Marsh Grapefruit

If you think the spork was the greatest invention of the last century, then this is the fruit for you!

APPEARANCE Rating:

Yellow skin, yellow flesh – big as a grapefruit!

AROMA Rating:

Sweet and floral

TEXTURE Rating:

Extremely juicy with very few, quite small seeds (most sites claim this is a seedless variety), very thick pith

TASTE Rating:

This has a pure grapefruit flavor – not overly acidic or tart but not super sweet or sugary either

OVERALL Overall Rating:

I love this grapefruit. For some reason it reminds me of grapefruits in my childhood before I knew they came in the super candy sweet versions. This one kept squirting juice in my eye every time I dug in to take a bite. Also, my lips tingled like crazy after eating it. All of which, I found completely charming.

FRUIT

Graperfruit

VARIETY

Marsh

PEAK

Winter

ORIGIN

Lakeland, Florida

GROWN

Creekside Tropicals
California

PURCHASED

Farmer’s Market

NOTES

I have somewhat mixed feelings on the fact that this fruit warrants a spoon specifically designed for eating it. Behold the Grapefruit Spoon! I have always painstakingly used a knife to cut the fruit in half, then slice between each and every little wedge so that I could later scoop it out with a spoon at my leisure. Grapefruit spoons essentially save a step. As previously mentioned on this site, I am all for laziness but somehow this just seems wrong to me. I suppose we could label it “efficiency”, take joy in “needing” a new cute little spoon and call it a day, but I think I might just take stand here and say NO! The ritual of the grapefruit must be maintained, passed down. What kind of world do we want to leave to our children? A world with confusing drawers of specialized spoons? I think not!

RECIPES

Grapefruit Martini
Vietnamese Vermicelli (Bun) with Ginger-Grapefruit Sauce

5 Comments

Sarah Whittenberg-Hawe on December 4, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Actually I think the grapefruit spoon is pretty useful and definitely not a multi-tasker. My most common use for it is to scoop seeds and guts out of melons and winter squashes. I only have one, and it was made by some German cutlery company. It cost about $25 but was totally worth it.

Fruit Maven on December 6, 2009 at 10:05 pm

Hmm…maybe I need to personally test the grapefruit spoon. Adding to my ever growing Christmas list.

Richard Weissman on November 13, 2010 at 10:02 am

Your comments on the Longan had me laughing for 3 minutes. Your comments on the cocktail grapefruit was extremely seriously helpful. Thanks

James on October 25, 2019 at 3:08 pm

Abandoned the spoon and the toothed g-knife long ago.
Quickest and most succulent method ever is”
1. Lay the grapefruit on it’s side.
2. Use chef’s knife to trim 1/4″ off of the top and bottom.
3. Begin at either end and start slicing off 11/16″ thick slices.
4. Stack slices back together, one pair at a time.
5. Cut the paired up slices into little mini pizza wedges.
6. Hold each wedge but the grapefruit skin “handle”.
7. Chomp the flesh away from the skin.
8. Toss the flesh.
9. Repeat, repeat, repeat,…
10. Commence salivating uncontrollably.

Fruit Maven on November 18, 2019 at 10:07 am

What a fun idea! Thanks 🙂 I’ll try it.