DoctorSteve

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

I've tasted

Pisang klotec
Goldfinger
ice cream
namwah

Pisang Klotec being my favorite then Goldfinger and so on.

Bananaman88

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

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.

jen

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

if it tastes like a strawberry banana smoothie I need to get one. BLAST, so many bananas to eat and grow.