English cucumber
Cucumis sativus · Fruit vegetable
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The English cucumber (Cucumis sativus), also called the hothouse, telegraph, burpless or seedless cucumber, is a long, slender, thin-skinned cultivar group grown almost entirely under glass. Stretching 30–40 cm with smooth, ridge-free, deep-green skin and a near-seedless core, it is milder, sweeter and far less bitter than a field-grown slicer — sold individually shrink-wrapped in plastic because its delicate, unwaxed skin would otherwise dry out within days.
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
These cues are Cucumber's, and hold across its varieties; where this one differs, its own page says so.
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