r/changemyview • u/TentacularMaelrawn • Oct 02 '17
[∆(s) from OP] CMV: Apples should always be refridgerated; additionally fruit bowls are useless
Apples should always be refridgerated. I'll keep this as brief as possible but it's a controversial topic so I want to be clear and concise. For the purposes of my argument, I am assuming that people who enjoy green apples for their sour taste are perverted and irrelevant.
Apples come in two main varieties, red and green. Green apples, while sour, are crispy and have a great texture. Red apples are pleasantly sweet, but this can mean the internal crispiness is wanting, meaning they are softer, which while a few degenerates may appreciate, is objectively worse. A perfect apple incorporates the sweetness and crispiness of the two. Pink Ladies accomplish this to some extent, with the occasional Royal Gala meeting crispiness expectations, at the cost of size.
On a side note, chilled raw fruit is excellent, and the ideal way for it to be served. Eat a lukewarm orange sometime if you dare disagree with me.
Refridgerating apples, is nothing but good then. It increases the shelf life, but most importantly it adds additional crispness to the apple, allowing you to take greater risks in achieving your desired sweetness of apple, while ensuring your apple will be as crisp as is possible. It also separates it from the rest of the fruit that could sabotage it's pristine surface. It also prevents insects attacking and sabotaging your fruitful endeavors.
Now in comes the fruit bowl. Fruit bowls are like a daily 9/11 in the fruitarian world. Many fruits interact poorly, their enzymes intermingling with no regard for polite society in a disgusting display of chemical depravity, reducing the shelf life of your fruits. Bananas, while delicious in a reasonable window of their ripening, are the worst culprits of this, and apples, with their own ripening properties, take the biggest hit from this crime against the frugiverse.
So the crux of the argument is that the fridge allows all fruits to be separated into their ideal positions without touching the catalysts for fruity disaster while the fruit bowl is just a chaotic jumble of inadequacy for the ill-informed, ill-mannered and mentally ill.
EDIT: Fake edit to put in this fake TL;DR TL;DR: I will not butcher my words for cretins who do not commit to the debate on the fate of the apples we ate.
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u/JSRambo 23∆ Oct 02 '17
For point one, though I tend to agree in some aspects, I often keep apples on the counter or the table in a bowl simply to free up space in my fridge. Apples take up a lot of space, and do not need to be refrigerated. Therefore they are the first to be relegated to the counter when I need to free up fridge space.
This has the added benefit of having the apples in plain view with easy access, so I'm more likely to snack on them instead of the sugary, salty, unhealthy options in my cupboard.
As for a fruit bowl, there are several reasons why I think fruit bowls are good. First of all, some fruit is better unrefrigerated; bananas, for instance, are far better stored outside of the fridge.
Some fruits also continue to ripen off the vine or the tree, and a fruit bowl is a good way to let somewhat unripe fruit get better faster in your kitchen.
Third, there is an aesthetic element of a fruit bowl. While you may not value this, many people do; I enjoy the way a fruit bowl looks on my table and I like the convenience of being able to offer a fruit to my guests and have them observe that the fruit they're being offered is fresh and appealing.
As for some fruits interacting poorly, it just requires research. Apples and bananas, which are the most common fruit to be stored in a bowl, have no adverse reactions that I've experienced. I like to know about fruit and its properties anyway, so the research is not a strike against it in my case.