D-I-Y Fruit Ripening

[Huge]

Yep, that's it. Except as well as being inedible, we only got half a dozen pears. I think the trees are going to be firewood.

[Chris Hogg]

Pears grown from a pip, a popular thing for kids to do, are often not very good; they are open-pollinated and don't come true to their parent trees.

Some pears go from unripe to over-ripe very quickly. There's a saying that you have to sit up all night to get a William pear when its ripe.

[Paul Herber]

Waitrose - 5 days YFMMV

[tabbypurr]

... of starvation required before most people get willing to pay their prices.

NT

[Bob Eager]

Or try Ocado. They price match, and the supply chain is shorter.

[jkn]

Insert obligatory link to Eddie Izzard sketch:

(around 4m20 mark)

Jon N

[bert]

No actually I haven't. What could I use to generate gamma rays? I could also try the local hospital's X-ray department. I'm just a bit too far from Sellafield to make the trip worthwhile although they do park up nuclear waste trains in Crewe sidings overnight so maybe that might be worth a try. OTOH maybe the brown paper bag is worth a try first.

[bert]

Not entirely. Just wanted to make it vaguely on topic and to make it slightly humorous. Any of the fruit which is sold as Ripen in the Bowl. Apricots peaches nectarines etc.

[bert]

FFS I want to ripen it not shred it into little slices. I use the AG fro slicing onions and the flavour would transfer to the fruit.

[bert]

My point exactly. I was hoping someone might have a solution.

[tim...]

I've got two fruits in my bowl that I bought in Lidl 3 days ago

not a sign of either of them being edible yet!

tim

[tim...]

they price match to Lidl?

tim

[tim...]

problem is, I only like under rip bananas

using them to ripen other fruit would see me throwing away the bananas at the end

tim

[tim...]

but we do know it should taste of *something*

tim

[PeterC]

Like some bananas - go from green to black and miss out yellow. Sublime!

[alan_m]

I think that's a bit unfair. I have had quality longish lasting fruit and veg from Lidl/Aldi and from the larger supermarkets fruit and veg that has had a poor shelf life and/or has never ripened - and visa versa. I'm not sure that any of supermarket retailers is any different from each other.

Having stayed in a rural village environment for 3 weeks recently where the local shops (including independent supermarkets) pride themselves in supplying (very) local produce the difference in local in season produce was noticeable and better, but at a price. In addition, lot of road side houses and small holdings were selling surpluses. Anything else imported from other parts of the world were of the same quality as the large national retailers.

[alan_m]

They probably only price match expensive "BRANDS" which doesn't apply to fruit and veg.

[alan_m]

Learn to cook with blackened bananas.

[Jethro_uk]

true that :)

[Capitol]

Are you sure they're not p0lastic?