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Curmudgeoness

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4. At first, I thought that said "pickled" pears.

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Sat Sep 8, 2012, 01:12 PM

Sep 2012

Which is a great idea too. I will agree with the suggestion of using apples to ripen pears, or any fruit. Fruit produces the gas ethylene that causes the ripening...and apples produce a lot of it. If you want all the pears to ripen at once, use the method suggested above. If you want to ripen just a few at a time, just put them in a bowl with an apple and that should do it. Easy peasy.

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Picked pears. Now what? [View all] Robb Sep 2012 OP

Pears are tricky - they actually need to be picked green, then slowly ripened on the shelf. NRaleighLiberal Sep 2012 #1

use apples to ripen the pears Viva_La_Revolution Sep 2012 #2

I have a very prolific pear tree idahoblue Sep 2012 #3

At first, I thought that said "pickled" pears. Curmudgeoness Sep 2012 #4

Sounds like time to pull out the canner!!! HopeHoops Sep 2012 #5

my dad used to wrap them in newspaper ginnyinWI Sep 2012 #6