I know about tomatoes, but is there any reason not to put peaches in the fridge? I got a Costco box of them and then DH immediately got deployed for a wildland fire for the next two weeks. The peaches are ripe and juicy to the point of ridiculous, can I put them in the fridge? Other than eating three or more a day?
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Once they are ripe, I fridge them, lest they go overripe.
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Another vote for being OK to slow down ripening by means of refrigeration. Iāve done this several times with peaches when under time constraints (and Iām only talking about peaches here), and itās worked out OK.
ETA: Otherwise, jam-a-lot.
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Well crap- here Iāve been treating them like tomatoes. Thank you all. I donāt expect them to keep much longer but at least I know now. 
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In my experience, tomatoes will get mealy in the fridge. Peaches will just hold.
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Thereās nuttinā like an ice cold juicy peach eaten out of hand. Once they are so close to ripe, refrigerate them separately, not touching, and finish them up quickly or process by cutting and freezing, baking or canning.
Good thoughts for our firefighters and emergency crews, not only now in āfire seasonā, but always!
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I put both (tomatoes and peaches) in the fridge.
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And you donāt find that tomatoes lose their flavor when refrigerated?
Nope.
Refrigerate when ripe, and not only do they last longer, but they suffer no degradation in the taste department.
Same with virtually all stone fruits. I know, given that I have an apricot and peach tree, both of which provide more fruit than a small village can handle.
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Itās been debunked a few times over
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Another option
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Exactly, thanks
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Iāve been wondering if this goes only for grocery store tomatoes. Weāve been growing an over-abundance of delicious tomatoes for about 5 years now and over those years have refrigerated them on several occasions just to keep up with them lest they get over-ripe. Not once have we had it result in mealy tomato!! Matter of fact, it doesnāt seem to have a negative effect that we can discern.
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and no, freezing them doesnāt diminish their flavor either.
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I know that botanically they are not, but I feel like culinarily āgrocery store tomatoesā are an entirely different variety from āhome grown tomatoesā or āhome garden tomatoesā
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I was reading about this a few weeks ago. I stopped storing peaches in the fridge to prevent them from getting mealy, after having 6 litres of local peaches go mealy.
Then I purchased a 3 l basket of peaches 10 days ago, keeping them out at room temp from the Friday when I bought them, driving them from my vacation rental back to my home. They were fine Monday night, and they were half brown Tuesday morning.
The parts of the peaches I could salvage went into a crumble, and I started this thread.
Bruised or overripe fruit
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I find they can get mealy in the fridge. I donāt notice a difference in their flavour.
Thatās just heartbreaking. When I was in Colorado a couple of decades ago, a relative who used to run a country-type store in Arvada got a call from a guy whose truck full of peaches had been in a fender bender and offered to unload them fast and cheap before they started showing bruises. The house smelled of peaches all that day while the matriarchs canned peaches and made pies. Those peaches were about the best Iāve ever had. Did your peaches get bruised, or was it one of those other things that turn them brown, like age?
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