Food & Dining Are there any fruits that disappoint you?

Those kind need to be sourced from specialty stores, usually upstairs from the main street front shops.

 

Perhaps you need a hand. Just sayin =P

 

I believe stone fruit is often frozen / refrigerated, certainly for much of the Sydney market. Looks great tastes horrible.

 

genius, why did I not think
Of that one

 

My mate taught me years ago when I complained about floury apples. At my last work place I amused my co-workers by predicting how their apples would taste... and getting it right!

 

Grow your own...

A lot of fruit is strip picked and ripened by gas rather than the natural sugars developing, and yes fructose is fruit sugar

 

i thought it was durian for you

 

I know what you mean. I love mandarins but sometimes they can be so dry and tasteless.

 

Good apples are the best! Growing up in Tassie where the apples are amazing, then moving to WA means I'm always disappointed in apples. So hard to find good ones.

 

i Buy my Fruit from the road-side sellers
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Vine-Ripened/Tree-Ripened
Definition:
"Vine-ripened" or "tree-ripened" is a term applied to fruit or vegetables that have ripened on the vine or tree and were then picked when ripe. They often taste better because their flavor and sugars have developed naturally but they can be delicate to the touch and too fragile to ship. Alternatively, fruits shipped long distances may be picked while still unripe, and later treated with ethylene gas to "ripen" and soften them prior to being sold.

 

My disappointment is tomato. Should be a vegetable to start with but there's lots of dry, tasteless rubbish around. Always worth paying more for the vine stuff or take the leaves off and they pass as the cheap ones at checkout (if you're on a budget and think it's ok for multinational supermarkets to subside your food).

 

In answer to Geoff's question:
Do they still call them cantaloupe in Victoria
Yes we do still call them cantaloupe. .
Why rock melon?????

 

You're living my childhood dream! Free fruit from the yard is the best. Working towards the day of having the time and space to tend to this dream. For now it's just passion fruit and fresh herbs. And a small, as yet non productive blackberry bush.

As a young kid I had a friends mum who was renting an old house just outside of town that had a mulberry tree (amongst other fruits) in the yard that was 60-70 years old in good organic soil. It was massive! We would climb around in it for hours scoffing and come down with purple hands. Good times.

 

We've got a huge mulberry tree in one of our IP's - I love them, we eat them straight off the tree but also bake with them, muffins are good and clafouti is the best breakfast ever!

 

Do they freeze well?

During peak of mango season when you can buy a whole tray of Bowens for $10, we'll eat a few and fillet up the rest and freeze in an icecream container for smoothies later.