Chokos: everything you need to know 🌱😍 | Everyday | ABC Australia

Thanh the @FruitNerd finds a huge choko vine at Melbourne University's horticulture garden and demonstrates how to pick and cook the abundant fruit that grows from this common suburban plant.
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[@Natures_Son]

I like this bloke. I like his delivery.

[@susanpitt4742]

How nice to be taught about the rarer things growing. Thank you.

[@adrianianna2868]

I have grown these for some years & you really need to keep them in check. You also get more fruit that way. they make great pickles , good steamed with salt pepper & butter. A lot of people don:t like them because they think of them as "poor peoples food " from the depression but I like them. I give most away at work as Phillapino people love them & my Indian neighbors would take them to the temple for their feasts. One vine gives me hundreds & no special care needed. When you cut the vines down they go great in the compost.

[@janeababe]

Thank you. I learned everything I needed to know about chokos 👍🏻👍🏻☺️

[@benschulz3871]

they come in a white variety also...we grow both...delish 👌

[@TobiasTheWolf]

Excellent video

[@bowbow1034]

You need to go to Darjeeling mate during the Northern Hemisphere summers. Choko is every where.

[@thecrankster]

Those look nice. Those grown off the fence when I was a kid were drier and yellower green. They weren’t appealing, but then we’d never heard of stir frying in those days. They usually got the cricket bat treatment.

[@MorethanRn]

Wow

[@OldBumOnABike]

They used to be used in canned pears as well.

[@lorindarogers5701]

Wondering when they fruit in Aus and when you should cut the vine back plz?

[@datwistyman]

Can you eat the vine leaves? I would assume so if you can eat the shoots.

[@techwizpc4484]

Yes.

[@moniquem783]

Now if only I could find one to buy so I can let it shoot.

[@andrewsurridge197]

I got given a choko and it was spiky

[@techwizpc4484]

Some varieties have smoother skins. You probably got a wild variety, at least I assume the spiky ones are wild.

[@conjunctivitis420]

Sweet like broccoli? Where y'all getting your broccolis 👀

[@ronachadwick7908]

Haha! Must admit i thought the same!

[@blackwoodrichmore4531]

Chayote originates from Peru.

[@user-nacv-8867]

Ok