Store carrots at room temperature
published: 19/10/11, 19:44
Hi,
If you do not have a cellar worthy of the name, we tend to put the vegetables in the fridge and the carrots are quick to wilt even if they are in the beer bin (I mean vegetables).
You are going to say that I am anti-fridge ... This is not the case but with a view to limiting the use of energy as much limiting the volume of food that we put in the fridge.
The idea is to cover the carrots with one of the cabbage leaves that you remove because it is a little withered. The slight dampness of the leaf seems to protect the carrot from rotting and softening. I could not explain why but we have experienced it here and the carrots (untreated) keep for more than a week and a half while the others (in the fridge) were already soft after five days.
If you do not have a cellar worthy of the name, we tend to put the vegetables in the fridge and the carrots are quick to wilt even if they are in the beer bin (I mean vegetables).
You are going to say that I am anti-fridge ... This is not the case but with a view to limiting the use of energy as much limiting the volume of food that we put in the fridge.
The idea is to cover the carrots with one of the cabbage leaves that you remove because it is a little withered. The slight dampness of the leaf seems to protect the carrot from rotting and softening. I could not explain why but we have experienced it here and the carrots (untreated) keep for more than a week and a half while the others (in the fridge) were already soft after five days.