Persian cucumber
Cucumis sativus · Fruit vegetable
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The Persian cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a short, slender, thin-skinned "Beit Alpha" or mini cucumber — typically 10–15 cm long and only a few centimetres thick, with smooth, bumpless bright-green skin, tiny soft seeds and sweet, crisp, almost bitter-free flesh. Sold loose in bunches or small bags rather than shrink-wrapped, it splits the difference between a stubby field pickling cucumber and a long English hothouse cucumber.
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