The cucumber is eaten raw, in a salad, in sticks or in a yogurt sauce. It is full of water: for a salad that does not swim, you salt it and let it drain for twenty minutes.
Firm from end to end, green, heavy. A cucumber that is soft at the ends is old.
Wash it. Peel it if the skin is waxed or thick, otherwise it is eaten. For a yogurt sauce, cut it in half and remove the seeds with a spoon.
One minute.
In the fridge, whole, a week. Cut, the cut end covered with film, two or three days.
Cucumber rounds salted and drained for twenty minutes, with the page "Homemade vinaigrette".