By RIPE, checked against a produce manager's cues. Published .
Press gently at the neck, just below the stem: a slight give there means ready, even if the body still feels firm. Pears ripen from the inside out, so a pear that is soft in the middle is usually already overripe.
What to check
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Feelcheck the neck, not the belly.
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Looksome varieties change color a little (Bartlett goes green to yellow), but many do not change at all.
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Pears are picked hard on purpose and ripen well at room temperature in roughly 3 to 6 days.
Common mistakesqueezing the middle. By the time the middle is soft, the core is often mealy.
Written by the team behind RIPE, a free app that reads a photo of the whole produce pile and rings the ripest ones. Every cue above is one you can check with your own hands, and it all works with no app at all.
Or just show us the one in your hand
Take a photo of a single piece, filling the frame, in decent light. Free, no signup, and it tells you what it cannot see.
You just read the cue for one piece. RIPE reads a photo of the entire display, draws numbered rings on the ones worth taking, and tells you why in the same plain words these guides use. Then it remembers what you brought home and nudges you before it turns.
It claims only what a camera can actually see. Every verdict ends by handing the last check back to your hands, which is the part these guides just taught you.
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