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PEAR RIPENING 101
The pears you receive were carefully kept at the perfect cool temperature to develop their sugars for the sweetest and creamiest pears you’ve ever tasted.
Pears ripen best between 65 and 75°F. Put pears in a paper bag or an enclosed area with a banana or ripe apple to ripen them quicker.
Want to save your pears for later? Slow down their ripening and store them in the fridge.
Check the neck! Press your thumb on the stem-end of the pear. If it yields to pressure, it’s ready to eat.
Have a pear too overripe to eat? It can be just as tasty in a pear pie, smoothie, fruit salsa, or pear butter.
Get Creative with These Gourmet Recipes
Fun Facts About Pears
- Royal Riviera® Pears can only grow in a few places in the world
- Each of our Royal Riviera® Pears is picked by hand
- We harvest about 15,000 tons of pears each year
- We currently farm about 2000 acres of pears in the Rogue Valley
- Royal Riviera® Pears are a variety of Comice, which has been growing in Southern Oregon for more than 100 years
- During harvest season, our teams will pick over 8,000 pears per person
- Our largest orchard is about 350 acres
- Our pears rest in cold storage for at least 30 days after harvest in order to fully develop their sugars
- Royal Riviera® Cream of the Crop Pears are our largest variety, weighing in at around a pound a piece
- Pears are part of the rose family
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