Pear Buying: When is a pear ripe and tasty?

When buying pears, you are sometimes really frustrated. Either you buy solid pears and hope that they will be edible soft in the next three days. Or you buy soft - and behold, the next morning they have brown unpleasant spots.

The best place to test the maturity of a pear is at the "neck" of the pear, just below the stem. If the fruit here feels elastic-soft, it tastes great.

I worked at the plant fair in Essen a few days ago. This tip has betrayed me the owner of a nursery. He said pushing in the middle of the pear would not do much. Since the fruit may already be too soft.