How do you like your bananas?

General Fruit Growing
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I saw someone else reference the fact that they like to eat green bananas in another thread. Me too! I dont like them bright green, but if the peel shows even the slightest bit of brown I know they are destined for banana bread. How do you like your bananas?:yum:

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Slightly green. I peel them and put them in the freezer if they are fully ripe.

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You fooled me! I thought I was going to see a pic you holding up a stalk of freshly harvested bananas. :blush:

I like a range of bananas. For out of hand eating, I like them at all stages beyond green and before the inside has turned brown. Plantain types I like cooked, especially dessert style with butter and brown sugar or drizzled with honey.

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Some green on the shoulders…some yellow. Too yellow and they turn brown and black and they go to the compost Gods or into the freezer for smoothies.

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I thought I was the only one! They should be mostly yellow, with a hint of green, and still firm. Once brown shows up, it’s all downhill.

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Solid yellow with a hint of green on the stem. Once they start getting brown spots they are banana bread. I hate over ripe banana flavor.

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Actually, I’m hoping that my best banana is yet to come. What I really hope to experience is a harvest of my own homegrown bananas, preferably from the Apple, Ice Cream, or Raj Puri plants.

Maybe next year that will happen. :banana:

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So let’s see: we have Winter Banana apple tree which makes apples that taste like bananas, and also a banana called Apple which presumably does the opposite. Guess it just goes to show, no one is ever satisfied :wink:

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I was wondering if someone was going to pick up on that! :smile:

Actually, apple bananas are small bananas that taste, to me, more bananaey than grocery store bananas, and they have a pleasing texture.

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I have to go against the grain. I like mine yellow with brown freckles! Like mine sweet and ripe.

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