How to keep fresh strawberries

Just taken from the garden strawberries, if it is properly stored, will last a week refrigerated. But no one knows how long you waited berries on the counter. Below - some life hacking in which strawberries will last a couple of days longer.

1. Choose fresh berries

Storing food begins with the purchase. When you choose strawberries, berries, inspect themselves and the capacity in which they are stored. If strawberries darkened, became soft, and on the walls of the box were pieces of flesh, the fruit has already begun to deteriorate. Even a few berries with mold - a sign of stale product.

When you collect the strawberries with their own beds, remove completely reddened, but more hard berries, instead of waiting until they are softened.

2. Fingering strawberries immediately after purchase

Even if you really want to put a box in the fridge and get it, only to pour berries cream, you need to make an effort and go through all the berries after purchase. In the purest, the most recent batch of berries from the store can find a couple moldy. You need to get rid of them immediately, otherwise this fly in the ointment will spoil the whole barrel of honey.

The same applies to products stored near: mold perishable strawberries, so keep in the refrigerator only fresh fruit.

3. Choose the right container for storage

A good package strawberries stay fresh longer, and good packaging for berries - is a box made of durable cardboard or wood with holes for ventilation. It can come and plastic, but it should also be to make a hole. The thinner layer of berries, the longer they prolezhat in the refrigerator. Flipper layers strawberry paper towels so that they absorbed the excess moisture.

4. Do not wash the berries all at once

Strawberries should be washed just before you are going to eat it. If you leave the berries are wet, they deteriorate quickly, so put water treatments before decide to use strawberries. When you need to keep it clean berries, after washing place them on a paper towel and allow to dry.

5. use vinegar

A mixture of water and vinegar helps remove bacteria from the surface of the fruit is better than just water. But this method should be used only in the event that one party was a lot of spoiled berries: if the benefits of treatment will be higher than the damage from excess moisture.

Make a solution by mixing vinegar with water in a ratio of 1: 3. Process of nebulizer berries or rinse, gently rubbing each berry. In any case, do not forget to dry the strawberries on a paper towel.

6. Store berries in a special compartment of the refrigerator

In the past few years, nearly all refrigerators are manufactured with special compartments where the temperature does not exceed 2 ° C. That's where you need to put the berries.

7. freeze strawberry

Many are unhappy with this method, because after defrosting berries crawl and turn to mush. To avoid this, send in the freezer only strong berry and only after remove the leaves, stems and dry the strawberries after washing.

If freeze strawberries whole approach to the creative process. For example, dip fruit in melted chocolate or yogurt before freezing.

Follow certain rules: to berries preserved beautiful shape, first lay them one by one (for example, on a cutting board), and then interspersed in bags or boxes. The packages must be the place to strawberries does not turn into an icy lump.

8. Freeze strawberry puree

If berries are not withstand frost tests, and eat them right now does not work, do not resist the circumstances. Make mashed potatoes, and it is already send in the freezer. Then you can add crushed berries in smoothies or make them filling for pies.

9. defrost properly

Do not place the berries in a microwave oven or under a stream of water, so they are guaranteed to be softened. Let them thaw in the refrigerator and eat until they contain ice crystals. Completely thawed strawberries still loses its shape.

10. Save the strawberries in sugar syrup

It is a reliable way to keep the berries, but, in fact, you will almost jam. 800 g of berries need 400 grams of sugar and three cups of water. Wash the strawberries and dip it for 30-60 seconds in boiling water. Then shift into sterilized jars. Pour boiling syrup of water and sugar, sterilized, close the lid.

11. Pour strawberry pectin syrup

This is not the most common way, because the pectin powder rarely stands on the shelves of convenience stores. But you can buy it. Pectin - a natural stabilizer, most often it is produced from apples. The sterile jars fold clean the berries and pour them prokipyachonnym and cooled down pectin syrup (Preparation of the proportions vary depending on the manufacturer, so follow the instructions on packaging). Strawberries do not become too cloying and preserve the natural flavor, but not for long - so conservation is not too reliable. The pectin fruit can also be frozen for greater safety.