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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Salt and other sodium related garbage

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Um sweaty dry beans are shelf stable for five years ☝️🤓

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can my beans be sweaty and dry?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Same as the girls I hit on at the gym.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Avocados are the worst offenders in another way — they turn from unripe to overripe in a matter of single day it seems, and the only way to check the ripeness is to cut them up. No other fruit pulls this trickery.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No, but now I’ll try that, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Someone has never seen a pawpaw fruit then..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Frozen veggies are cheap and healthy and can weather many ice ages in the back of the freezer before being rediscovered

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wash your veggies when you buy them, dry them thoroughly, and store them in a sanitary environment; they'll last much longer this way.

I regularly keep my organic veggies for weeks at a time before cooking them with no molds or rotting.

It also helps to buy from a growers market where things haven't been in cold storage for months before getting to the store.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you say wash, do you use some sort of cleaner? I rinse mine off and get a week, maybe a week and a half from most of my veggies before they spoil. I also live in a swamp so that might have something to do with it lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wash with plain water and a little bit of citric acid or vinegar.

Keep (unused) silica gel kitty litter in a mesh bag in your fridge to lower the relative humidity, I lived in a swamp for a while too :/

Edit: dry your silica gel in the oven every couple weeks, once it looks like it's losing its transparency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This, and don’t discount the effect of good airflow. People need to stop storing fruits and veggies in plastic; it just traps moisture and promotes rot. I got these mesh bags that really increased their shelf/refrigerator life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Store your avocados in the fridge in a bowl/tupperware of water. They will ripen much much slower. Like 5x I swear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah because even bacterias don't want that junk lol