ripening
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4 Ways to Preserve All Your Tomatoes at the Same Time
In the most ideal world, you would process all your tomatoes in one weekend. Save the miserable task of heating up the kitchen, burning your fingers and being endlessly on your feet for one or two days where you can wrangle everyone you know into helping, or at least binge-watch an entire season or two…
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The Smartest Way to Keep Avocados Fresh for Up to a Month
Buying avocados is always a bit of a crapshoot: They tend to ripen at unpredictable intervals, with that fleeting moment of ripeness coming and going before you have a chance to eat them. Sure, you can freeze them, but that does mean a change in texture, which might not always work for what you want.
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Store Your Pineapples Upside Down, and Other Surprising Ways to Keep Your Fruit From Spoiling
Though it’d be nice, there’s no one-size-fits-all storage methodology to maximise the freshness of different fruits. Some need to be cloaked in a cocoon of temperate air; others thrive when they’re stored below 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius). Some care and storage is obvious (don’t leave berries to rot at room temperature), others, less…
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Stop Trying To Force Avocados To Ripen And Let Time Do Its Job
Look, I am obviously a big fan of shortcuts, but there if there is one thing we as a society need to give up on, it is the expedited ripening of the avocado. This isn’t just like, my opinion, man; Cook’s Illustrated feels the same way.