"Ripen at home"... yeah, right!

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Why does this always mean "This fruit will go straight from rock-hard to mouldy without achieving softness or sweetness at any point" ?

Yes, Aldi peaches I'm looking at you.

Yep. They are a con.

Right?! Every single one of you! Waitrose, Tesco, Sainsbury's, M&S, Aldi... liars. And yet, summer after summer, I sidle on up to the fruit aisle with my frayed hope and debit card on the ready. I'm the fool who carries on half-believing that this time, the punnet of lies will actually ripen at home. Never happens.

I have found you bring them home, not ripe, day 2, not ripe, day 3 not ripe, day 4 hand goes through them rotten so at some point over night in day 3 they are probably perfect honestly I can never get it right

Yep. Never known any to ripen.

Same. Ripen to mould.

Struggling with an avocado from Aldi at the mo. It said refrigerate so it wouldn’t over ripen but bugger all was happening so I have put it in the fruit bowl. Rock hard! Think I’ll stick to “ Ripe & Ready”. I love avocado & it’s frustrating not being able to eat it.

Yep, I can never ripen anything at home.
Bananas are the worst. They stay green and go off green.

I think there are special breeds of fruit sold in supermarkets, that have been designed to go from 'hand grenade' to 'bluey-green unidentifiable lump' without passing any intermediate stages.

And it's always the nice fruit. Never the bloody gooseberries.

I find if I put peaches or nectarines on my window ledge in my south facing kitchen (so long as it's sunny outside) for 1-2 days them move them to my lounge which is north facing and cooler they actually ripen. I only discovered this this year after years of my fruit going from hard to mouldy, it's been a revelation.

This doesn't work with bananas though.

I bought a punnet of plums from Tesco. Ye gods!!!! They were so sour and hard. I should have stewed them for a crumble.

Never had a problem with banananahs though. Annoyingly, I have a curry recipe that calls for a very overripe brown banana and I never have any.