I'm glad I did because now I know where it came from!
I never thought about anything about these while eating different melons.
3:18, love the technical terms you use.🙃
You are starting to think like a seed saver/plant breeder. good!
This looks like it would be amazing for getting to roast the seeds without needing to destructure the fruit
I never knew that crunchie melons exist. I really wanna try it.
Watermelon is sorta crunchy
@@rattlesnakz9716 Yeah, if you eat the rind :D
@@bento4876 🤣
You're gonna fall IN LOVE with themmmmm!!
I just got one of these a few days before watching this. My take on it is the texture and taste is like a cross between a cantaloupe and an Asian pear
Just tried this for the first time today, so nice! Very sweet and refreshing. Perfect for summer
I too have had Hami several times before Jared reviewed it here, but the best Hami I've had was fully ripe with soft flesh. Very sweet and juicy. Crunchy Hami is good also, but nothing compares to that soft Hami
I’ve had the same experience. I love Hami and most are crispy like this, but the best one I’ve had was soft fleshed and absolutely amazing.
Have you tried the Petit Gris De Rennes aka Little grey melon? Its a french heirloom variety! I grew it this year and it usually turns yellow when ripe tho i had a few that became ripe and stayed green. Its sweet and crispier than a normal American cantaloupe. I love it!!
man hami melons are so good. I love them!
all melons come from central Asia?!?! I need more education about this! 😅 haha never knew. So like, even our vaunted and relished watermelon so popular in the US originally came from somewhere over there maybe? If so, amazing! Glad it did!
I mean the species cucumis melo, which is the majority of melons. watermelon is a different genus of fruit, originates from the Kalahari desert area in Africa i believe
I believe watermelon came from Africa to the U.S. via the transatlantic slave trade.
@@WeirdExplorer very cool thank you for the additional education!
awesome melon
yum i love melons and this is one of my favs too! wish we could grow them better here in Ecuador... so far only cantaloupes are in the market and nothing else :(
Last time I was talking about melons on this channel, I was demonetized (that's where I thought we were going with that statement) Anyways on an unrelated topic, I have been playing a video game called Dinkum. In that game there is a fruit called "quandong". I have asked a few Australian people I know and they've never tried it. I was wondering if maybe the Weird Explorer might have given it a go in the past, if not would you keep an eye out for it?
This one looks cool! Huge, crispy, like a watermelon but different.
"Like a tomato, kind of like that heartiness, but not so savory that you wouldn't want to eat it as a dessert."
*Laughs in Taiwan*
Thank you Jared. There are to forces when it comes to the taste of food. One force wants simple flavors, that are bit tame. Then there is the drive to seek flavors that are overwhelming experiene. The first force has people saying, "That onion is sweet as an apple." Why don't they eat a God d*mn apple? Then there people who just want to taste something. I used to live near a Korean market, and they sold home made Kimchi. It was very good. I had friend who would come over, and say, "I think something spoiled." I told hime it was the Kimchi. He insisted I throw it out as he gagged. I told him the smells was just garlic and ginger. He left anways. The first force controling the tasted of dominates society. It's like no is happy until they are lobotimized, and sucking sugar cubes. I've had musk mellons that smelled so strong, my home smelled great for week a week after it was gone. That hardly happens anymore.
yeah, the second one takes some experience maybe. when I was a kid I think I would have been happy just eating sugar cubes, but now... give me the damn kimchi! 😄
Kimchi is fermented cabbage - the smells certainly aren't just garlic and ginger. If you aren't used to it is certainly not unforseeable that it could be deeply umpleasant, partcularly if it is strong kimchi.
I feel like you're complaining about cultural tastes, rather than people disliking flavorful things. Most people seem to like vinegar and soured milk products. Those are not mild flavors or smells, but they are used to them. Don't mistake avoiding novel taste experiences as avoiding flavorful foods. Those are very different things, and some people just aren't comfortable stepping outside of their cultural boxes. Nothing wrong with that.
The melons in a restaurant fruit cup don’t taste good because they almost always use melons that are unripe and/or out of season.
sounds tasty! i love melon 🍈 and that crispness sounds really nice.
Looks like a great melon . We at Kallstrom Sweet Corn here in Eastern WA. sell lots of melons .
Love ya brothers!
10$, in Ephrata for a sugar baby is TOO much.
Neutral sweet crunch is a good description for Hami melon
My mom from Xinjiang loves hami melons and ate it a lot growing up. I like it but I like honeydew melons more.
holy cow 305k subs.NIice!
Would this one be nice for savory applications? Maybe with something salty or chopped up really thin for a spicy salad sort of deal?
I wonder if it might have something to do with the soil in this Hami region is especially conducive to growing the best possible melons. Also, I want to say there another RUclips creator called The Kiwi Grower, and he grew a bunch of melons, and one of the ones he ate in the video looked just like this. I can't be 100% sure, but I think he was describing it as a golden watermelon or something like that.
I love your channel. As someone who struggles to eat fruit at times due to texture stuff I wonder if you would consider doing a video of accessible and beginner friendly fruits
These are common here where I live and I love them 😮
Here in Taiwan both cantaloupe and honeydew are called hami melon with no way to distinguish them except stating the color of the flesh, and we don't have the real hami melon.
I love hami watermelon!
What a beautiful melon! Go throw the seeds on every earthen surface in NYC and let's start foraging these babies!
Melon seeds need a few years to ripen, and may be not viable the first year.
I was interested when you said there are 200 varieties of Hami melons. Your videos are entertaining and educational, but I think you could be onto something bigger, of finding new products for grocery stores to introduce them to mass markets. First by importing then finding domestic growers. Perhaps you could partner with miami fruit or frieda or some ag college.
Also DNA testing some of these exotic fruit might be worthwhile if you could find a sponsor, somebody like George Church of the open genome project.
You could be discovering new flavors for the candies of tomorrow. Some of the stuff you review is not commercially growable, but the flavors can be replicated in the lab.
Tastes like cantaloupe but crunchy like a watermellon
You should try the orange australian candy melon next !
I love melon, except for "fruit bowl" melon lol. It's either un ripe or sat in fridge long enough to get that slimy coating....bleck!
Really good vids bro I love it keep up the good work
Hami melons are in my experience are just as crispy as the one you had here. Somewhere between the texture of a watermelon and an apple.
Finally a fruit that I eat regularly
Cool that it’s crisp when ripe.
Hopefully it wasn’t too offensive to you as far as melons go, and just think. No melon will ever be as gross as noni.
I just got a very orange Hami. I'm hoping it will be good
I was gonna say that looks an awful lot like a melon we sell at my work here in Oregon that we know as the Canary melon but those ones generally have a smooth skin, and very soft incredibly juicy white flesh. It certainly isn't the same thing, just listening to you bite into that sounded like biting into an apple. I don't know I've ever heard of one like that before, I guess watermelon can be kinda crispy in texture but this thing looks like a whole 'nother level.
VERY ACCURATE observation.
Tastes like THE SWEEEETEST canteloupe you've EVER tasted, with the texture of THE CRISPEST APPLE you've EVER had.
They're unbelievably delicious... Crisp & sweet.
Amazing at both room temperature AND refrigerated.
Can you review a werid looking apple I seen on Facebook n I'm not sure if it's real or not. It was called a black diamond apple?
Isn't cantaloupe a Hami Melon common fruit?
Thats my favorite melon
I want to try it so badly...
this melon is very popular in afghanistan and is grown there, and grown by afghans in california, sold in afgan markets, as well as asian markets. i first tried it as a gift from an afghan friend. so silk road/settlers/etc.
That Hami is very typical of the Hami in New York in that it is too dried out and too crunchy. A good one should be much juicier.
I would take the melons, with which I am familiar so far, over strawberries. Salad bar melon slices are not the best. I avoid those, really.
Home grown, or even from the grocery store, are the way to go. Trouble is you need to have people around to share it with -- or some chickens to feed any excess and the rinds.
Watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew --- in that order. A good well-grown and ripe cantaloupe will stink you out of the house, though. Some people can't stand it. It's like chopped raw onions or cabbage cooking --- stinky in such a way, but actually very tasty and really good for you.
This can't be anywhere near as good as an Iham Lemon
I've eating the exact same hami melon 🍈wierd explorer ate.
If any one knows where i can get seeds of this exact cultivar or other similarly sweet and crispy and juicy melons, especially if they can handle really hot summers, I'd love to know!
I took seeds from a hami melon going to try and grow
his workout consists of lifting giant melons each day for food and for strength!
Green Hami-Hami melons taste better then Golden Hami-Hami melon though both are good
Which melon is the sweetest to you?
That melon is not ready should be very soft.
I'm surprised you're doing melons since you don't really like melon.
Gotta be hard to describe them when its not on a favs list
I am not a fan of melons because of the texture so this being crunchy piques my interest.
is this tobuscis
Ours tastes better than your describe. We're in Canada and the melon is from Guatemala
MRSA melon, what? Think I'll take a pass on that one
Ever have a pepino melon?
🍈🍉🐒
meh-lons
Hami melons are Uyghur melons, not really Chinese.
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