Last year I had so many Asian Pears and apples (GoldRush and Rubinette) to store that I ended up doing a variety of storage techniques. I cook and freeze some Asian pears with cinnamon/brown sugar for later consumption. However, I also try to store as much as possible in the fridge either the everyday kitchen fridge or a small spare one in the basement. I also stored additional Asian pears (and maybe some of the greener GoldRush apples??) in cardboard boxes in the basement though I would rotate them into the smaller fridge as space became available. The basement stays around 50F during the winter. I focused on consuming the Rubinette apples and Shinseki and Chojuro Asian pears first. The GoldRush apples and Olympic Asian pears definitely need some cold storage time to enhance flavor. This year I definitely lost some to rot (mostly Asian pears) by January since I was not eating them fast enough. Eventually, I shut down the small fridge (saves energy!) and put the remaining GoldRush apples in a bucket and stored them outside under a covered patio since it didn't seem like we'd have hard/long freezes. This also allowed them to ripen up since they were green ones. I am now using up the frozen Asian pear "sauce" but I have resorted to buying grocery store fruit. Otherwise, I went most of the winter w/o needing to buy fruit!