Re: Best way to store fresh produce?


"Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward" <penelope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

I sometimes go to the farmers' market and come home with tons of fresh
fruit and veg. Within days the kitchen counters (where I leave the
stuff that doesn't fit in the fridge) are abuzz in fruit flies. What
do people do? What's an elegant solution?

You need to wash the fruit the instant you get home. Wash off fruit
fly eggs that came with your produce. Sorry to gross you out.

To get rid of flies, and I am not the expert, just this is how I did,
I put a glass of wine on the counter. They seemed partial to white
wine. I would actually use a wine glass.

I've been told Tupperware makes containers that can help the fruit and
veg last a lot longer - but I always thought you had to leave the
produce on a shelf so it could breathe?

Supposedly Tupperware uses some kind of magical plastic that makes the
stuff last?

I've never tried them, here's the link:

http://order.tupperware.com/coe/app/tup_show_item.show_item_detail?fv_item_category_code=18002

nancy


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