How to keep tomatoes for the winter?

Summer is wonderful not only for warm weather, but also for fresh fruit and vegetables. Fresh tomatoes in winter can be purchased at the store, but the taste remains far from the taste of those juicy fruits that are available in the summer. In winter, pickled vegetables are used. But even in cold weather you can enjoy yourself with a salad of fresh vegetables.

Recipes on how to keep the tomatoes for the winter fresh, a little. Most often the following option is suggested:

• tomatoes need to be washed and dried on a paper towel;
• banks must be sterilized and dried;
• dry washed tomatoes are added to the jar, poured with alcohol;
• alcohol is ignited, the bank is quickly closed with dry sterilized metal lids, is turned over and covered;
• store such tomatoes in a cool dry place.

For this option, 2 ml of tomato will need 50 ml. alcohol. As long as possible to preserve the tomatoes helps the absence of oxygen in the jar, which goes to the process of burning alcohol. After the air is over, the fire goes out, and the tomatoes remain in the airless space.

But the results of such experiments are not always encouraging. Still, there are other ways of storing fresh tomatoes.

How to keep fresh tomatoes longer?

Here are some more tips:

1. To store for the winter choose thick-walled tomato varieties. There are specially bred tomatoes for long storage. For example, the strain Giraffe was created by geneticists as resistant to frost, but it turned out to be the sort for long storage. Also suitable are tomatoes Long Kiper and Masterpiece-1.
2. To keep the tomatoes longer, you need to choose for the workpiece quite green or half-ripe, the so-called milk ripeness, tomatoes.
3. Tomatoes are checked for integrity, carefully wiped off from moisture and stacked in a container one row next to the peduncle up.
4. Keep containers with tomatoes in well-ventilated, dry areas. The air temperature should not exceed 8-10 degrees.

Of course, to keep so tomatoes in the apartment is impossible. Firstly, in an ordinary apartment it is very difficult to create suitable temperature conditions for this, because people need warmer air in the room. Secondly, it is difficult to maintain the necessary humidity level in an apartment.

How to store tomatoes in an apartment?

If you want to keep tomatoes in the apartment, the following tips for you:

1. Preparation of a tomato. Tomatoes are also taken in green or half-ripe. Tails should be torn off and warmed tomatoes in water for 2-3 minutes. The water temperature should not be above 65 ° C. Warming protects tomatoes from late blight.
2. After heating tomatoes should be dried. You can put them on a towel and then wipe thoroughly.
3. Tara. It is better to use shallow drawers. They must be carefully cleaned, the bottom should be spread over with a newspaper soaked in vodka.
4. Before you put the tomato in a container, it should be wiped with cotton wool soaked in alcohol . Thus, all microorganisms that could damage the tomatoes are killed.
5. After the container is filled with one layer, another sheet of alcohol is placed on it, and the second layer of tomato is placed on top. The maximum possible number of layers in a container is three.

Another option involves wrapping each tomato in a newspaper soaked in alcohol. Each package is stacked in a box, also in layers. Then everything is peppered with sawdust or peat. For the apartment is not the most convenient option, because after removing the tomato from the box with peat may need cleaning.

Unfortunately, to keep the tomatoes for a long time in a room with a high level of humidity will not work. Both peat and paper absorb the moisture perfectly, and the tomatoes begin to rot in them.

Where exactly to store tomatoes in the apartment, it is best to determine yourself, based on the features of ventilation in the room. Most often, tomatoes are stored under the bed: so their integrity is not compromised, and humidity in this place is not high.