/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.16565202]

>see neighbors apple trees with piles of them just rotting on the ground

why plant them if you're not gonna utilize them?

[Anonymous No.16565206]

>>16565202
kys weebfaggot pedophile

[Anonymous No.16565207]

maybe they are for the birds?

[Anonymous No.16565217]

>>16565202
u jelly?

yeah u jelly

[Anonymous No.16565220]

they bought the house with the trees already there, just be nice to them then ask them to pick some

[Anonymous No.16565306]

>i can't process that many fucking apples so I gave up, also fuck yellow jackets
t. my manager complaining about his apple tree earlier today

[Anonymous No.16565312]

>>16565202
Most apples and fruit from trees get pecked at non-stop by birds before they're ripe
t. have a peach and apple tree

[Anonymous No.16565323]

>>16565206
based

[Anonymous No.16565331]

>>16565202
Tell them you will make cider with the apples and split it with them once it's done

[Anonymous No.16565461]

>>16565331
Yeah just tell them but don't actually do it and keep all the apples. They don't deserve them.

[Anonymous No.16565513]

>>16565461
This would only work for one year. Just make good cider and you'll have apples and cider for many years!

[Anonymous No.16565522]

>>16565331
Don't promise them anything. Just ask if you can pick some. They might just tell you to take all of them. If they're nice about it, you can give them something later on as a thank you gesture.

[Anonymous No.16565523]

>>16565202
90% of fruit trees I see, none of the fruit is edible. As has been mentioned... birds, parasites, whatever. Unless you're actively tending to them, I don't think fruit trees are very worthwhile. But i also live in the desert.

[Anonymous No.16565541]

>>16565312
Same. Wildlife generally gets to my peach tree before I have the chance to harvest.
Used to sit in my yard and take potshots at squirrels with my pellet gun so they'd fuck off but got a new job and don't have the time.
>>16565202
As for OP, just ask them for some you sperg. When I do get a decent harvest I gladly give them away.

[Anonymous No.16565600]

>>16565306
Does he live next door to a creepy weirdo?

[Anonymous No.16565709]

>>16565217
>making the thread comfy

[Anonymous No.16565732]

>>16565323
last time this was posted janny cleaned it up, did it hit too close to home or something

[Anonymous No.16565745]

>buy house
>like 1/3 of a mature apple tree growing over the garden
>gotta keep picking the fallen apples from "june drop"
>harvest in September time
>fucking loads. stewing them down for apple pie filling and filling the freezer
>bottom shelf of freezer full of apple stew

that was last year. I still got like 3kg+ of stew to use, and it's nearly time to harvest again.

need to make like a weekly apple pie to keep up. can't keep giving pies to my friends as they'll get sick of me

[Anonymous No.16565781]

>>16565745
also, I hope last year was just a mast year resulting in lots of apples

[Anonymous No.16565785]

>>16565202
Windfalls happem even if you harvest regularly.

[Anonymous No.16565829]

Just pick the apple and fuckin biff them in random directions and listen to see if you smash anything haha

[Anonymous No.16565927]

>>16565829
>not keeping a stash of half rotted apples in your car to chuck at people who piss you off

[Anonymous No.16565968]

>>16565927
I just throw a handful of nickels from the ashtray

[Anonymous No.16566032]

>>16565745
Buy a food dehydrator or start brewing cider.

[Anonymous No.16566045]

>>16565323
>>16565206
no

[Anonymous No.16566048]

You just cut out the buggy shit if you're going to cook it or can it. Make some apple butter.
Same with stone fruit and pears. Just cut out the bad parts, remove the skin and can them.

[Anonymous No.16566281]

>>16565202
ask them nicely if you could take some from the tree retard

[Anonymous No.16566289]

you could be neighborly and go talk to them about Le situation. Who knows, maybe they'll offer you the opportunity to pick them if you leave and dont return until next year. That's the best you could hope for given how insane it is that you've noticed something mundane in your neighborhood and decided to make a full post about it. Thread ain't that comfy bro, sorry.

[Anonymous No.16566419]

>>16565206
>weebfaggot pedophile

[Anonymous No.16567614]

>>16565206
>visits weeaboo pedophile website
>wtf why are there weeaboo pedos here

[Anonymous No.16567763]

they naturally ferment, birds eat them and get drunk, you catch the birds and eat those.

[Anonymous No.16567790]

>>16565206
>pedo in denial

[Anonymous No.16568054]

>>16565206
anime website

[Anonymous No.16568864]

>>16565206
weebfaggot pedophile website

[Anonymous No.16568883]

>>16565732
jannies are literal trannies that ban you for saying nigger on 4chan of all places

[Anonymous No.16568888]

>>16565206
Based

[Anonymous No.16568922]

>>16565202
Apple blossoms are pretty nice to look at.

[Anonymous No.16568937]

90% of the apples on our trees are unusable thanks to the wasps

[Anonymous No.16568983]

>>16565202
I have lik 3 avocado trees and you will always see avocados rotting on the ground because squirrels and birds are fucking little shits who bite them once and dump them on the ground, then move to the next one.

[Anonymous No.16569073]

>>16565206
fpbp

[Anonymous No.16569095]

>>16565202
Knock on their door and ask if you can pick the apples. Offer to pick a bagfull for them as payment.
I have got so much free produce over the years by doing this. It's not like I can't afford to just buy my fruit and veggies but like you I don't like seeing good food being wasted.

>>16565312
The starlings cleaned out my cherries the day before I was going to pick them. Ah well.

[Anonymous No.16569107]

>>16565202
my neighbors do this too. I've though about snagging some at night, but they have an electric fence
>>16565206
based

[Anonymous No.16569229]

lmao op is a crybaby tattle bitch LOL

[Anonymous No.16569258]

>>16568883
nice fantasy there nigger
how else are you oppressed you faggot

[Anonymous No.16569440]

>>16565312
>>16565541
always pick as soon as the tree starts bearing fruit, and you have to do it as soon as it starts bearing fruit in its life. Animals unironically don't notice until they're ripe, and if you pick all ripe ones as soon as they are ripe, then they never notice. They'll remember if they ever get even a nibble of it.

[Anonymous No.16569443]

>>16565745
sell them or give them away to anybody at all

[Anonymous No.16569472]

>>16565220
>just be nice to them then ask them to pick som
T H I S
but, like, seriously

[Anonymous No.16569484]

Maybe the apples just taste bad

Fuck all of you and this shitty gay life

[Anonymous No.16569505]

[Anonymous No.16569543]

>>16565745
You're "the weird apple guy"

[Anonymous No.16569566]

We supply just about our entire neighborhood with their years' cooking apple supply via an endlessly fruitful apple tree that stands right in the middle of everyone's houses. theyve all asked at different points, and we're always terribly happy they will get used and enjoyed, because we could never use even a tiny fraction of the amount this tree produces. some come many times a day with deep buckets and a ladder, some like the riper windfalls for pastries pies and applesauce, some are families out walking with little kids, and the parents let the kids each pick a fruit to snack as they go, snd use the tree to teach them life life lessons, we've been gifted endless exquisite cookies, sauces, beautiful breads sweets and pies from elderly couples who had an extremely successful artisan business when they were you ger selling such, etc.
ask op and ye shall probably receive. we loved the gifts but we equally loved the pleasure and great use everyone got from the apples which otherwise would have just had to have been tossed into our ditch to prevent wasps moving in,

[Anonymous No.16569568]

I harvest a fey dozen bushels from around my town. No one picks there apples. I make sauce, dried apples, feed them to my birds. I bought a cider press this year so Ill be making lots of cider. Or lots of applejack.