Durian shell has a lot of sharp convex, and the shell is thick, in order to facilitate storage for a long time, some people will buy raw durian, although raw durian can also be eaten, but the taste is very bad, so how to ripen Durian? What are the skills of ripening Durian?
1. Fruit ripening
People who like to eat fruits know that many fruits don't taste very good when they are not ripe. Some fruits will mature very slowly even if you put them for a few days. However, when they are put together with other fruits, the ripening process will be accelerated, especially when they are put on the edge of some ripe fruits. These mature fruits will volatilize some ether, which has a strong ripening effect This method can also be used without mature durian.
Common fruits that can ripen other fruits are: bananas, apples, persimmons, kiwifruit, etc., including durian itself. It is also a good method to ripen durian with ripe durian.
2. Microwave oven ripening
If the surface flesh of durian is mature after breaking open, but the flesh inside is not very ripe. This kind of durian can be eaten, and the taste is breast-feeding and delicious. However, it can be sealed with fresh-keeping film, heated in the microwave oven for a few minutes, and the medium and small fire can be used. This method can accelerate the ripening of durian, but it has no significant effect on the taste of durian.
3. Ripening in the sun
Durian itself has a certain breathing effect. This kind of fruit will accelerate the weak respiration when exposed to the sun. Proper sun exposure can promote the maturation of durian. The durian bought will crack itself after two days on the balcony. At this time, there is no need to dry the flesh inside, which will affect the taste of durian.
4. Natural maturity
Durian, like bananas, apples and other fruits, is a kind of fruit with active respiration. After the durian is broken, the durian meat is sealed with preservative film and placed in the refrigerator or in a cool place. Generally, the durian can be fully matured in two days. If the durian is not broken, it still depends on the maturity of the durian. Some can mature in a few days, and some are too raw, Some special means, such as proper heating, are needed to help it mature.
5. How to choose Durian
Although durian can ripen, but the durian is not as good as its own mature durian taste, so the selection of durian is the key, the following several specific selection methods of durian.
1. Pinch the spines: there are many spines on the shell of durian. Press the two spines together with your fingers. If you can press them together easily, it shows that durian has excellent maturity, is suitable for eating and has excellent taste. If it can't be pinched, it is not ripe durian.
2. Smell: friends who like to eat durian are familiar with the flavor of durian. When they smell the durian, they will know the maturity of durian. The mature durian has strong fragrance and milk fragrance, while the unripe durian often has a kind of grass flavor, and another one with alcohol flavor is rotten durian.
3. Look at the size: Fruit lovers must know that the size of the fruit is also an important indicator of fruit maturity. Durian and watermelon are often the same, the maturity of large durian is better, and the split durian is not necessarily mature durian, you should know that durian can be cut.
How to select mature Durian
1. Shape: to choose long shape, tail is pointed.
Choose a big one, which looks like a wolf's tooth stick, and has a stream of small hills and high tripods. The more the hills are, the more meat they have, and the more water they have.
2. Number of Petals: the more the better, the more meat.
3. Color: yellowish, cracked, ripe.
4. Crack: Durian must look at the crack, thin skin means that durian meat, shell is a little open is cooked, sweet and delicious, but the shell can not be too long, over cooked is rotten.
Durian is not necessarily open mouth is good, now many supermarkets are raw durian mouth, not naturally cooked crack, also not delicious.
5. Smell: smell enough fragrance, enough smell. Naturally ripe durian, even if there is no crack, will have a strong but not stimulating, heavy
6. Soft hardness: pinch the two adjacent thorns with your hand, it's easy to get close to each other.