Best way to store carrots

eilidh_s

I have a few of these hessian bag for life things in my pantry and I just tip out my carrots into one of them, they seem to last a lot longer than they did in the freezer. What ever you decide though, definitely take them out of the plastic bags!

shammyjack

Carrots are best stored in damp sand in a wood box and placed on a cold floor in the dark . They can be stored over winter in this way as well.

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If I don't par boil chop and freeze them then I always put them in the bottom salad drawer of the fridge I like to keep a couple in there to grate for salads this time of the year and one of my DGS loved carrot sticks to much on. I think he was a rabbit in a previous life :)

natlie

Hiya
cut off the tops and bottoms and keep them in an airtight container
Nat
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foxgloves

We find the supermarket carrots don't always last very long, but when we buy carrots from the farm stall on our local market, they last much longer. They are called 'mucky carrots' by the farm ladies who sell them, as they are sold with the green tops removed, but otherwise as they are pulled up from the fields with soil left on the roots. The first time we bought a bag, one of the ladies said not to wash them before we put them away and that they would then last twice as long as shop ones. And they did. I think that the supermarket ones undergo a thorough washing, then are probably damp when they are bagged, which then adds to the damp problem. Most homegrown veg, we're told to harvest it on a dry day to help it keep, so this could explain it?

floyd

I use Lock and Lock boxes for all my salad and other veg like carrots, cabbage, broccoli. Preferably use one of the ones with a drainer grid in the bottom, take the carrots out the bag and put in the box, ours last for 3-4 weeks like that. The imitation Lock and Locks don't work as well and tend to warp after a while and lose their water-tightness

HelenYorkshire

shammyjack wrote: »

Carrots are best stored in damp sand in a wood box and placed on a cold floor in the dark . They can be stored over winter in this way as well.

If one were to try this in an outbuilding, how likely is it that critters would eat the carrots before me?

thepurplegoldfish

Hi All

I like to prepare foods for packed lunches etc at the beginning of the week and I'm just wondering how long I can store grated carrot for in the fridge (in an air tight container).

Softstuff

The problem with carrots is they turn a funny colour as they oxidise. But if you add a little lemon and olive oil to the grated carrot, it'd last a bit longer. Even so I'd only give it a couple of days.

SilverBird_2

Try stirring some orange juice through the grated carrots - they usually keep well enough from being prepared at night until lunch the next day.