It's hit and miss even with freshly picked on a farm yourself strawberries I find. We regularly go pick strawberries in summer at local farms. It depends a lot

It's hit and miss even with freshly picked on a farm yourself strawberries I find. We regularly go pick strawberries in summer at local farms. It depends a lot on what variety you get to pick that day and whether the weather was favourable or not. There are some strawberries that are basically like the supermarket ones. I tend to ignore those rows. Not much in the taste department, either just watery or just sweet. They might smell a bit like strawberries but not really much. Those usually are the easiest to pick though and get home in one piece. But then there are also some that just have an actual strawberry flavor. It's like an explosion of flavor in your mouth. Like the smell of a bucket full of strawberries but you can actually taste that when biting into the strawberry. I could stay there all day and just pick those and eat them right away. But then I wouldn't ever be able to make strawberry jam from them.