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DoctorSteve
06-09-2010, 12:33 AM
I have a question for all you out there. I keep reading that cavendish bananas are mealy. I don't feel that way but I eat mine when they are just past green, to half green half yellow. I use a squeeze test to determine if it is ready so the color can very. If they have any brown on them I do not like them they are to sweet and I don't like the texture. That might be the texture everyone is referring too. At the stage I eat them they are slightly firm smoother in texture ( I think) and no green taste (you know what I mean).
So I was wondering how some of the other bananas, especially the goldfinger, compare to this because I don't eat cavendish bananas the way everyone else does. I will try anything I am just trying to figure out which ones to get next.
sunfish
06-09-2010, 08:09 AM
I've tasted
Pisang klotec
Goldfinger
ice cream
namwah
Pisang Klotec being my favorite then Goldfinger and so on.
Bananaman88
06-09-2010, 11:11 AM
Steve, I'm the same as you...I can't stand the typical Cavendish variety once they start getting the little brown spots on them. Hate the taste and the texture. I eat them as with still a bit of green on them to pure yellow peel. I do think that when folks say they are mealy that they are referring to when you and I no longer like them. By contrast, when I eat my 'Orinoco' fruits, they must be slightly squishy and have a few brown spots to be platable (at least to me) and they taste great. Every banana fruit (and banana eater) is different.
DoctorSteve
06-09-2010, 09:10 PM
Thanks that helps. I have read many places saying this or that banana is more custard like than the cavendish and the cavendish is mealy. I am hoping that when they say custard like they are meaning smoother. I am a foody and when I see that description I am thinking that is sounds real soft. Maybe they mean more like ganache, now that sounds like a good texture for a banana to me.
I will try as many as I can I am just trying to see where to go next with my banana obsession. I have tried saba bananas from the store. I do not like them very much. I am betting they are much better grown at home. Another I just love is a fat banana from Hawaii that has a slight pink hue. It is hua moa I think.
I am eating a bunch from my plant which is a Mysore and they need to be almost over ripe to be good in my opinon. I actually won't even hand them out to people until they are very ripe because people eat them and then get turned off by the tartness. It tast like a strawberry that isn't ripe yet if you eat them too early. If you wait I think they tast like a strawberry banana smoothie. If I wait until they are very very ripe they the tartness is overtaken by the sweet. I also know some people like them tart and some prefer a sweeter so I guess some taste is gonna differ too. The mysores have an incredible shelf life so I can just let them sit around and know they are just getting sweeter.
DoctorSteve
06-10-2010, 09:33 AM
if it tastes like a strawberry banana smoothie I need to get one. BLAST, so many bananas to eat and grow.
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