Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: sclarke624 on July 07, 2010, 16:55
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I know best eaten straight away, but if you had to store for a day would you put in an airtight box, just leave on kitchen counter with kitchen towel over them (flies), or put in fridge.
What do you reckon.
I know I can freeze etc.
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From experience, they soon go moldy if left out.
I've just jammed some that had been in an open container in the fridge for 2 days and they were fine.
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Yup, 'fridge; you've got to try and slow down the biological processes trying to attack these very perishable fruit. Don't pack them firmly or too deep or the juice will tend to self-extract under their own weight.
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Ta you all.
Wide flat box, so not squashing under own weight, in the fridge then. Do you put a lid on.
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Ta you all.
Wide flat box, so not squashing under own weight, in the fridge then. Do you put a lid on.
I would, mainly to stop them picking up a taint from anything else in the fridge.
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If you do put a lid on there is a good chance you will get condensation which will make the berries go mouldy faster.
Wide shallow container with the lid off is better.
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Exactly what I did.
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Fight
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Fight
NO WAY am I going to war over a plastic box of raspberries!! :nowink:
I'm sure nothing would happen to them for a day or so which was what your original question was about; that's how they're packed and stored in supermarkets after all (and they know everything!) :wacko:
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There are air holes in the supermarket ones to let them breath.
Runs away & hides.
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There are air holes in the supermarket ones to let them breath.
Runs away & hides.
Had to read that one twice (must get eyes checked out!) :lol:
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I put some in a sealed tub expecting them to be collected by someone within the hour and said person turned up 24 hrs later, resulting in sweaty raspberries.
Luckily i spotted it and had time to `air' them before collection. :)
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I put some in a sealed tub expecting them to be collected by someone within the hour and said person turned up 24 hrs later, resulting in sweaty raspberries.
sweaty raspberries.- sounds very painful!!
::) ::) ::)
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Well, just to tip this post upside down! I was given a margarine tub full of fresh raspberries on Saturday, have kept them in the fridge in their lidded box and had some more tonight, no sweat, no mould, just lovely raspberries!!! :D :D
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I put some in a sealed tub expecting them to be collected by someone within the hour and said person turned up 24 hrs later, resulting in sweaty raspberries.
sweaty raspberries.- sounds very painful!!
::) ::) ::)
Fortunately the thread is about raspberries and not plums!
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???
Off to the norty step with you!
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Well, just to tip this post upside down! I was given a margarine tub full of fresh raspberries on Saturday, have kept them in the fridge in their lidded box and had some more tonight, no sweat, no mould, just lovely raspberries!!! :D :D
Mine are obviously jucier than the one`s you were given. :D