About storing carrots, beets, onions, potatoes in the refrigerator

[About storing carrots, beets, onions, potatoes in the refrigerator]

About storing carrots, beets, onions, potatoes in the refrigerator

I always keep carrots in the refrigerator! I put it in a plastic bag, put it in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator, but the bag is always open for ventilation and air access - the carrots are stored very well, hard and crunchy.

For kartocha I found another option: in the bottom drawer at the bottom I put several crumpled sheets from magazines (culinary, read !!!), then potatoes, and on top again a few crumpled sheets from the magazine. Potatoes are stored well. True, I don't buy a lot of potatoes, about 2.5-3 kg. and until we eat it.
The method of storing potatoes and vegetables under sheets of newspapers and magazines has been known for a long time.

Thus, I wrap other vegetables, apples, which are stored in the refrigerator.

Admin, thanks for the paper storage method!
How do you store cabbage?

[Gin]

To your health!

Gin, thanks, with your light hand I opened a special topic, let's share our experience How to keep cabbage fresh?

Everything in Ireland is very wet / juicy, VERY watery. I just don't keep onions and potatoes in the refrigerator, but carrots, beets, radishes, herbs ... - in the refrigerator. But it doesn’t just sit in open plastic bags for a couple of days, it starts to get damp and deteriorate. Therefore, I put a few paper towels in the bag on top of the product, spread it out to cover everything completely, and so the excess moisture is absorbed into these paper towels. Sometimes you have to change after a few days.
With carrots in general, there is trouble here, only this saves. But I don't store vegetables HERE for more than a couple of weeks.
Any greens can be preserved in this way for a longer time, even in conditions of normal humidity, covered with napkins or paper towels.
I read this advice for a long time specifically for greens, but to solve other problems I tried it on vegetables

I do not store fruits, they are on sale here all year round and we quickly eat the purchased ones.

I store carrots in the refrigerator as follows. I wash the carrots very carefully, cut off the tails (which are with tops, so that there are no dimples with the remains of the earth). I dry it very thoroughly (I lay it out on a paper towel). I put absolutely dry and very clean carrots 2-3 pieces tightly in dry clean plastic bags and twist so that there is less air. I put the bags tightly in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator. It is stored wonderfully until the new harvest. From time to time I look through, and I use those bags in which condensation appears first. I must say that condensation in bags is a rare phenomenon, no more than 10% of the total. The carrots remain firm, juicy, almost fresh. The vegetable drawer of my refrigerator holds 5-6 kg of carrots.

Last year I experimented in the same way with beets and black radish. I was satisfied with the beets, they also lay without problems until almost the new harvest. The beets were stacked not very large. Black radish - about a C grade. Until the New Year, it was nothing, and then it began to wither.

I have been using this storage method for many years.

I have BioFresh in my refrigerator. I store almost all vegetables and fruits (except for cucumbers, tomatoes) in a BioFresh box, but not in sealed bags, otherwise they (vegetables) will suffocate. They are stored for a very long time. I forgot what rotten vegetables are. It is a pity that there is only one vegetable drawer. You can't put too much

Last fall I happened to buy "bags" of carrots and onions.When these bags were brought to me, I almost burst into tears and tried to refuse them, because these bags turned out to be huge bags. And what to do, how to store it in the apartment? The guys from Tula themselves suggested how to store onions.
We take a box (I had 2 sizes 45x25x30), lay out a layer of onions, cover with a newspaper, lay out the next layer, again a newspaper. And so we fill the whole box. We close the box. The box itself was in the hallway. The onions must be dry, if the onions are wet they will rot. In this way, the onion survived until June from September.
I found about carrots in the internet. We line the newspaper in the vegetable drawer in the refrigerator. Then again layers: carrots, newspaper. No packages. But I covered the box itself with cling film. And periodically checked and removed the condensation. No matter how well the refrigerator works, there is still condensation. I didn't wash the carrots. Thus, the carrots survived until spring, did not live until summer, ended.