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How to keep cucumbers fresh for a long time
Cucumber — a great side dish and an essential component in salads, are a great snack and easy popular vegetable, has long ceased to be a rarity on our tables even in winter. Buy fresh cucumbers today is not a problem and in the dead of winter. Though not in season the price is too high, and the taste, as many claim, such is not the cucumbers, cucumbers from the garden. Perhaps that is why closer to the end of each summer season, we wonder — how long to keep cucumbers fresh? How can you maximize their shelf life? What varieties are suitable for this purpose and what to look for when choosing fruit? And probably the most important question — where to store cucumbers? The answers to these and many other questions you will find in this article.
Even the ancient Romans said: "tastes differ". So it is: some people love the fruits from the garden, others more to your taste of hothouse cucumbers, which can be purchased at any time of the year, others do not see between them any difference. Therefore, to argue about tastes, we are not going to convince someone and just talk about storing cucumbers.
How long you can store cucumbersto Keep the cucumbers fresh 5-7 days easily. To extend this to 3 weeks and longer, sometimes even until the spring, too, if you create special conditions for storage. But let's take first things first.
To begin the selection of cucumbers for long-term storage is necessary at the stage of collection or purchase. After all, stale or overgrown fruits for storage are simply not suitable.
For long term storage, the cucumbers must be:
Fresh:
The excellent keeping quality of fruits of cucumber dlinnoplodnye parthenocarpic varieties such as:
In the vegetable compartment:
Cucumbers will easily stored in the refrigerator (the tray is for storing vegetables) for about 3 days, and to prepare them for such a short-term storage is not necessary.
In cellophane:
The pickles are Packed in a plastic bag and the top, where cucumbers are open, cover them with a damp gauze. Packed in such a way the fruits can be kept fresh for about 10 days.
In the paper:
Wrap each pickle with a paper towel (cloth) and placing them in a plastic bag, you can keep fruits fresh for up to 2 weeks.
In water:
To keep cucumbers fresh for up to 3-4 weeks in the water. To do this in a bowl (or tray) is necessary to pour cold spring water and drop it in the fruit with the stem down. The cucumbers should be in the water not completely, but only at 1-2 cm to Store the cucumbers in the water is also needed in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator. The secret method is the following: as soon as the fruit will lose moisture, they will be able to compensate for its loss, absorbing water. Storage in this way it is better to take cucumber with crisp, dark green, slightly tuberculate skin. And in order to prolong the period of preservation of cucumbers in the water, it is necessary to change not less often than once a day.
In the white of an egg:
Fresh cucumbers must be carefully, not damaging the skin, wash, dry and coat with egg white. In the peel of cucumbers is formed of a transparent film which will prevent evaporation of moisture. Store cucumbers in a protein film in the fridge, on the shelf for vegetables.
Important. At low temperatures (below 0°C) cucumbers begin to soften quickly and they get the slime. Therefore, sending cucumbers for storage in the refrigerator, be careful that they are not near the freezer.
How to store cucumbers indoors
In a box or drawer:
Indoors, you can easily save the cucumbers for 2-3 days. To do this, they just carefully placed in a cardboard box, plastic tray, wooden box or paper bag. The room temperature should be within +10-15°C, with relative humidity of about 90-95%. In a dark room with the temperature about 6-8°C cucumbers Packed in a cardboard box, able to preserve the freshness up to 10 days.
In wet fabric:
Wrap the cucumbers in a damp cloth and store in a cold room (temperature about 6-7 °C), as necessary, moisten the cloth. So it is possible to preserve the freshness of fruits for about a week.
Important. Regardless of how and where you store the cucumbers, periodically, about every 3 days, they must to inspect, removing damaged and lost the freshness of the fruit.
How not to store cucumbers Packed in cellophane without access of air:
Cucumbers, tightly wrapped in a plastic bag or film, even in the fridge it will stay for about 2-3 days. Keep them that way longer, unfortunately, will not succeed. The fact is that without access of air cucumbers quickly "suffocating" and begin to rot.
Along with ripe fruit:
Any ripe fruit that emit ethylene, whether fruits (apples and others) or vegetables (tomatoes and others), store together with cucumbers can not. Under the influence of ethylene biochemical processes in cucumbers accelerated and they quickly begin to turn yellow and then become unfit to eat.
Unconventional ways to store cucumbers
There are many unconventional ways that enable you to store cucumbers for a long time. However, at what period of time — no accurate data. However, if you have the opportunity and the desire, why not try to use one of them? No wonder that some of these methods have been successfully used by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers who have managed without a refrigerator to preserve a perishable fresh products.
In the pond:
If near you there is a pond, river or any other natural pond that never freezes in winter, keep the cucumbers in it. For this fruits put in a fine bag, made of synthetic material, hung from below the load, dip it in the water and properly secured.
In the sand:
In the pottery layer by layer, fold the cucumber, sprinkling fruits are well washed and pre-dried sand. Close the lid and move to storage in a cool place — a cellar or basement. If possible, bury the container in a cellar in the ground. According to the authors of the method, prikopat cucumbers stored for a long period of time.
In the well:
In a clean, dry bucket, put the cucumbers, cover them on top of plain fabric and lower the bucket into the well so that its bottom just touches the water.
Cabbage:
Perhaps one of the most original ways is to store cabbage. To do this, cucumbers are planted between the rows of late cabbage varieties. As soon as the ovary, small cucumbers together with a whip on which they grow, carefully placed between the leaves of cabbage, as close as possible to the cobs. So they will grow along with cabbage, only this time inside of head. Storage cabbage head down in a cellar or basement. Say cucumber in cabbage can be stored till the spring. Have you tried to store cucumbers in cabbage?
With vinegar:
At the bottom of a clean, dry enamelware poured literally 3 mm layer of vinegar. Then into the dish set stand with holes so that it can be put cucumbers and they don't touch the vinegar. The fruits are placed on a rack in several layers, tightly closed container and put in a cool room. This way you can preserve the freshness of cucumber fruit up to 1 month. published
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Even the ancient Romans said: "tastes differ". So it is: some people love the fruits from the garden, others more to your taste of hothouse cucumbers, which can be purchased at any time of the year, others do not see between them any difference. Therefore, to argue about tastes, we are not going to convince someone and just talk about storing cucumbers.
How long you can store cucumbersto Keep the cucumbers fresh 5-7 days easily. To extend this to 3 weeks and longer, sometimes even until the spring, too, if you create special conditions for storage. But let's take first things first.
To begin the selection of cucumbers for long-term storage is necessary at the stage of collection or purchase. After all, stale or overgrown fruits for storage are simply not suitable.
For long term storage, the cucumbers must be:
Fresh:
- collecting cucumbers in your own garden try to make from time of collection until the silo has passed as little time as possible. The fruits that lie down for several days at room temperature, for long term storage to suit will no longer;
- when buying cucumbers at the market, pay attention not only to individual instances, but on the whole party. So, if the majority of fruits have wilted a little, to take such fruits are not worth it, they won't be lie, even if your chosen specimens seem fresh.
- the cucumbers must be clean and dry. Remember, collecting them in the garden or buying at the market;
- wash fruits before putting it in storage because the fruit has its own protection against decay.
- inspect the cucumber: the skin must not have any damage, otherwise the fruit will begin to deteriorate.
- for long-term storage are more suitable ground cucumbers with thick skins and not greenhouses;
- well stored fruit special classes: Kharkiv, Nizhyn and other.
The excellent keeping quality of fruits of cucumber dlinnoplodnye parthenocarpic varieties such as:
- Sadko
- Prosimy 40
- Nezhinskii local
- Nezhinsky 12
- Competitor
- Bush
- Parade
- poorly stored watery fruits with a thin skin;
- overgrown cucumbers. Perespevshey and yellowed cucumbers will lose all its useful properties and the ingestion is not suitable;
- will not be able to maintain and greenhouse varieties of cucumbers rapid maturation. Store these fruits except that 3-4 days. The only exceptions are those hothouse cucumbers, which are Packed in packages with carbon dioxide. For storage they should be placed in the refrigerator on the shelf for vegetables.
In the vegetable compartment:
Cucumbers will easily stored in the refrigerator (the tray is for storing vegetables) for about 3 days, and to prepare them for such a short-term storage is not necessary.
In cellophane:
The pickles are Packed in a plastic bag and the top, where cucumbers are open, cover them with a damp gauze. Packed in such a way the fruits can be kept fresh for about 10 days.
In the paper:
Wrap each pickle with a paper towel (cloth) and placing them in a plastic bag, you can keep fruits fresh for up to 2 weeks.
In water:
To keep cucumbers fresh for up to 3-4 weeks in the water. To do this in a bowl (or tray) is necessary to pour cold spring water and drop it in the fruit with the stem down. The cucumbers should be in the water not completely, but only at 1-2 cm to Store the cucumbers in the water is also needed in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator. The secret method is the following: as soon as the fruit will lose moisture, they will be able to compensate for its loss, absorbing water. Storage in this way it is better to take cucumber with crisp, dark green, slightly tuberculate skin. And in order to prolong the period of preservation of cucumbers in the water, it is necessary to change not less often than once a day.
In the white of an egg:
Fresh cucumbers must be carefully, not damaging the skin, wash, dry and coat with egg white. In the peel of cucumbers is formed of a transparent film which will prevent evaporation of moisture. Store cucumbers in a protein film in the fridge, on the shelf for vegetables.
Important. At low temperatures (below 0°C) cucumbers begin to soften quickly and they get the slime. Therefore, sending cucumbers for storage in the refrigerator, be careful that they are not near the freezer.
How to store cucumbers indoors
In a box or drawer:
Indoors, you can easily save the cucumbers for 2-3 days. To do this, they just carefully placed in a cardboard box, plastic tray, wooden box or paper bag. The room temperature should be within +10-15°C, with relative humidity of about 90-95%. In a dark room with the temperature about 6-8°C cucumbers Packed in a cardboard box, able to preserve the freshness up to 10 days.
In wet fabric:
Wrap the cucumbers in a damp cloth and store in a cold room (temperature about 6-7 °C), as necessary, moisten the cloth. So it is possible to preserve the freshness of fruits for about a week.
Important. Regardless of how and where you store the cucumbers, periodically, about every 3 days, they must to inspect, removing damaged and lost the freshness of the fruit.
How not to store cucumbers Packed in cellophane without access of air:
Cucumbers, tightly wrapped in a plastic bag or film, even in the fridge it will stay for about 2-3 days. Keep them that way longer, unfortunately, will not succeed. The fact is that without access of air cucumbers quickly "suffocating" and begin to rot.
Along with ripe fruit:
Any ripe fruit that emit ethylene, whether fruits (apples and others) or vegetables (tomatoes and others), store together with cucumbers can not. Under the influence of ethylene biochemical processes in cucumbers accelerated and they quickly begin to turn yellow and then become unfit to eat.
Unconventional ways to store cucumbers
There are many unconventional ways that enable you to store cucumbers for a long time. However, at what period of time — no accurate data. However, if you have the opportunity and the desire, why not try to use one of them? No wonder that some of these methods have been successfully used by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers who have managed without a refrigerator to preserve a perishable fresh products.
In the pond:
If near you there is a pond, river or any other natural pond that never freezes in winter, keep the cucumbers in it. For this fruits put in a fine bag, made of synthetic material, hung from below the load, dip it in the water and properly secured.
In the sand:
In the pottery layer by layer, fold the cucumber, sprinkling fruits are well washed and pre-dried sand. Close the lid and move to storage in a cool place — a cellar or basement. If possible, bury the container in a cellar in the ground. According to the authors of the method, prikopat cucumbers stored for a long period of time.
In the well:
In a clean, dry bucket, put the cucumbers, cover them on top of plain fabric and lower the bucket into the well so that its bottom just touches the water.
Cabbage:
Perhaps one of the most original ways is to store cabbage. To do this, cucumbers are planted between the rows of late cabbage varieties. As soon as the ovary, small cucumbers together with a whip on which they grow, carefully placed between the leaves of cabbage, as close as possible to the cobs. So they will grow along with cabbage, only this time inside of head. Storage cabbage head down in a cellar or basement. Say cucumber in cabbage can be stored till the spring. Have you tried to store cucumbers in cabbage?
With vinegar:
At the bottom of a clean, dry enamelware poured literally 3 mm layer of vinegar. Then into the dish set stand with holes so that it can be put cucumbers and they don't touch the vinegar. The fruits are placed on a rack in several layers, tightly closed container and put in a cool room. This way you can preserve the freshness of cucumber fruit up to 1 month. published
P. S. And remember, just changing your mind — together we change the world! ©
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