On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 21:40:04 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 11:26:19 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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>> My favorite way is to go to the local orchards and get them ripe from
>> the tree like nature intended. Peaches from the supermarket are a crap
>> shoot. Sometimes they are great, other times mealy.
>>
>Yes, that would be my preferred method as well but since there are no
>known orchards around here I'm at the mercy of the supermarket.

For cooking/baking these are better than fresh:
https://nuts.com/wholesale/driedfruit/peaches/