• We welcome content that is not political, divisive, or offensive. If we feel your content leans this way or has the potential to, it may be removed at any time. A hot pepper forum is not the place for such content. Thank you for respecting the community!

Doughnut Peach.

Shorerider

Shorerider

Staff Member
Moderator
eXtreme
While walking past a fruit and vegetable store I came across these unusual "Doughnut Peaches" I have never seen before. 
20160109_164242.jpg

 
20160109_164251_1.jpg

 
20160109_164258.jpg

 
They were AU$19.95 per kg, compared to a normal white fleshed peach at AU$3-5 per kg. A novelty fruit that I couldn't justify the ridiculously inflated price to buy any.
 
If they taste like doughnuts, well then, that's another story. 
 
 
SR.
 
We've had them at the local markets in season for years. They are good, but I wouldn't pay $20/k for them. Hopefully some local orchardists will buy some and start growing them at a more reasonable price.

Oh, and they taste like peaches...
 
I tried 2 of those last peach season (about $1 each!) when I saw them at the local farmers market. I thought they were pretty good. (have to be at the perfect ripeness though! One of my pet peeves are people eating unripe fruit and not getting the full incredible experience, or even 'not liking' it... papaya is a good example. My father ALWAYS ate unripe/almost tasteless pears until I got him to eat one where the fragrance would fill the room- changed his world forever! Lol.) These peaches to me had a more mild flavor (not as mild as white peaches), but something about them tasted like they were actually already made into a jelly/jam. Hard to describe... or kind of like how my grandmother used to prepare peaches and freeze them (never figured out what she did, but it changed the flavor). The texture was a bit more creamy as opposed to juicy I would say. Glad I sampled them.
 
Not worth the money though, not at least until they are grown more and the price drops- a 'novelty' item for sure!! I am certainly a bit spoiled as far as peaches (in the US) comes. South Carolina and Georgia peaches by the truckloads when in season is something to be envied by those not fortunate enough to enjoy the local bounty. If your unfamiliar with the Gaffney, SC water tower- just Google Images it!  :party:
 
Problem is most people dont know what "ripe" fruit tastes like since they are picked before their ripe and don't get to their full potential. I remember going to Cyprus in the early 80's and the place I stayed had what looked like grapefruit Trees/Bushes, eight 8 of them, were great, took one home and ate it a week later and found out they were actually oranges (had it hidden away in my luggage and wrapped in my clothes), Sugar sweet and the best orange I ever had.
 
Peaches are rarely shipped ripe due to bruising you can pretty much only get a real peach in Georgia. They do not ripen off the tree well at all, they turn cottony or mushy, that's not ripening.
 
Some fruits I like unripe, I like bananas yellow with faint green along the spines, and NO brown spots, not even speckles.
 
I love Anjou pears crisp and juicy, ripe pears, too mealy.
 
The Hot Pepper said:
Peaches are rarely shipped ripe due to bruising you can pretty much only get a real peach in Georgia or inland Washington state. They do not ripen off the tree well at all, they turn cottony or mushy, that's not ripening.
 
Some fruits I like unripe, I like bananas yellow with faint green along the spines, and NO brown spots, not even speckles.
 
I love Anjou pears crisp and juicy, ripe pears, too mealy.
Click to expand...
FIFY~ ;)
 
We have tons of stone fruit orchards in north central washington.  I'll have to dig through old old old pictures to see if I can find a picture of the Kid about 18 months old, in a high chair, holding a peach in the crook of his elbow and face-mawing that thing!  From our tree...
 
 
Ripe from the tree juicy peach dripping down the forearms........Oh YEA baby!
 
 
 
But to get back to the OP, I haven't had a doughnut peach reach that level of deliciousness.  They are good, a novelty, fun...but I wouldn't want to can quarts of 'em.
 
I like my fruit ripe, including bananas without any green on them (sorry Boss) and just as they are starting to get the brown spots on them. Like other fruit, they're sweeter, and more flavourful once they are ripe.

One of my pet hates are the ridiculously early season stone fruits possibly treated with Ethylene gas use to ripen early season fruit, they taste terrible compared to an in season "tree ripened" fruit. I'll usually hold off buying snone fruit for a month once they start appearing.

Just like peppers, these days there is nothing better than fruit from your own garden.


SR.
 
Lol it's because it looks like a donut and adults eat donuts prob more than kids.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top