Fresh peaches are wonderful raw or cooked into peach pie, crumble, or upside-down cake.
They're great in salads and pizza toppings! Peaches have unlimited possibilities, so learn how to keep them to enjoy their sweet, tart flavor.
How to Store Ripe Peaches Ripe peaches should be eaten immediately. Due to their fragile skin, peaches bruise easily after picking.
Perfect, luscious peaches last less than a week on the counter. Keep ripe peaches in the fridge if you have too many.
Cold air slows ripening and dehydrates them, rendering them wrinkled after a few days.
Storage of Unripe Peaches Very firm, unripe peaches should be stored unwashed and stem-side down at room temperature.
Keep them in one layer to minimize bruising. Put hard peaches in a paper bag on your countertop to speed up ripening.