This Is A Trick That Every Home Cook Can Use
For those who love to cook at home, we all know that onions, garlic and shallots are essential for flavor in most dishes. The only thing worse than opening one's fridge to see that there aren't any vegetables, is to open the fridge and see that they have went bad.
Nothing Is Worse Than Not Having Some Fresh Garlic, Shallots Or Onions To Use
Most people either store their vegetables in the fridge and others store them in a dark place. However, what we found out is that both of them are wrong and are making them ripen faster.
This little trick, we're about to show you, has been around forever. Actually my grandmother showed me this and it works like a charm.
When you use this method they last a long longer, don't sprout too early and will stay nice and crispy. This hack is particularly helpful now because of the approaching holidays where it seems I always need these ingredients on hand fresh.
To Find Out How We Keep Our Veggies Fresh & How To Properly Store Them, Please Head On Over To The Next Page…
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Take a lunch bag and punch holes down both sides and down the middle …put onions, garlic or shallots in and fold down about three times place a paper clip on top and store in a cool dry place with air circulation they will keep for a long time.
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Thanks my grandmother would hang them up by the tops to dry out and then storenin the cellar . we had onions all winter
After you put them in a brown bag with holes, do you keep it in refrigerator?
Cannot see this.
Why do they take so much space to get to the point.
no cool, dark, dry
difficult to keep things in FL…too hot…found only way is to refrigerate.
They can sure be kept longer than that. You pack them so they don’t touch each other, and keep them cold. It’s that simple.
Keep in cool dry place
We put ours in pantyhose and strap them with breadties so they don’t touch hang them in basement then snip them off as needed!!
I’ve been doing that for years. It’s nothing new. Onions never go in the refrigerator, unless one is cut. Then I wrap it in a paper towel and put it in the crisper.
Basically, keep them in a brown bag with wholes punched in it, cool dry place… And don’t keep the onions and potatoes near each other. Plastic bags will accelerate aging, no air circulation.
My kitchen is not big enough to have all this stuff on the counters!! I buy a small amount, put them in the fridge and use them quickly. I live in So Fla, I keep so many things in the fridge!
My onions last for months in my fridge.
Takes too long to tell me
Less crying, if you keep your onions in the fridge
Right! Plastic bags make moisture and they would rot quickly. I heard about not placing onions and potatoes together years ago too.
With do many convenient to read tips , I NEVER go to a third page
You have to scroll through 3 pages for that?
This works
Oh yes
In a nice basket on the table works fine !
I keep mine in the garage storage cabinet and my onions keep a long time. If they start to sprout. I clean them and cut them up into pieces and freeze them. Then I use them in soups eggs. Whatever. They r all ready cut up. I do the same with half an onion. I cut it up and put in my onion container
They grow on the bag though
My mom would store in a layer of sand, then another of onions, and so on. She also did this with carrots. Kept dark and cool in the basement.
This is good information
Do you know how hard it is to find paper bags anymore?
Mom put them in old hose women wear and hang them in the basement. Lasts a long time.
Onion get watery if you refrigerate … dont
Started doing this.
Click Bait times three. Good lord
I subscribe to buying 3-4 and using quickly. We don’t have cellars in California, we haven’t used nylons since the 90ties and we pay for paper bags cost at the grocery stores .25 soon to be .50 in January!
2 pages of buildup where they just repeated themselves over and over. Maddening.
if all grocery stores would sell them with the tops still on that in itself would make them keep longer.
also just a couple tips here, when buying any produce by the pound, ask an employee to cut off any part that you will not use. You should not be paying for garbage. Weigh whatever you buy, because some customers have a habit of opening multiple containers to get the best ones and fill their container the most they can and then close all the containers, meaning you could be buying a box of strawberries that says 16oz and getting 12oz. In our local grocery store, if I’m not happy with some berries in a container or say green beans, I ask an associate to get me better ones in the back. Blessing!
Store produce the same way it’s displayed in the store. If it’s in a bag under refrigeration, that’s how you should store it at home. Don’t refrigerate fruit and vegies that are not refrigerated at the store. Simple.
I learned the hard way this doesn’t apply to the desert southwest. Do you know what 10lbs of rotten potatoes smells like?
Any chicken liver recipes?
Not sue what you’re looking
“….to open the fridge and see that they have [GONE] bad.” Please. Not “went bad.”
cool
Cindy Howe
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A small gunny sack works just as well, been keeping mine in one for years
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Thank you
My father-in-law kept his vegies in sand in the basement where there was a dirt floor. And he kept them all winter, and were like fresh. He was a farmer of course.
This is how I store my onions and yes, they do stay fresher longer!
Karen Binns Allen Nancy Ervin