/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15016325
Thats why you freeze them or eat them immediately

>>15016325
Yes, and?

on a second though why the fuck are they so expensive?

I love how anusy raspberries are

>>15016346
Just wait for them to be on sale. I've seen 1 lb things of blueberries be 2 or 3 for 1. Not a bad deal at all.

>>15016346
You're buying them out of season so they're imported

>>15016373
they did say from chile.

>>15016325
They have to be imported out from peru. What did you expect? They also taste like shit out of season, being grown in some shitshow country.

>>15016325
>he buys out of season berries at grocery stores
Have you never heard of food milage? Don't be surprised shit gets moldy when you're buying days or weeks old out of season artificially ripened trash.

>>15016341
I love eating frozen berries. It's almost like eating a bite sized popsicle.

>>15016325
>be Canadian
>pint of blueberries costs $7
Fucking hate this country, send rakes.

>>15016494
What's funny is a lot of the blueberries I buy are actually grown in fucking Canada.

>>15016494

>measuring fruit in pints.

You're getting ripped off. Why on earth would you measure fruit in 'pints'? It's not a liquid. If that is a 'pint' tub then you are literally paying for empty air space as well.

>>15016494
*laughs in Bluenoser*

>>15016607
They're still priced by weight, but they're distributed in standard 1pt baskets

>>15016494
They grow wild in Newfoundland.
I spent a summer with my grandparents when I was 18 and would go out picking blueberries with my grandpa and would come back with a gallon bucket full of them, grandma would make it into pies and shit.

Blackberries produce lots of fruit and are hardy plants. Grow your own and you'll have enough blackberries to get sick of them. If you want to prolong their shelf life, soak them in a lemon juice+water mixture for 30 mins before drying them and putting them in the fridge. You can also make your own jam, which is super easy because blackberries have a lot of natural pectin. Our blackberry shrub got so big we had to chop down sections of it.

>>15016494
It’s like $5 in the US. So, not so bad considering your other food pricing

Just buy more you poorfag they are only $1

>>15016325
My mom started soaking strawberries in a water and vinegar mixture after buying them to kill off potential mold, made them last a week or more longer on average

>>15017037
>try to pick blackberries outside
>get lyme disease
fuck my life

>>15017037
>If you want to prolong their shelf life, soak them in a lemon juice+water mixture for 30 mins before drying them and putting them in the fridge.
I've rinsed berries in plain distilled vinegar, then water. Let them dry and then refrigerated them and they lasted over a week.

>>15017240
THATS A LOW PRICE!

>price of strawberries goes up 3 bucks a package because the seasons over
>stuck eating apples until it's summer again
At least apples have a really long shelf life

>>15017435
what are preserves
what is a freezer

>>15017240
bruh they're $4-$5 where I'm at for a small as amount

>>15017440
I still have jam and preserves and I dont like frozen fruit. I meant fresh, whole strawberries.

>>15016645
the bonus about picking blueberries in NFLD are the ticks you can also pick up

I dont really eat fruit, its way too expensive

>>15017240
>buying berries for 1.28 each
Canadians

>>15016347
“anisey” tard
doesnt taste like fuckin anuses

>>15017435
saving that frog I hope thats okay

>>15016347
anusy lol

>>15016325
blackberries > blueberries > raspberries >>> strawberries

fuck bros, I love these so much. I've had to resort to buying frozen now and it's just not as good T_T

>>15016325
>>15016346
this is why you buy the frozen berries from costco

>>15016325
Are you implying they would last more than a day before I eat them? Lol

>>15017037
>mfw watching people pick these along the road side
>not to mention the shit ton of contaminants you are getting from road run off, but the shit they spray along the roadsides

>>15018581
Yeah, people forgett that they should never "pick" wild stuff form inner cities or anywhere along roads. Even in germany, where we actually try to reduce pesticides and roa emissions, there was a study done one people having gardens alongside train tracks or streets growing berries, salats and other stuff. They have been controlled for heavy metalls and where around 20times as polluted as the max level allowable to be sold.

A wild harvest should only be done in actual nature or country side. You shouldn't even grow herbs if you're an inner city fag.

>>15016325
take the diy pill and grow them yourself. you're gonna get more of the freshest berries than you can eat if you aren't retarded

>>15016341
>>15018316
>frozen barrys

>>15018581
That’s why u fuckin wash

>>15019555
Washing is useless. Heavy metall and pesticides don't just sit atop of those fruits, they leech inside, from the soil and from the air. Plus even if they would sit atop, you shouldn't be able to wash them off just by letting them sit in water. You would need a tensi and rubbing with a brush. At that point you wont have anything left from those street fruits.

The same goes for commercial apples. Washing them is useless, the waxing which is applied for longer self live is placed on top of the pesticides and you cant wash it of by pure water and rubbing.

It's only a meme for people to feel better about eating toxic trash.

>>15017037
I'll eat them out on walks, but definitely not a good idea to eat the ones near traffic. Growing your own blackberries is too much work, and painful if you're not careful.