Why do strawberries seldom live up to their promise?
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Why do strawberries seldom live up to their promise?
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#3Article doesn't mention that strawberries actually grow in and stay most fresh in a mild heat.
> If you buy the strawberries and you leave them in your car, then you go put gas in it, if you open the door and your car smells like hot trash—the strawberries are probably really good.
In addition to other factors mentioned, refrigerating strawberries diminishes their flavor.
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#4Who the hell writes this crap?
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#5breeding Strwabs for size has reduced their flavour. I was just in the Dolomites eating tiny wild strawberries, and they were a fruit explosion.
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#6breeding Strwabs for size has reduced their flavour. I was just in the Dolomites eating tiny wild strawberries, and they were a fruit explosion.
Yep, tiny wild strawberries were like treasure during my childhood... No comparison!
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#7Jose Andres, a well-known chef, recommends peeling strawberries!
https://www.tapasmagazine.es/en/the-reason-why-jose-andres-r...
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#8This is true for almost all modern fruit and vegetables. The varieties you can buy in most supermarkets have been selected for yield, hardiness in the field, and ability to be transported. Unless the farmer is niche, flavor doesn't even come into play as a factor.
Add to that fact that transportation now includes going halfway across the world because consumers want the fruit available all year long, and that makes things even more complicated.
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#9Given the writer lives in Britain she would do well to forget about farmed berries and forage for wild blackberries instead. Urban, suburban, rural, they're everywhere.
They're bang in season at the moment and my wife and I are getting half a kilo (a pound) in about 40 mins of lazy picking in the mornings before work. They are absolutely delicious and freeze well for cakes, crumbles and such in the winter.
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#10It depends where you live. I'm in the Bay Area and strawberries are definitely not disappointing. In fact for several months of the year they are like food out of the Garden of Eden. You can recognize when they are in season by the uniform deep, crimson color of all the berries in the batch. And the price: cheap strawberries means there are a lot of them.
We usually get Tomatero Farms strawberries. Driscolls is OK but better for raspberries in my opinion. In season they all come from farms in locations like Monterey County, which is not far away. You have to eat them quickly, though, or they go bad.