Armenian cucumber
Cucumis melo var. flexuosus · Fruit vegetable
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The Armenian cucumber (Cucumis melo var. flexuosus) is a long, slender, deeply ribbed fruit eaten like a cucumber but botanically a melon — pale, thin-skinned and sweetly mild, with the cool, watery crunch of a salad cucumber and none of its bitterness. Also called the snake melon, snake cucumber or yard-long cucumber, it can grow curling and twisting to 60–90 cm (2–3 ft) when left on the vine.
Picking a good onedrag
Field firmSoft and yellow
Shop freshBuy itFirm and green — anything a cucumber does
SkinEven green, taut
FleshFirm, springs back
Cut endDry scar, firm around it
SmellClean, faintly green
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What you get from one
97%
Edible part
216 g · ends trimmed
223 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
Long below 10°C, it pits and collapses. Four days chilled is fine if you use it straight after.
95%
Humidity
Still
Airflow