The old method is just wait for it to fall, which IMO is the best. It will fall when its ripe enough to eat, or maybe another 1 to 2 days depending on the variety.
The fruit will not splatter as it fallz because the shell is hard. Sometimes a small crevice opens from the impact, making it easier to open the fruit later.
They do this because they are harvesting it early before ripe, and to make sure the fruit never touch the ground. Likely because they want to export the fruit and China being the biggest durian importer usually put those requirements to its exporters.
The method to open these things is to literally whack the shell with a hard object or slam it down in a rock. Yeah, if doesn't platter, but the shell cracks, exposing the fruit.
I'm all for not propagating mistakes and misinformation, but you just said this process is to avoid the fruit touching the ground yet the catchers are literally placing the fruit on the ground.
I have no actual knowledge on this topic but it would seem logical that the point of catching is to prevent shell damage that would cause it to spoil before reaching its final destination.
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u/lenyek_penyek 16h ago
Nothing crazy. And it was never over generations.
The old method is just wait for it to fall, which IMO is the best. It will fall when its ripe enough to eat, or maybe another 1 to 2 days depending on the variety.
The fruit will not splatter as it fallz because the shell is hard. Sometimes a small crevice opens from the impact, making it easier to open the fruit later.
They do this because they are harvesting it early before ripe, and to make sure the fruit never touch the ground. Likely because they want to export the fruit and China being the biggest durian importer usually put those requirements to its exporters.
Stop circulating wrong facts.