This winter we have been enjoying some of the best pears here in Oregon but the past two weeks we have been unable to get our pears to ripen. We had a method that was working well, but suddenly it seems to have stopped working so I thought I would post here and see if anyone has any ideas.
We buy our pears in a big bag from Costco and pull about six out and store the rest in the fridge.
We place the 6 that we pulled out in a brown bag like this one and leave it on the table for 4-5 days. Once those pears are ripe we eat them and add the pears from the fridge to the bag to repeat the process.
All winter we have been using this method and enjoying juicy delicious pears. However, starting last week the pears just would not ripen in the bag no matter how long we left them in there. The tops would get all soft and shriveled but the pear would still be rock hard. Seriously slicing into one of these pears is like slicing into an apple (and they taste terrible like that too). We love eating pears and I am hoping that someone might have some ideas that we can try to get things rolling again. Anyone have any suggestions or a special way that you like to ripen pears?
5 comments:
Wow, that's weird! I normally ripen pears the way you do, so no secret tips from me! Let me know if you come up with a new way.
I've found the best way to ripen strawberries is to put them in a plastic ziploc bag. Maybe try that with one pear and see if it works.
I was going to suggest the paper bag method before I got to that part. Sorry, no great ideas.
Zoey is really keeping an eye on those pears!
We tried a thinner paper bag and that seems to be working. Hooray!
I put some bananas into the box w/ the fruit. they always ripen quickly and they "influence" the other fruit when they offgas chemicals. sounds like bs, but it works better than when I don't add in the bananas. google it and you'll see I'm not the only one :)
I describe this process as "the fruit will smell that the banana is ripe, so it will ripen" to Andy to annoy him.
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