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I learned something new today about fruit and veggie storage.

I learned that you should never keep apples and oranges together in the same bowl. Apparently they both give off gases that make the other fruit go bad more quickly. If they are ripe enough, they should be stored in the fridge and will last about a month!

Tomatoes, on the other hand, should NOT be refrigerated unless you have cut them. Tomatoes CAN be refrigerated, but refrigeration changes them so that they will have a mealy sort of texture.

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Gibbon · 70-79, M Best Comment

The same can be said for onions. They should be stored at room temperature inside a cupboard or dark pantry. Once cut or peeled they should be refrigerated. Any dish prepared with onions should also be refrigerated.
I learned these things when I was baching it years ago when was able to buy prepare and eat/taste my own food.

4meAndyou · F

@Gibbon Great point! Most people don't know that refrigerating an onion will remove MOST of the nice, sharp onion flavor!

Matt85 · 36-40, M

thanks :)

Gibbon · 70-79, M

Aww thanks for BC

4meAndyou · F

@Gibbon You are MOST welcome!

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

And ripe bananas give off a gas that can make greener ones ripen faster. Don’t store onions and potatoes together either.

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4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti Well, THAT explains a lot. I have one of those double tiered storage baskets on my countertop, and I used to keep BOTH the onions and potatoes stacked one veg on top of the other. Lots of potatoes went bad.

Eventually I bought a macrame net bag and hung the potatoes about 5 feet distant, and that worked much better. NOW I don't eat potatoes anymore, so...NOT an issue.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou some people like to store their potatoes in a dark place. I had a neighbor one time who told me her mother told her to put them in the closet and keep the door closed to keep out the light. She did and forgot about them and started smelling them and it was rotten potatoes by then. I think it the closet next to the kitchen that had a folding door. She hadn’t cooked potatoes for quite a while and forgot about them.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti The deadbeats who skipped out on their rent so that I had sheriff's notices posted on my door out in the hallway ALSO put their potatoes in the kitchen closet and allowed them to rot.

When I moved in, the effluvia from their rotten potatoes had soaked into the untreated fiber board floor of the closet, and the smell would NOT die until I painted the fiberboard heavily with acrylic paint and sealed it.

BridgeOvertroubledWaters · 61-69, M

Thanks for the useful advice

Bignakedguy · 31-35, M

Well that explains why my apples and oranges went bad fast

oldguy73 · 70-79, M

also sitting next to certain people, they give off gas too, lol

jackrabbit10 · M

some people are like fruit ,

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

Another reason for not comparing apples and oranges... ? 🤔

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