Our tips for keeping your fresh fruits and vegetables longer and avoiding spoiling good products.
Potatoes keep for a long time when they can be stored in a cool, fairly cool place, and all with a clay floor. But this last point is rare to say the least, unless you have a cellar!
On the other hand, you can compensate for this by also storing them in a cool place with no light but alongside apples which will limit the development of "eyes", these buds which grow on potatoes.
Our elders stored their carrots in sand protected from light and in a cool place. Once again, this technique has become complicated with our lifestyles!
You can, however, store your carrots longer by immersing them in water in a large bowl or plastic container that you can seal tightly before putting it in the refrigerator.
The primary enemy of preserving all varieties of salad is humidity during storage in the refrigerator. You can put a sheet of paper towel at the bottom of a dish before placing your salad on it and seal it all with plastic wrap or beeswax packaging.
If your salad has wilted a bit, it has dried out, there is a simple and particularly effective way to give it a second life: immerse your wilted salad leaves for fifteen minutes in a bowl filled with warm water. Once rinsed with cool water, it will have regained its youthful vigor!
Here we come to the grandmother's trick, which nevertheless works very well provided that you follow a few other rules. Place your onions in a pantyhose, making knots between each onion so that they do not touch each other.
Once done, do not expose them in your kitchen, so proud that you are your tip, because they should also be stored away from light and temperature changes preferably in a cool place.
The common mistake made with tomatoes is to believe that the refrigerator makes it easier to keep them. The tomato is a fruit of the sun and does not like cold at all. So do not put the tomatoes in the refrigerator, but rather prefer them in a cool place and away from direct light.
If you must keep large quantities, anticipate the fact that some may nevertheless rot by placing them, without stacking them, in a large dish that you will check regularly to eliminate the fruit lost to the cause.
The first thing to do when you buy a "diet" of bananas is to separate them all. Most of the time these diets are surrounded by plastics at the level of the tail as this promotes their conservation.
After separating the fruit, wrap the tails in stretch film and place the bananas in a dark place, avoiding, from purchase to consumption, knocking or jostling them because they are very sensitive to shocks.
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