Asian pears ripe
4 Oct Asian pears are ready to eat as soon as you buy them -- they're picked when they 're ripe. Unlike other types of pears, which you want to eat.
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You are going to hear lots of conflicting stories about Asian Pears over the next Asian Pears stop ripening the minute you pick them, and so have to be left on.
Unlike European pear varieties (such as Bartlett or Comice), Asian pears are ripe and ready to eat right after harvest. Asian pears also maintain their crisp.
Description:The fruit, though, has to be picked from the tree before it gets soft, as then it is overripe and can feel spongy. You end up seeing things like this in print: A young Asian pear tree will start producing between 5 and 15 pounds 2 to 7 kg of fruit after it is 3 years old. New plantings are being done to accommodate the market for these consumers. That being said, there are general characteristics that Asian Pears mostly share, and general ways in which they can be grouped. They are bigger than European pears:
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