Comments on: How to Tell If a Peach is Ripe

By: Great recipe for (bruised) peaches « Hong Kong Phoodey

Great recipe for (bruised) peaches « Hong Kong Phoodey — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:36:10 +0000

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By: Todd

Todd — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:24:03 +0000

Thanks for this, I`ll pass it along to my wife! Just the other night she cut into a peach without checking if it was ripe it was like an apple ;)

By: Rob Clack

Rob Clack — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:32:50 +0000

A warm, ripe peach, straight off the tree; bliss!

We used to have a white-fleshed nectarine (Lord Napier) which produced a few gorgeous fruit before succumbing to peach leaf curl. It has now been replaced by a fig.

I dream of growing another Lord Napier and an apricot in the greenhouse, but right now it’s full of tomatoes and peppers. Where would they go? In our rainy summers the tomatoes are too succeptible to blight to be outside.

By: mtp

mtp — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:17:53 +0000

Ria - it’s been quite rainy here - warm but rainy and dull. I’m surprised they have ripened too. It’s on a south-facing wall in a walled, sunken garden. That could be the answer.

By: mtp

mtp — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:16:06 +0000

Diane - I did indeed eat it over the sink. I had no option really, it was so juicy!

By: Ria

Ria — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:15:39 +0000

mmm. As I said before I’m usually a nectarine girl but that does look quite delicious. I’m tempted to grow my own peach trees too now!

I’m surprised how well it’s ripened considering the weather. Have you had Wales’s share of the sunshine then? ;)

By: Mangochild

Mangochild — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:28:29 +0000

I went peach picking the other weekend and the owners made sure to give a “peach lesson” to all of us before we headed out…. the smell of the ripe peach is like a huge “pick me!!” sign :-)

One peach had a suntan - where its leaves fell in a V shape, the peach was light yellow compared to the deep orange of the rest.

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:58:27 +0000

Smell is such an important indicator of ripeness - if you trusted your nose in the supermarket you’d never buy anything! Often their fruit is hard and unripe and rots before it ripens.

Eating a ripe peach is best done over the sink so you’re ready to wash the excess juice off!

I’m very envious of you being able to grow peaches!

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:02:06 +0000

I concur - the peaches are amazingly yummy.

By: jane.l

jane.l — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:22:36 +0000

White peaches are even more fragile than yellow but also more delicious. Surplus can be skinned and liquidised then frozen as an ingredient for Bellini cocktails next year (or Christmas Day perhaps ! ). I have also poached slices very gently in vanilla flavoured syrup and frozen them successfully. Amazingly they retain their flavour, texture and even their fragrance several months later. Mmmmmmmmm.