OK genuinely feel silly asking, but should nectarines be kept in fridge?

[handlemecarefully]

Yes it's outlandish that I don't know, but have only eaten peaches and nectarines once or twice as a child - when I concluded I didn't like them.

So decided to buy them from supermarket today to give them another try (only 20 or so years later - see there is hope for mothers of food refusing children- their tastebuds may change later

So fridge or cupboard?

cupboard definitely.

i keep all fruit in the fridge in the summer to prolong its life

but then i also tend to buy ready ripe stuff

not sure other fruit would ever ripen there

I fridge mine if I dont think I will eat them within a day or two. They keep for eons in the fridge.

But, when I do want to eat one, I take it out of the fridge an hour at least, beforehand.

Not if yoiu want them to ripen. Besides, they taste better at room temp or slightly cooler.

I generally keep 4 or so in the fruit bowl to ripen, the rest in the fridge, bringing them out as the others are eaten. hOtherwise they all ripen at once and are wasted as not all get eaten at once.

I put them in the fruit bowl.

Then your children can munch on them as they wander past.

Supposed to be fridge, but mine never seem to actually ripen, so I take them out, and they go off within minutes .

I vote for half in the fridge, half in the cupboard. Can't go wrong then .

Thanks - I am going for the fridge option since they came as a pre-packed 4 pack, and will take one out an hour or two prior to eating.

most of the ones sold in supermarkets are rock hard - ripen them up for a few days on teh windowsill - then when they give a bit they are ripe - either eat or stick in the fridge then.

if you azre like me - if you put them in the cupboard you will find them a week later in a rotting heap .....

I keep in fruit bowl but read at the weekend that Nigel Slater thinks that peaches and nectarines are better eaten straight from the fridge, apricots better at room temp.