Large Yellow Cucumbers!

If you've got a variety of cucumber that's a yellow cucumber, they should be yellow. Now, if you're letting the cucumbers grow and grow and grow until they turn yellow...that's a different story, unless you're growing them out to take seed from. When they get too big and start turning yellow (if it's a green variety) they tend to be bitter and tough.

A cucumer turns yellow when it ripens. At this point very few people eat them like they do when they are green. I will eat a big cucmber that is still green but I stay away fromt eh yellowones as they are usually bitter. But, having said that, big, yellow cucumbers are great for mustard pickles. I have never heard of any type of cucumber that is yellow when at its best to eat.

If you want to eat them raw, pick them while they're still green. When they start to turn yellow, they're maturing and the flavor changes. Seeds get bigger and start to ripen and the flesh softens. You'll need to cook them or use a special pickling recipe for the best flavor at that point.

I have grown them that big, when I used to have a big garden and two little kids. I jokingly named one the "Yellow Submarine". By the time they are that big and yellow you are going to need to do something like make mock candy apples out of them. Lots of sugar, food coloring, oil of cinnamon. Good luck, but make sure you pick the ones for me a little sooner.

Well, after reading the responses already I have to agree with the majority it seems - bigger is NOT better. When they start to turn yellow I feed them to the goats because the flavor does change - green and crunchy even if small in my book is best. Bread and butter pickles might be a good idea for the huge yellow ones :)