How to store dried apricots at home

To argue about the benefits of dried fruit is completely meaningless. After all, if you are looking for how to store dried apricots at home, it means that you are already well aware of all the wonderful properties. And you probably have a good supply of this sunny treat. Only now it is stored for you for a very short time.

Let's analyze the most common mistakes. It can be:

• storage mode
• a place
• container material
• deadlines and possible problems

If you follow all the recommendations, you can enjoy stocks of dried apricots all year round.

Storage mode and location

Well, who said that you can not save dried apricots in the refrigerator? Incorrect recommendation. If it is poured on a shelf, then of course. But after all, few people are so dismissive of such a valuable product. Therefore, it is possible to store dried apricots in the cold.

Moreover, it can be safely frozen! With proper packaging, quality dried fruits can lie in the freezer for up to 18 months. They wanted to eat, defrosted and calmly ate.

If the volume of dried apricots is too large and does not fit in the fridge, then a good place to store is an attic or a storage room. Good advice. Only now, how many can boast the presence of such?

And the worse the closet on the balcony or a box under the bed? Of course, not in bulk, this is a crazy idea. Or in the kitchen, a closed cabinet for groceries - than not pleased? Excellent storage space for dried apricots at home.

Just not close to the gas stove or radiator, it’s too hot there. In general, the optimum temperature should be no higher than + 15 ° C.

The level of humidity. Preferably not higher than 70%. Allowed short-term increase, but with the condition that the dried apricots will be used in food for several days. In order not to run around the house, measuring the humidity, we just remember: near the sink or stove, dried apricots spoil.

Council Why are boxes or lockers mentioned? Because it is desirable a complete lack of sunlight.

Container material

If cereals and other groceries can be stored in linen bags or plastic containers, then dried apricots do not like it.Rag bags remarkably pass dampness, and plastic perfectly gives off a “delicious” flavor. Plastic bags are also unsuitable for storage of dried apricots. They have a great mold. Metal oxidizes dried fruits.

So what to choose? Good old glass! The most ordinary glass jar with an airtight lid perfectly retains all the useful properties of dried apricots, its unique aroma and magical taste. In rare cases, you can use thick cardboard or wooden boxes, but for a period not longer than 30 days.

Ceramic container is also well suited for storing dried fruits at home. But only if tightly closed.

For the freezer, you can use aluminum food foil or special bags for freezing. They do not have micropores, so the sunny fruit will not stink of dill or fish.

Council Metal or tin lid is not very suitable, because it can give an unpleasant smell to the contents of the jar. But to the silicone or plastic lid, dried apricots are absolutely inert.

Terms and possible problems

The shelf life of dried fruits at home varies depending on conditions andpackaging. But, subject to the correct temperature and in a suitable container, dried apricots can be stored:

• Just on the shelf or on the table - 30 days.
• In a dark cool place - 6 months.
• In the refrigerator - 10 months.
• In the freezer - up to 1.5 years.

However, despite the firm belief that you have properly packed dried fruits, you need to get into your hamster stocks once a month. It is necessary to check not so much home eaten in your absence, but the presence of mold or bugs.

Yes, yes, not only people like to feast on fragrant dried fruits. At high humidity, the ubiquitous mold and strives to blossom lush clusters of your stocks.

If at least one spoiled fruit is found, it is necessary to discard the entire contents of the container. It's a pity, but the mold spores have already struck the rest of the fruit. Just while they are not yet visible. Do not risk health, throw out without regret.

Council To avoid global damage to dried apricots, arrange it for storage in small containers.

Bugs or moths of the mole, too, will never give up tasty treats. But, unlike mold, you can try to save the remnants of stocks.Choose unaffected apricots, put in the freezer for a day, then pour boiling water for an hour, then rinse thoroughly. It is better not to deposit such dried apricots again.

Council If, after all the manipulations, you are afraid to eat such dried fruits as food, then cook compote from them, use them for baking, or make a sauce for meat.

Useful recommendations

1. Do not store all dried fruits in one container. They have different humidity, and if there will be prunes, then everything will smell only to them.
2. There are recommendations not to buy large portions of dried fruit at once, and, if necessary, to replenish a small stock with a purchase in a store. The advice is very doubtful. Does anyone in the supermarket care about the good preservation of dried apricots? Hardly. And before the store shelves she was in what conditions? Who knows?
3. If you are lucky enough to find excellent dried apricots, purchase as much as possible immediately. At least at home you will know for sure - under what conditions stocks are stored.
4. When uninvited guests appear in containers, an alternative to boiling water will be an oven. Poured dried fruit on the baking traywarmed for 40-50 minutes at a temperature of 70-75 ° C and left to cool.
5. Despite the best efforts, have you noticed that dried apricots have become softer? So the humidity got to your savings. To prevent spoilage, dry the fruit in the oven. There also prokalite glass containers. After complete cooling of the dried fruit can be removed again in the bins.

How to store dried apricots at home? Observing all precautions and regularly stocking up stocks. And it is better not to wither over the banks, like Koschey over the treasure, but rather enjoy the unique taste of dried apricots.

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