Great deal on some Australian Juicing Oranges - Ice Cold Orange Juice on a long hot summer day….
10kg delivered for $38 seems like a decent offering for Australian Oranges.
Not available to SA, WA, NT, QLD or TAS.
This deal was posted a little over a year ago and it got some love, so thought I'd look for something similar.
Also 10kg Premium Valencia (AUS) available for $48 delivered.
what's the difference between juicing vs eating ones??
According to the OP's link "Picked at maturity and full of sweet golden juices, our juicing oranges may not be as pretty to look at". Normally from my experience it means they are fully ripe/over ripe and starting to get on the squishy side.
Sounds about right. Fine to eat as per normal oranges, but might be a little soft.
$10 more for Premium version: https://www.farmhousedirect.com.au/kingfisher/premium-valenc…
Oranges sold as juicing generally have blemishes on the skin - where orange rests on a branch, or they are not quite round.
You can still eat them they are just not perfect in appearance
The old fugly oranges get sold off as juicers..
Yes I understand this, but many stores only sell Valencia oranges from USA. Some people don't like/can't carry 3kg Oranges. Horses for courses.
$3.8 per kilo, just average price
$38 for 10kg of oranges delivered to your door? You don't live near a Colesworth, you need Oranges for whatever reason…Show me this averagely available.
Not available to SA, WA, NT, QLD or TAS.
That leaves act, Vic and NSW. Shipping 25kg in these states costs about $10. Between states is about $20.
So $2.8 P/kg isn't on the cheap side.
The deal you link to from last year was for 'Premium' quality. The deal today is for 'juicing' quality which means ripe to over-ripe fruit.
For me there is a noticeable enough difference to forgo this.
I wouldn't assume they are over-ripe.
If a shop is selling juicing oranges it might be because they have old over-ripe stock they need to move. If a grower is selling them it's likely they are fresh but they don't meet the unrealistically high standards for size and appearance.
I manage to get 6-7 months of oranges from my own trees and squeeze a fresh juice each morning. Around this time last year we had just picked the last ones and bought a 3 kg bag of supermarket oranges. The difference between oranges fresh off the tree and the things out of a supermarket coolroom is always a shock (you sorta get used to it after a while) I got a couple of boxes of juicing oranges from a similar deal last year. They were way better than the supermarket oranges and just about as good as my own fruit. They were perhaps a bit fugly but not over-ripe. Although I reckon they might have been 20kg and cheaper per kilo, $3.80/kg is too high for me to pull the trigger on this deal.
Just go to sydney markets buy a box of orange for $15-$20 they are normally 15 kgs box.
Sweet. All of Australia live a 5 minute stroll from Sydney market. https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder596/29973596.jpg
Sounds a lot when I can just buy 3kg of Valencia oranges from Woolies for $1.97/kg (https://www.woolworths.com.au/Shop/Search/Products?searchTer…), and probably even cheaper if buying 10kg from my local Green Grocer. And those are suitable for eating and not only for juicing…