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[Luau Time]

Thanks for your input hotzcatz

[terracore]

I wouldn't bother growing papayas unless its for personal consumption. The papaya places will sell people a "tote" (about 800 pounds) for ten dollars. Those are the ones you see at the farmer's markets 4/5/6 for a dollar or whatever. Some people feed them to livestock. They are all the papayas that were rejected for being cosmetically or size challenged. Also they have to run papayas through the sterilization machines to prime or calibrate them and those can't be exported and wind up in the $10 reject pile.

[hotzcatz]

How do you move 800 pounds of papayas? Yeech! Wonder why they aren't processed into, hmm, what can papaya be processed into? Marmalade? Papaya pickles? Papaya kim chee?

[whtviper1]

Originally Posted by terracore

The papaya places will sell people a "tote" (about 800 pounds) for ten dollars.

Given how much is grown in places like India - Papaya in Hawaii will eventually have the same fate as sugar cane and pineapple.

[Rain Monkey]

Originally Posted by hotzcatz

How do you move 800 pounds of papayas? Yeech! Wonder why they aren't processed into, hmm, what can papaya be processed into? Marmalade? Papaya pickles? Papaya kim chee?

Margaritas. And in these trying, difficult times, having a papaya margarita in each hand in order to minimize hand to face contact is an important consideration.

[terracore]

Originally Posted by hotzcatz

How do you move 800 pounds of papayas? Yeech! Wonder why they aren't processed into, hmm, what can papaya be processed into? Marmalade? Papaya pickles? Papaya kim chee?

They'll dump it into the back of your pickup truck for you. A neighbor used to get/share them and we would feed them to our chickens.

There is a guy in Hawaiian Acres who presses the oil out of mac nuts and uses it for bio diesel. He sells (or sold, it was a few years ago we got some) the crushed nuts for $30/bag. It was a big contractor-grade trash bag filled up as far as it would go where you could still lift it without the bag breaking. People would buy it and float the nuts in water to separate from the shell and make mac nut butter out of it, and sell it at farmer's markets. I'm always suspicious of "homemade" mac nut butter because I don't know if his press is "food safe". We bought it for chicken feed.

[Futuremauian]

Originally Posted by hotzcatz

How do you move 800 pounds of papayas? Yeech! Wonder why they aren't processed into, hmm, what can papaya be processed into? Marmalade? Papaya pickles? Papaya kim chee?

Green Papaya Salad is awesome! (A bit like cole slaw.) If someone sold it here in Lahaina, I would be a regular customer.

Once in a while a Thai friend of mine makes it. She uses Sesame oil, peanuts, hot pepper flakes. Not sure what else.

I'm really not a fan of ripe papaya. Much prefer mangoes or pineapple.