'Time Bomb'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Do you, personally, refrigerate fruit like apples, peaches, and pears, or leave them out of the fridge until you eat them?
If it needs to be kept and is ripe, I fridge. My place is too damn warm in summer not to fridge. But I pull them out and want to eat them at much closer to room temp.
I put it all in the fridge usually. Otherwise I end up with a bowl of fruit on the counter thinking "if it's out I'll eat it more!" and then a week later theres fruit flies and something is rotting. Oops.
I typically fridge. Usually I buy a big bunch of apples to be lunch snack for a week or two. And if they stay on the counter, they go bad. In the fridge, they last a lot longer. By the time lunch comes around, they are close to room temperature. Grapes go in the fridge. And I usally buy a couple fruit cups of cantaloupe/honey dew, so those go in the fridge. But right now, my counter has a bunch of tangelo's (sp?) Mom's fiance ::shudder:: had a box of them, and put a bunch on the counter. I also purchased a whole honey dew, so I need to cut it open and carve it up, but then the stuff inside will go in the fridge.
Grapes and berries in fridge. Other fruit out.
What Scrappy Said.
everything but tomatoes in the fridge.
Fridges make peaches go all mealy.
Huh.
I miss real homegrown tomatoes. When I see a tomato that all pale and mealy in the middle, I throw it away. Gross.
Yeah, I know, I could go to the farmer's market.
As Scrappy goes, so goes my fruit storage. Even when my kitchen is super warm.
Eta: oh, wait, plums go into the fridge at least some of the time, because of William Carlos Williams.
Bananas and citrus on the counter (lemons & limes straight into fridge) melon and apples on a coolish porch. Peaches on the counter until ripe, then fridged because we can't eat them all before they spoil. Cherries, grapes and strawberries into fridge. Grapes, strawberries and peaches get washed and dried, peaches get pitted and sectioned, skin on, and each fruit gets frozen on flat trays, then bagged and kept frozen for smoothies in the case of peaches and berries, or for eating out-of-hand.