Fruit What Temperature ?

[Nyboy]

Growing up my mother always had a bowl on kitchen table filled with fruit. With 4 kids and 2 adults ,the bowl would empty fast. I live alone, fruit does not get eaten quickly so I keep it in the refrigerator so it doesn't spoil. Do you like your fruit at room temperature or cold?

 

[digitS']

Berries and cut melons will be in fridge.

Other than always enjoying melons, Nyboy, my interest in fruit has grown over the years. When I was a young dad, I thought I should make better use of apples. I didn't have much of a liking for apples but knew I liked them in pie . So, I'd cut them up small, sprinkle them with raisins and microwave them for a minute or 2. Splashed with half-n-half, the kids liked them, too. So, apples are best not cold or at room temperature but hot !

I now peel and cut up a fresh apple almost every morning during the fall & winter. One thing that I found out about not liking apples was that it was the peeling that I didn't like. Sorry if there's a lot of vitamins that end up in the compost but I wouldn't eat them unpeeled.

These days, I'm eating a lot of bananas and still on oranges. I don't think bananas should be in the fridge but if there are too many oranges to get to right away, the bag goes in the fridge. I eat them out of the basket on the table, however. In time, they will give way to pears, peaches, apples, etc.

Raisins, figs and banana chips are in jars on the kitchen counter. There are usually several jars with dry fruit available.

Steve

 

[Smart Red]

digitS is right on with his fruit except for the apple peelings -- yum! And while apples are best hot, room temperature slices are delicious.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

well, most pears don't ripen unless they've been chilled so those i put in the fridge for a few weeks if they were bought when hard. peaches i've gotten from the stores lately seem to need the cold to help them ripen enough before eating-i think they pick them too early and send them to the stores hoping they will ripen along the way :/ . apples go in the dish on the counter unless i get a large bag and those extras will go into the fridge. bananas will turn brown too quickly if they are stored in too cold an area so those stay on the counter with the apples.

 

[ninnymary]

I also keep only by berries and cut up melons in the fridge. Everything else is in 2 big bowls on the counter. With 6 preschoolers, we go through a lot of fruit so I don't have a problem with it spoiling.

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

The best bananas I ever had was in Rio De Janeiro, they where so sweet it was like eating candy.

 

[digitS']

Some of those tropical fruits kinda look like a banana . . . kinda smell like a banana . . . but they taste like something else!

Of course, some tropical fruits aren't bananas at all! Mangoes, guava, papaya, lichee, rambutan . . . Pineapples and persimmons are "tropical" fruits to me . Gee, I guess all the citrus fruits are too :/.

About the only fruit (known to me) that I don't eat are grapefruits and I just get a stomach ache from them or the juice these days. My reaction to durian was to get away from it!

Steve