Tips to keep your food fresh
You pay a lot of money for the food you buy at the supermarket, so you want it to stay fresh for as long as possible. Spoiled food is simply a waste of money.
Here are some tips from the editors at Consumer Reports:
- Keep eggs in the carton and put that carton on the middle or lower shelf. Those are the coldest places in your fridge.
- Whole tomatoes stay at room temperature. They get mealy and lose flavor in the refrigerator.
- Do you buy firm cheese, such as cheddar, Swiss or American, that's prepackaged? If so, take it out of the plastic, which can give it a bad taste, and re-wrap the cheese in wax paper and then tightly in plastic.
- Here's one than surprised me. The editors say it's OK to put ripe bananas in the fridge - it will slow down further ripening. The skins will probably get dark but, they say the fruit will stay good for up to 5 days.
- After you open a package of fresh mushrooms, store them in a brown paper lunch bag.
- Consumer Reports has this tip for keeping ice crystals from forming on ice cream: Keep the surface of the ice cream level and cover the carton with plastic wrap before you put the lid on.
Here are some tips from the editors at Consumer Reports:
- Keep eggs in the carton and put that carton on the middle or lower shelf. Those are the coldest places in your fridge.
- Whole tomatoes stay at room temperature. They get mealy and lose flavor in the refrigerator.
- Do you buy firm cheese, such as cheddar, Swiss or American, that's prepackaged? If so, take it out of the plastic, which can give it a bad taste, and re-wrap the cheese in wax paper and then tightly in plastic.
- Here's one than surprised me. The editors say it's OK to put ripe bananas in the fridge - it will slow down further ripening. The skins will probably get dark but, they say the fruit will stay good for up to 5 days.
- After you open a package of fresh mushrooms, store them in a brown paper lunch bag.
- Consumer Reports has this tip for keeping ice crystals from forming on ice cream: Keep the surface of the ice cream level and cover the carton with plastic wrap before you put the lid on.