Store carrots at room temperature

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Store carrots at room temperature




by other-energies » 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.
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by Christophe » 19/10/11, 19:55

I have the same problem (organic carrot exclusively for a few years)! Like everyone I believe ...

I don't know how the pros do to preserve: surely a misting at night!?!

Thanks for the tip of the cabbage leaf, I am testing as soon as possible!

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by dedeleco » 19/10/11, 21:46

Biannual carrots are naturally preserved from year to year in the ground in winter close to zero degrees with their rootlets !!
So simulating nature, on earth or earthy in the sand a few degrees with their unwashed rootlets alive they spend the winter to restart the following year to make seeds !!!

Peasants used to do this !!
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotte
http://www.jardiner-malin.fr/fiche/carotte.html
http://forum.aufeminin.com/forum/cuisin ... ottes.html
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gume

The garden carrot produces its edible part the first year and flowers the second.
Winter carrots harvested in October can be stored in the cellar, protected from frost, often in sand for a few months before they become woody.
my grandmother keeps them in a mixture of earth and sand, they keep for several months.
For other vegetables, in particular root vegetables (carrots, turnips) as well as leeks, conservation was practiced by setting in the garden.
To keep the carrots as long as possible during the winter, place them in a cool, dry and ventilated place but above all protected from frost.
The best way is to keep them in a box filled with sand and not wet.
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