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great looking fruit, looks delicious! Would you say the skin is somewhat firm on the outside? The cempedak in OP is somewhat hard skin, sometimes the fruit will be fully ripe and the skin will feel rock hard... I notice there are soft skin and hard skin cempedaks
Cempedak is a bit like durian - what do you think it is? the smell? the taste? the more "creamy" texture than jackfruit? What makes something "durianish"?
what gives these awesome fruits (durian, marang, cempedak) there awesomeness is the odor... 90% of our 'flavors" are from our sense of smell... the odors wafting through our nose on the exhale... so cempedak and durian are very smelly and have a strong/unique flavor cause of this.this is what makes things "durianish" :0... kinda like the odorata mango (spelling?)
Quote from: roboto212 on January 31, 2013, 09:51:05 PMwhat gives these awesome fruits (durian, marang, cempedak) there awesomeness is the odor... 90% of our 'flavors" are from our sense of smell... the odors wafting through our nose on the exhale... so cempedak and durian are very smelly and have a strong/unique flavor cause of this.this is what makes things "durianish" :0... kinda like the odorata mango (spelling?)Well in most cases what you are saying is correct. But in the cases of durian and marang at least i would have to disagree. Some marangs smell like a petroleum distillery. Not at all a pleasant smell that would enhance the cuisine experience of most people. Also they don't taste at all what they smell like. Similarly with durians, they have a strong sulfurous smell, but certainly the fruit doesn't taste at all sulfurous. I think in the case of these fruits the strong smelling gases are to attract animals from afar, that will eat the fruit, and spread the seeds. The biological intent is not to make the eating experience more pleasant through continuous gassing, but to lure the seed spreaders in. Once they're in the fruit also delights with it's great taste...which ofcourse makes humans to want to cultivate and further reproduce the species.Sorry I don't think your analogy with wine is at all a good one.
They are in thailand in small numbers and considered a poor quality jack due to sloppy flesh.
Wow nice! I always thought that Jackfruit and Chempedak were the same species, I know thats not true now!
Quote from: bangkok on December 25, 2013, 10:13:37 AMQuote from: AnnonAddict on December 25, 2013, 10:08:47 AMWow nice! I always thought that Jackfruit and Chempedak were the same species, I know thats not true now!Nope, many people prefer chempedak over jackfruit and i eat jackfruit almost daily now, i like them so much. Also pedalai should be even better but that's the next one i have to find.I just learned that there are many different chempedaks as well so a whole new world is opening for me. I have 3 jackfruit-tree's now, a breadfruit and a chempedak and still want more.....i will make a nice multigrafted tree from all. Why nobody has that yet? I want to try Breadfruit, then Pedalai,then Lakoocha, then Kwai Muk, then Entawak, then Tamaran...
Quote from: AnnonAddict on December 25, 2013, 10:08:47 AMWow nice! I always thought that Jackfruit and Chempedak were the same species, I know thats not true now!Nope, many people prefer chempedak over jackfruit and i eat jackfruit almost daily now, i like them so much. Also pedalai should be even better but that's the next one i have to find.I just learned that there are many different chempedaks as well so a whole new world is opening for me. I have 3 jackfruit-tree's now, a breadfruit and a chempedak and still want more.....i will make a nice multigrafted tree from all. Why nobody has that yet?
Bangkok when I hit the numbered lakoocha pic it just comes up with the post image box. Lakoochas aren't bad and a bit like apricot in some.Chempadak are like a sloppy jack with a more creamy/banana-y quality in some.They vary so much that you can only generalise about the fruit of the species.
Bangkok, have you been to Cambodia? They have a lot of Chempedaks there, and they are dirt cheap.
Quote from: Mike T on December 25, 2013, 10:01:38 PMBangkok when I hit the numbered lakoocha pic it just comes up with the post image box. Lakoochas aren't bad and a bit like apricot in some.Chempadak are like a sloppy jack with a more creamy/banana-y quality in some.They vary so much that you can only generalise about the fruit of the species.I replaced that pic and now it works on my computer. But here is the original link: http://www.cropsforthefuture.org/tag/artocarpus-lakoocha/I will try chempedak somewhere outside thailand, i think i will like them. I have no idea why the Thai only sell jackfruits but they are great.
Quote from: bangkok on December 25, 2013, 10:36:41 PMQuote from: Mike T on December 25, 2013, 10:01:38 PMBangkok when I hit the numbered lakoocha pic it just comes up with the post image box. Lakoochas aren't bad and a bit like apricot in some.Chempadak are like a sloppy jack with a more creamy/banana-y quality in some.They vary so much that you can only generalise about the fruit of the species.I replaced that pic and now it works on my computer. But here is the original link: http://www.cropsforthefuture.org/tag/artocarpus-lakoocha/I will try chempedak somewhere outside thailand, i think i will like them. I have no idea why the Thai only sell jackfruits but they are great.There are chempadeks in southern Thailand, close to border with Malaysia.