vegetable storage

Somerled

Why not use the old form of veg storage in the time s before fridges - i.e. on a piece of slate or marble in a well ventilated cupboard. But this is no good with new homes these days that are over-heated/insulated against the cold.
The only other tip I would use is keep them in the boxes which are used to sell them at the market - they often get discarded at the end of the day and are free/ They stack and allow flow through of air. In some houses the bathroom can be the coolest room?

APennySaved

{ Re thread: posting a comment - hmmm, only 8 years later! :-D . . . }

I have a similar query re bananas.

We have a modern (read: nice & insulated = warm) house. So we store extra potatoes in the dark cool garage, where they keep far longer than in the house.

Have just bought 2 heavily reduced bags of bananas - couldn't resist them as they were reduced to what worked out as literally 1 pence per banana! Yikes! ,-)

However, as 20 bananas is far too much for us to eat beore they overripen, the house can only store a bunch or two. So have an 'overstock' of 10 bananas!

I do not have time for any baking, & would rather not freeze the bananas as I gather that makes them lose their firmness.,

Therefore am wondering if the garage is a ghood bet, for storing them, to keep the in a good condition.

Will that work for bananas, if it works for storing potatoes? And if so, how many weeks might they last? (Our garage is separate from the house, so is nice & cool.)

amalis

good post, I was going to ask a similar question. I don't have a garage, but I have own garden. I was thinking on buying one of the storage plastic boxes and keep veggies there, outside. What do everyone think ?

spadoosh

Humidity will be your concern in the garage. Also part of the reason why we have the does it belong in fridge or cupboard debates. Your fridge will be more humid than your cupboards but obviously cooler which takes priority will depend on the food.

Dont think you have an easy way of storing bananas without processing them.

I dehydrate bananas to eat with cereal (dont really eat bananas). In fact most fruit and vegetable i dehydrate when i have a glut. Not something we really do in the UK but a good method to use for storing fresh fruit and veg.

chrissy59

in the winter i store my vegs in the greenhouse on the bench as it keeps longer

APennySaved

Thanks spadoosh & everyone else. Great ideas!

Have no time at the mo to try your super dehydration unit idea, though I have seen these units in shops & had already put a dehydration stack on my list of must-buy-gadgets; I had planned to buy a unit when I found time to try it out! but needless to say with all such ideals I hadn't found time yet . . . ,-)

Think I will just have to try & see if/how a garage idea works. I might as well as there's nothing to lose £-wise, at 1p-per-banana!! . . . VFM!! :-) :-)

Though I have another concern re using the garage as a storage place, that is re the potential 'pest' factor: Iam worried that the softer-than-potatoes bananas will be more prone to become prey to 'orrid little creatures that might then decide to prowl about in the garage! Especially as fruit flies etc. love the scent/gas that bananas give off more than any other fruit I've seen, so bananas might draw in vermin more than potatoes. I don't fancy having mice etc. finding their way into the garage! YIKES! :-/

Sadly there is no space in the kitchen, so will try the garage idea for a week or two, until Christmas is over & the kitchen is back to normal.


. . . MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE & ALL ! !

PasturesNew

angie_loves_veg wrote: »

only problem is that I can only get to market every Thursday....... I really am trying to work weekly with this one

In that case you might have to resign yourself to having to freeze some of it - as it is, or pulped, in order to keep it going all week.