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- 7 hours
u need to boil them to not risk getting shit like salmonella lol
not for me
- 6 hours
Damn, I don’t think I knew this. I guess I kind of thought that the temperature killed any bacteria/parasites, but apparently it only makes them go dormant.
- billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
I just freeze them when I get them. I’m just making smoothies so it doesn’t matter much.
if you’re going to eat them within the week a quick rinse under the water should be fine.
if you need them to last longer, fill a large mixing bowl with water and vinegar. preferably a 15% mix with vinegar. let them sit and soak for about 10-30 minutes(dependant on how vinegary your wash is). pick the bad ones out qmd either eat or toss them. stir them around gently to agitate the dirt off them.
strain, and place on paper towels to dry. cover them! if you don’t cover them, bacteria and mold spores in the air will stick to them and only shorten your shelf life.
its best if you can refrigerate them immediately and is easier if you use a baking tray.
once dry, store them in a vented fruit container(helps with off gassing). the goal is to keep them dry, cold, and ventilated.
following these steps I’ve had them last 3-5 weeks before going bad.
I figured this one out. Rinse in cold water not hot, hot makes bacteria come out to prosper. Cold water hefty rise then close the container and tilt it all around to get excess water out. After that. Let them air dry for a while. Don’t put them back in the wet damp fridge. They now last about 2 weeks. Depending in original ripeness. Heat will ripen faster. Cold water preserves.
- 12 hours
Unless you are setting your AC to 40 degrees, your fridge will be dryer than your kitchen. The reduction in temp condenses the moisture out of the air. Cold air has barely any ability to hold moisture. 70 degree air has roughly 3 times the capacity for moisture than 40 degree air.
If your fridge is damp, something is wrong with your fridge.
- bearoftheisle@europe.pubEnglish10 hours
Agreed, fridge is not “wet and damp”. On the other hand, your berries will stay wet and damp much longer for the same reason, the cold air can’t hold much moisture so it evaporates much slower from the berries. So the message is the same, let them dry before putting them in the fridge.
2 daysIn my experience working at Walmart in Fresh and a local grocery store, Driscolls is often moldy in the truck it arrived at the store in before it even gets to the shelf.
- 1 day
Pro Tip: Never buy “fresh produce” of any kind from Walmart. Find a grocery store that has good produce and only buy there. It’s worth the extra money.
Fresh berries are hard to ship. And raspberries are probably among the hardest to ship 1000mile/kilometers and expect them to last. And most commercial varieties of berries taste have no flavor anyway.
The farms producing the berries are local; There is no excuse for Driscoll’s fruit to be moldy before it even gets to the store here when not one other producer has this problem. It isn’t traveling even 50 miles, let alone 1000. It is not a Walmart problem. It’s a Driscoll’s problem.
- 11 hours
Raspberries are very delicate. I’ve got maybe a very short 1/4 acre of wild raspberries growing about my yard. And I can tell you that when picked, you can start to see them degrade within an hour or two after picking. Often in less time.
Now I don’t know how many raspberries Driscoll picks every day. But by the time they get from the field and get sorted, washed, packed and boxed, and into proper cold storage that might take a good half day or maybe a full day. And then maybe the next day the wholesale grocer comes and gets their order and brings them to their warehouse where they sit in cold storage for another day or two before getting onto the grocery store shelf. It could be nearly a week after you have picked them before you buy them.
Supply chain delay can be a beeotch.
As much as I’d like better produce, I’m not driving another 1.5 hours round trip to get to the store with the better produce. Not everyone has easy options.
I get frozen berries, and they’re always fine.
- 1 day
Hey, I understand. I need to a 100+ mile round trip just to buy groceries. I still don’t buy fresh produce from Walmart because it doesn’t last long enough between the 3 or 4 weeks between shopping for groceries.
So if I can’t buy it from a good grocery store or grow it myself, I do without. I cannot afford the wastage.
- 2 days
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find the only package in the store that isnt moldy
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wash those fuckers with water and a small amount of vinegar
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dry them COMPLETELY (good luck)
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you may have bought yourself a couple days
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- 2 days
Never buy fresh berries that you aren’t going to eat the same day or the day after. Frozen berries are easy to thaw well and are more than good enough for most things.
- 11 hours
Or buy them freeze dried. Almost the same nutritional values as fresh.
- Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
I started getting oat/almond milk for this reason. Less land/CO2 usage, and they last longer.
- 1 day
Bravo, I’m one of the few people who probably got that reference. Well done.
I love fruit on my cereal, but that doesn’t take a ton per bowl. I’ve gotten to the point where I only buy blueberries because they last pretty well. I’m happy when I have people over and make a fruit salad because then there’s usually some leftover other kinds of berries.
- 1 day
Besides frozen fruit, freeze dried fruit is also nice for cereal as a non rotting alternative
Yeah, I often get cereal with died fruit in it, but it’s not the same as fresh by a longshot.
Funny how my brain recognizes Canadian packaging before I consciously register the bilingual labelling.
- 2 days
I’ve seen this brand in germany as well. Guess they are international.
I was talking about the packaging, not the brand. However setting my VPN exit node to a US location and looking up pictures of the product, most results do indeed have the same English-French labelling, funny.
- jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish2 days
Nope, I’m pretty sure it’s the exact same thing. Look more closely.
Packaged in Watsonville California even. lol
Lotta products packaged in the USA and shipped up.
Thry try harder to hide it lately…
