Cauliflower

[Bigjon44]

Always the way.small,crappy frosted ones making £2 each in Spitalfields yesterday. Grow lovely massive white ones through the summer and they're worth bugger all!!



All about supply and demand!!

 

[Bogweevil]

The recent chill will play heck with growers’ crop scheduling, even Cornwall was unusually chilly, possibly crop loses too.

 

[Driller]

-4 for a few days has had a serious effect on supply and quality, we’re seeing pepper spot on the curd so makes some of the cauli either unmarketable or class 2 that supermarkets won’t take. A minimum 12cm curd size is the rule but I’ve seen some shocking ones in sainsburys the other day.

 

[david]

Some of the cauli in supermarkets is no where near 12cm spec, but growers where right to give cauli a hard cut before period of frost.

 

[Hindsight]

-4 for a few days has had a serious effect on supply and quality, we’re seeing pepper spot on the curd so makes some of the cauli either unmarketable or class 2 that supermarkets won’t take. A minimum 12cm curd size is the rule but I’ve seen some shocking ones in sainsburys the other day.

In Morrisons last night curds were in very poor state. Brown almost. Pepper spot. No wrapper lead. They looked as though they were used in the big game last Sunday in Qatar.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Never heard it called a curd.

 

[Kidds]

Never heard it called a curd.

Really?
Surprised to hear that

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Really?
Surprised to hear that

Didn’t really have it much when young, would have thought it was just called a head.