If I don’t eat them immediately, I chop them and toss them in sugar. That stuff stays for a while and its great on everything.
Came here just to say this
I feel like there’s already a few rotten ones hiding when you buy them
I never buy Driscoll fruit (particularly strawberries and blueberries) for this very reason. When I used to work at a grocery store, half of the time the Driscoll fruits would be rotten already upon arrival to the store!
There are plenty of self-picking strawberry farms around here anyway. I can guarantee I have the freshest strawberries if I pick them myself.
Yep there’s so many moldy ones already. I took pride in my work and made sure not to put them out for sale, but cannot say the same about some of my coworkers
If you wash berries of when you get home with white vinegar, they will last so much longer.
Genuine question, how do you wash raspberries? I feel like they get mushy if I wash and leave them, so I do it right before eating them.
Whoa. I wonder why. Do you know the science behind this?
I read on it years ago, but I think it helps kill the mold spores.
“It’s not exactly that vinegar itself extends the life of berries. It’s the fact that vinegar is so acidic that it kills or inhibits the growth of a lot of the bacteria and fungus, including mold, that may grow on berries, which makes the fruit last longer,” explains Sean Brady Kenniff, EatingWell’s senior digital food editor. (By the way, this same technique should work to clean just about any fruit, not just berries.)
Does the white vinegar ruin the taste?
I did it a couple weeks ago after seeing this tip here. No after taste. They were fine for about 4 days but on day 5 every strawberry was covered in fuzz instead of just one or two.
The way I wash them is to place a colander in a bowl and fill with 50/50 lukewarm water and white vinegar.
Wash them off in that. Pull the colander out and rinse with cold water. Set aside to dry.
Made homemade liquor and embrace the hillbilly you have inside
Who told you about my inner hillbilly?
Who told you I let a hillbilly inside me?
fresh is nice. good dried too
you don’t eat all of them within 15 minutes?
Also, freezing and smoothies later is a thing
I got some amazing strawberries in the summer and forgot about them in the freezer for many months. They were a little freezer burned, but I turned them into a SENSATIONAL sorbet, with some glucose syrup infused with mint leaves, a little lime juice, and a whisper of xanthan gum. I use this double-bowl method for making ice creams and sorbets.
Whoa, sounds amazing, I’ll have to try it!
Storing them in a sealed mason jar actually has them last way longer.
It’s especially bad if you buy from Costco
Every Costco seems to have a mold problem. If you dont eat or freeze stuff from them that can get moldy expect it to within like 3 days. And this has been true of 3 states
My province seems to be fine when it comes to the lack of mold on Costco products
