This is not a dirty question...........?!
I have to throw them away : (
Answers: Why do some pears I buy never go soft?
I have to throw them away : (
When you buy them try keeping them in a brown paper bag for 2 days.
I have done this before and it ripens them up right away. I also do this with my peaches.
A nice pair is always soft when it is ripe and ready
for eating!
I like a hard pear
ya have to store them in a warm enviornment...like mangos....
ha..funny
If you eat European pears (the ones with the classic "pear shape":
From Wholefoods:
"European pears ripen best at room temperature. Keep them in a fruit bowl or in a loosely closed paper sack and check for ripeness daily by pressing gently near the stem with your thumb. If the flesh yields, the pear is ready to eat."
Note that the entire pear isn't supposed to get soft - just the part at the stem. Pears are supposed to be crisp.
If you eat Asian pears (they have a more round shape), they are ready to eat the moment you purchase them, because they ripen on the tree. They won't be soft - they are supposed to be crisp.
if you want them to ripen do not refrigerate them.
maybe you should start but the pears that are starting to go soft when you buy then that way you don't have to throw them away and waste your money
Apparently Whole Foods doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.
You want a soft pear and the reason that you do is that almost any soft fruit is going to be a maximally flavorful fruit. A part of the softening process's is the starch to sugar conversions and the releasing of aromatics-which you will smell
So if I'm picking out fruit for a fresh pear mousse or a fresh pear clafouti I want to be able to smell it from five feet away. I want the fruit to say"eat me " to me so that it says the same thing to the person I serve that mousse or clafouti to. I don't want that person saying what is this ? I want them saying this is a pear
To ripen paper bags do work
Try to buy them ripe if you can and if at all possible bargain with your fruit guy for a lower price
If they're D'Anjou pears they never really get soft. They are naturally a firm pear. They are DELICIOUS tho and you should still eat them. Don't throw them away.