Every Week, Someone At Swimming World Will Wang On About Persimmons, So Being...

[lardhelmet]

the type of person I am I bought 3 in the supermarket for 99p. I've just cut one up and tried it and it's yucky. Am I supposed to do something else with it, like cook it as it appears to have the consistency of ear wax.

[gingejbee]

They need to be VERY ripe to be enjoyable...and I mean VERY ripe!

[Buenchico]

This shows what ripe persimmons should be like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK2g7ZRgpIU

[lardhelmet]

Oh ok gingejbee - thanks. The skins on these ones are tangerine colour. Is that ripe enough?

[lardhelmet]

Thanks Buenchico. Mine are much paler than that in the middle.

[gingejbee]

lard...should be ready to eat by Easter, then!

[lardhelmet]

Right, well stuff that, I'll have a pomegranate instead!

[atalanta]

I tried one once - tasted as if I'd been sucking pennies.

[lardhelmet]

I agree atalanta. It's obviously an acquired taste...

[ummmm]

Are they also known as sharon fruits?

[tiggerblue10]

I like them. I've got 4 ripening at the moment.

[lardhelmet]

How are you ripening them tiggerblue? On the windowsill?

[tiggerblue10]

No, they're just in the bag I got them in. They've been there a couple of days now. They should have softened up in the middle by now even though they feel hard on the outside.

[lardhelmet]

Thanks tiggerblue. I'll do the same thing then and while I'm waiting I shall head back to the pomegranates.

[ladyalex]

I tried one once and never again.felt as though someone had taken a pan scourer dipped in concentrated lemon juice to the inside of my mouth.
I don't think I can be bothered to buy them again and wait for them to ripen.

They are also called sharon fruit.

[woofgang]

Its got complicated. It used to be that persimmons were very tannic and needed to be very ripe indeed to be edible; then Israel marketed a sport that was sweet and edible from the word go, but got softer and juicier as it ripened. These were called sharon fruit. Now it seems that most persimmons are the sharon fruit type but you still get the occasional tannic one.