Question of the Day - Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

[casportpony]

Today's question is from @Evadig:

If you eat asparagus, do you cut or break the ends off?

I cut off the inedible woody part.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Yeah, I don’t eat nasty green toothbrushes, thanks

 

[sourland]

Break

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Break x2

 

[R2elk]

Break

 

[CCsGarden]

cut and cook in the oven.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Today's question is from @Evadig:

I cut off the inedible woody part.

I don't eat asparagus. I hardly know asparagus.
What? It has a woody part?

 

[FrostRanger]

Cut
NGL asparagus sounds good right about now

 

[500Chickens]

break

 

[fowltemptress]

Okay, I have always read/heard that I'm supposed to cut or break off the woody ends of asparagus, but in all the time I've been buying asparagus I haven't found any part of it that seemed too tough or inedible? Do groceries and farmers markets sell them pre cut? Is this something I'll only encounter after I start harvesting my own next season? Or is my family eating "woody" ends without noticing? On the few occasions I've had asparagus at restaurants and other folks' homes I haven't noticed any difference between the texture of their asparagus vs. mine, so what on earth is this "end" that I'm supposed to be getting rid of?