I feel like there’s already a few rotten ones hiding when you buy them
Always a few bad ones at the bottom, yep.
Gotta throw the squishies before you get going
I dump them into a sieve and rinse them off before transferring to another bowl. I also remove the squishy ones.
It should keep the mold spores away for a little longer.
Raspberries are worse. When you buy them they should’ve been eaten 24 hrs ago.
I’m convinced the raspberry companies are just shipping mold at this point.
“Hey, make sure those pallets of berries sit in the sun for another day. Sprinkle some spores on them too.”
If I don’t eat them immediately, I chop them and toss them in sugar. That stuff stays for a while and its great on everything.
Came here just to say this
If you wash berries of when you get home with white vinegar, they will last so much longer.
Genuine question, how do you wash raspberries? I feel like they get mushy if I wash and leave them, so I do it right before eating them.
Whoa. I wonder why. Do you know the science behind this?
I read on it years ago, but I think it helps kill the mold spores.
“It’s not exactly that vinegar itself extends the life of berries. It’s the fact that vinegar is so acidic that it kills or inhibits the growth of a lot of the bacteria and fungus, including mold, that may grow on berries, which makes the fruit last longer,” explains Sean Brady Kenniff, EatingWell’s senior digital food editor. (By the way, this same technique should work to clean just about any fruit, not just berries.)
Does the white vinegar ruin the taste?
The way I wash them is to place a colander in a bowl and fill with 50/50 lukewarm water and white vinegar.
Wash them off in that. Pull the colander out and rinse with cold water. Set aside to dry.
I did it a couple weeks ago after seeing this tip here. No after taste. They were fine for about 4 days but on day 5 every strawberry was covered in fuzz instead of just one or two.
As long as they don’t soak in it, probably not. It sounds like you just give them a splash.
Raspberries are worse.
“you have 10 millisecond-- too late!!!”
Argh not again :s
dont wash strawberries until you are ready to eat them.
I started washing my strawberries with a little bit of vinegar, then storing them in a new container in the fridge. It’s helped a lot
Yes, this is the solution
Actually it sounds more like a mixture to me
¿Por que no los dos?
Haven’t tried the vinegar yet but I store them in an air tight container and throw a bit of paper towel in there for good measure. Lasts at least a week.
wash…strawberries…
I’ve never heard anyone doing that
You should absolutely wash everything you intend to put in your body. Not only are fruits and vegetables covered with things like pesticides, even when they are totally organic, they were probably fertilized with nitrates which are bad to ingest (and organic pesticides are a thing and not good for humans). And even if that isn’t the case, they grow those things outside like on the ground. There is a reasonable chance at least one animal has pooped or peed on them.
I also noticed that, especially with bananas, when I started washing them as soon as I got home I didn’t get any gnats, because gnats will absolutely lay their eggs on the outside of fruits even at the store.
washing bananas
Now you’re just pulling my leg
washing bananas
Now you’re just pulling my leg
washing bananas
Now you’re just pulling my leg
What can I say, I’ve literally never in my life heard anyone doing that or even recommending it. People just eat the strawberries fresh after buying it from from the berry stand
I never buy Driscoll fruit (particularly strawberries and blueberries) for this very reason. When I used to work at a grocery store, half of the time the Driscoll fruits would be rotten already upon arrival to the store!
There are plenty of self-picking strawberry farms around here anyway. I can guarantee I have the freshest strawberries if I pick them myself.
Yep there’s so many moldy ones already. I took pride in my work and made sure not to put them out for sale, but cannot say the same about some of my coworkers
you don’t eat all of them within 15 minutes?
Also, freezing and smoothies later is a thing
I got some amazing strawberries in the summer and forgot about them in the freezer for many months. They were a little freezer burned, but I turned them into a SENSATIONAL sorbet, with some glucose syrup infused with mint leaves, a little lime juice, and a whisper of xanthan gum. I use this double-bowl method for making ice creams and sorbets.
Whoa, sounds amazing, I’ll have to try it!
It’s especially bad if you buy from Costco
Every Costco seems to have a mold problem. If you dont eat or freeze stuff from them that can get moldy expect it to within like 3 days. And this has been true of 3 states
My province seems to be fine when it comes to the lack of mold on Costco products
Province makes me think you are in Canada, i will say it gets worse the further south you go and i think it’s a heat and humid air in tue big warehouse where everything is kept all together kinda thing. Further north it gets better in the winter and worse in the summer again but i cant escape the bagels getting moldy within like 3 days of buying them and veggies being limp amd rotting within a similar time depending on which ones i got.
Made homemade liquor and embrace the hillbilly you have inside
Who told you about my inner hillbilly?
Who told you I let a hillbilly inside me?
Storing them in a sealed mason jar actually has them last way longer.
I have a solution. But apparently I should eat more fruit.
fresh is nice. good dried too
