What containers/devices/methods do you use?
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I am assuming you mean cut/peeled fruits and veggies?
Whole stuff just goes in the fridge, sans wrapping (except for lettuce, which I wrap in paper towels.
I am also looking for a smarter way to process my veg for weeknight dinners. I know you're supposed to keep carrots and celery submerged in cold water when you cut them, I usually just use metal bowls for that. I also chop up broc and cauliflower, and just store in a metal bowl, with a sheet of damp paper towel on top.
What stumps me are the watery vegetables, like zucchini.
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@looch: Whole! I am trying to figure out the best way to store bananas (I just leave the bunch on the counter . . . they seem to brown so darn quickly!). I think pretty much everything else goes in the fridge, except for oranges. And veggies . . . *oy* Where do people keep their onions/garlic/potatoes? I have an in-kitchen pantry, but don't know a good way to house them.
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@MsLipGloss: I read somewhere that if you take them apart (so they're not stuck together as one bunch), they ripe slower. Also I read something about wrapping the tip in tinfoil for the same effect?!
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Our bananas always go brown quickly. It seems like they go from
Green to brown in a matter of a day or so. I just leave them on the counter (in a fruit bowl) but keep them separate from other fruits.I usually cut up veggies once or twice a week and store them in glass lock containers. I find that if I don't prep them like that ahead of time, they inevitably fall into the veggie black hole and turn into a plastic bag of unidentifiable mush.
Onions, garlic, potatoes- I keep those in our kitchen pantry, in a basket. It's dark and cool in there so they keep pretty well.
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Ah, okay!
I keep onions and potatoes whole, in my fridge. My house is on the warm side and the kitchen especially, so it made more sense to use cold storage.As for bananas, yes, they do go ripe very quickly, I buy two smaller bunches, one green, one less green more yellow. Then when they get super ripe, I put them right in the freezer, peel and all!
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@MsLipGloss: seperate the bananas. It does help. But I try and buy ripe ones for the beginning of the week. And green ones so they last till the next grocery week.
I have an older version of these. But they help to keep things fresh. I will chop up lettuce on Sunday for 3 days. After that I find it doesn't keep. Strawberries only wash and cut a couple days at a time. Grapes, I wash and bag in in Ziploc for me to take for my snack. Same with celery. We do mostly frozen veggies during the week, R won't eat them anyway, so I would rather waste the cheap stuff.
I did hear celery will last for a month wrapped up in foil.
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Onions, garlic, and potatoes go in root bins in the pantry. Tomatoes, citrus fruits, apples, pears, bananas etc - really all fruit besides berries - go on the counter in fruit bowls. Leaf veggies are washed and stored with a paper towel in whatever container is handy. They go in the crisper. I chop veggies with skin in advance and store them in metal bowls with plastic lids on the other side of the crisper. The humidity levels are different in the two drawers, but I don't know the difference. My husband set it.
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Yup, separate the bananas! I peel and freeze them when they go bad for banana bread for E.
I only use pre-minced garlic in the jar (easy). I keep potatoes and onions on the counter but we go through onions like whoa and i only keep a few potatoes at a time.
I used to have those green veggie bags that aerated the methylene gasses (which are what make the food go bad) and they worked great while I had them.
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I have a banana stand on my counter (but also heard that separating is best), berries go in the fridge, potatoes in the pantry and all other veggies go in the produce drawer.
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@Smurfette: I have those (older) containers too! I love them! The vents are awesome.
I probably don't store things 'right', but I don't keep them around for too long to find out. Bananas have a separate basket on the counter. Apples, oranges, limes, lemons, etc have another basket. Potatoes, onions and garlic live in a pretty bowl on the table (sometimes a random acorn squash when I have one). Everything else is in the fridge just as it comes. I don't pre-wash or cut anything - just do that when I use it.
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I've read that you shouldn't store potatoes and onions together. Does anyone know about that? I feel like my potatoes were going bad faster so we've separated them.
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