What do you do when it comes to storing apples? I have always put mine in a fruit bowl with other fruit ut I have just discovered that is entirely wrong. reducing food waste is so important when budgeting so correct food storage is crucial.

So how do we go about storing apples?

 

 

 

Storing apples

According to the awesome folk at Love Food Hate Waste the best way when storing apples, to keep them fresh tasting and to help them last, longer is:

For freshness and quality, always store your apples in the fridge in their original packaging. They will last longer than if left out in a fruit bowl.

So there you go simples!

But what if you bought them loose with no packaging? F Do you put them in a fruit bowl as I have been doing?

Well if that is how you have been storing apples you need o stop! gardeners. com also agree the fridge is the best place and if you don’t have the original bag then …

cover the apples with a damp paper towel. Don’t store other vegetables in the same drawer, because apples give off ethylene gas, which can speed the decay of neighboring produce.

 

storing apples in baskets

 

5 More Food Storage Mistakes you Need to Stop Making Right Now

Whether you’re a conscious consumer or just someone who’s practising frugal living, you know how important it is to reduce food waste as much as you can. That’s why we have looked today storing apples correctly. You might be taking all the steps necessary to ensure that your perishables are in the refrigerator, and might want to maximize the shelf life of your foods, but is it really working?

It turns out, you could be making certain big food storage mistakes, and you might not even be realizing it. Read on to discover some of the most common mistakes most people make while storing food.

 

Storing Them Uncovered

Storing your foods uncovered and unsealed is one of the biggest mistakes you could make, especially if you’re not planning on using those particular foods for the next few days at least. Make sure everything you put into your refrigerator is covered- with a lid or at least with a cling wrap.

 

Using the Wrong Storage Containers

Yes, you read that right. Storing foods in oversized containers and leaving too much space on the top can speed up the spoilage of food inside. The same goes for overcrowding food in containers- avoid doing that too, because any residual moisture in there will initiate decay of food. Try to have just a teeny bit of headspace in the container whenever you’re storing food.

 

Storing Food Before it Cools Down

This one’s a big mistake meal preppers often make. In the hurry to get things done quicker, you might just lid that container of piping hot meal and put it in the refrigerator. Well guess what? Now the foods you’ve stored beside it will receive that residual warmth, and it might induce bacterial growth and cause food spoilage faster.

 

Storing in the Original Packaging

Certain foods that you pick up from the supermarket- the meats and cold cuts in particular, come cling wrapped. Our first instinct usually is to just pop them in the freezer as soon as you’re home, but that’s another big mistake. You might not notice, but there might be holes in the wrapping material, or it could be coming loose, and that little exposure to air could initiate spoilage faster than you’d believe.

Make sure you add an additional layer of packing before you put those cuts in the freezer.

 

More Food Storage Tips – Refrigerating the Wrong Foods

This one may come as a surprise, but not all foods need to be dumped into your refrigerator for them to stay fresh and edible for a longer period of time. Foods like tomatoes, melons, citrus fruits, onions and potatoes can stay fresh outside, and don’t need refrigeration at all. In contrast, certain others like peaches, avocados, pears and nectarines need to be stored at cooler temperatures to prevent over-ripening.

 

I do hope you have found this post on storing apples and other food really useful. Do you have any food storage tips to share?