Box Temp

What do you guys pulp with? An older type thermometer probing product or does anyone use a laser temp gun you point at the product? I pick up a lot of useful knowledge from comments here in the reefer forum. Thanks for that.

 

Buy 2 of these
If they agree, you can bet they are both correct.
Laser point at it is no use - that will only tell you skin temperature, you want the pulp temp.

 

OK that makes sense. So let me ask another rookie question. Say you have to pulp blackberries or strawberries. So you just stick several of the berries? Every pallet? A couple of times. Two or three times? I've never run across any of this and maybe never will but was wondering. Because I never really know and if someone will pay you go with the money.

 

Yea, try to choose at random which boxes you pulp. Dirty shenanigans would be to put hot produce in the centre of the pallet and by the time you get there it's ruined. Don't come across it too often though. Other times the pallet may have just been put together so the bottom half may be cool from sitting in the cooler while top half is warm. Certain things like melons right out of the field will never be cool. Your reefer will run like hell all the way to the delivery. I've never had a problem, but then again I don't do much in the way of melons ...

 

So.... After you pulp your fruit (Stab it with a thermometer probe) what do you do with the now injured fruit? Leave it? Remove it and eat it? Throw it away?

 

I never load fresh without tasting.....and you should dispose of what u pulp....but when it gets to the mkt it Will get pulped at least twice....if not ever pallet&most of that stays

 

I usually just stick the probe down into all the berries in a single package. They're so small, the skin temp for berries in the middle should be the same as the pulp.

I just toss it. Sometimes they have bins specifically for that.

However, I did pick up cantaloupes in PA one time where the gal in shipping stuck the probe into a melon in the middle of a pallet on the tail. She made no attempt to sterilize the probe and left the melon on the shipment. So keep that in mind if you eat cantaloupe.