I'm surprised by how some people eat their figs.
I simply just peel off the neck part and eat split the fig in half to make sure no bugs are inside, then eat it with the skin and all. I don't wash it, and I don't peel it, and I don't like it refridgerated. Fresh off the tree is the best way for me to eat it.
How do you like eating yours?

All of the above!

I usually eat skin and all as well. But a few have had a tough skin so I have to peel.

Bass I do the same as you just remove neck is all, I dont wash or refrigerate and dont like peeling figs either. I too split it in half to check for bugs and to admire the pulp and then eat it thick rubbery skinned figs find new homes as I refuse to peel a fig.

I dint peel them but kadota and peters honey I eat the insides out and leave the skin in the compost pile. Also I break every fig in half except celest it's too small. I never refrigerate my figs it's like refrigerating a red wine. You don't do it. But that's just me

If they are a closed-eye variety, I commence to eating until I reach the stem. If they are an open-eye variety, I cut in half lengthwise, inspect, and then eat from eye end until I hit the stem. No waste! Never wash or refrigerate. At least not until I can get a humidified cooler like one uses to store fertile eggs until it's time to hatch. You can actually use a CPU fan suspended over a bowl of water and place it in a regular refrigerator to achieve the ideal humidity for fig storage (I used to use it for my gamebird eggs). Kitchen refrigerators take humidity out and dehydrate food too fast.

For me personally, a cold fig doesn't taste the same. But it may be due to what you referred to above.

Dominick Im with you on that note, Dont care for dried figs and Hate fig newton's. I once peeled a black mission just to see the difference in flavour and it was huge allot of dark figs specially have lots of flavour in the skin you peel that your only getting half of the yumm yumm goodness.

So far I have found the Portuguese varieties and Azores ones in my collection to have the thinnest skin.

Before my Brown Turkey started getting sour, I peeled them because they were quite big, with rough-textured skins that came off very easily. I would also refrigerate them because there were simply too many to eat right off the tree. We'd have bowls of cold, cut, peeled figs for dessert and everybody loved them. Years ago, my grandmother did the same thing with Black Missions off her gigantic tree in Sacramento--except she served them for breakfast, in a bowl with milk poured over them. They were actually quite good that way, but I've never felt inclined to try it again as an adult.

See now I love Fig Newtons and just bought some the other day. I ate them for years before even tasting a fresh fig. Now of course I prefer fresh figs and I eat them straight from the tree, no fridge, just eat down to the stem.  

I don't like cold figs, it seems like flavor declines when the figs are cold.
Skin has certainly adds a lot of flavor to the figs, I usually don't like figs with thick skin, although these are the prefered figs for commercial production.
I'm glad you guys agree with me.

 Just eat them off the tree. I loved them when I was young,mashed together with soft butter and teaspoon of honey. All in a bowl, to put on our breakfast biscuits!

 But, I love figs any way I can eat them.   Fredfig

I like them cold frozen ones are good too like fig sickles but they rarly make it in the house I just pick and eat them whole all but the stem I don't break them in half if ants are crawling on them I blow them off and eat.

My wife likes the figs the day after I pick them.I eat the figs as I pick them with bugs and all.And my dog isn't picky either.She eats them as i pick them or the nextday with my wife bugs and all.Six figs to go.

Phil from Northern Ohio.The best location in the nation,except for this past ugly,rainy summer.However the Figs were great.

First I go to the store, take the pack of figs to the checkout, I pays my money, then go to the car.  While in the car, before I turn the ignition key,  I take a fig in my fingers and stick it in my mouth - all but the stem, and then chew.  Never thought about tearing them apart to check for bugs.  Guess I've been lucky! 

Usually buy too many to eat at one time - they do have a number of carbs.  So I put them in the frig and eat them cold later.  They last longer and they are still quite enjoyable. 

Had a fig newton the other day, and can say that I don't like them any more.  However, I do really like dried figs - as I do most dried fruit. 

I have never eaten a fig with the skin on until joining this forum. Growing up figs were always pealed then served, usually for breakfast...yum! I've since tried them with the skin and I'm not sure I like them that way but it depends on the variety. Thin-skinned figs I'll eat the skin. Thick-skinned, no. To me it's like biting into the fuzzy skin of a peach. The thicker-skinned figs I break in half and eat the pulp only.

Well, since I have not yet had the pleasure of a just-off-the-tree-ripened-fig, I have to say I am with the neighborhood troglodyte on this.  Snag the carton of figs from store, sit in car, open container, inspect the eye, and EAT to the stem.  I suspect since I like cold or cool figs (they are cold from the grocery store), then I may just pass out when I get to taste one fresh off the tree.  I have yet to come across a fig preparation I don't like...except maybe the Syrup of Figs they market--don't think I want that. LOL.  I have not had a fig newton in years, but I do plan on making some with my fig jam!
My favorite way to eat a fresh fig: in a bowl, sliced, and served with a good yogurt, or maybe fresh milk kefir, and a bit of honey.

I split them and eat them slow, with my eyes closed.

In large quantities if possible.

Karla

Slice the fig in half, wrap it in bacon [half a slice or so] and skewer with two soaked toothpicks. ..... grill with the cut side down first, this will help keep it juicy once you flip the fig to the other side. Be sure to rest and cool before consuming.