Do not relax immediately after the preparation of stocks, because ahead is no less important part of the work - their preservation. As with any product, dried fruits also have their own peculiarities and subtleties of storage, which we decided to talk about in this article. Regardless of whether you decide how to store dried fruit apples or more exotic fruit stocks, each of the recommendations below will be useful to you.
How best to store dried fruit at home?
The first step to understanding how to store dried fruit in an apartment or house will be to determine the storage location of stocks. Since the main enemies of dried fruit is moisture, choose a cellar or cellar as a storage facility will not work. Optimum will be any dry and not hot place in the apartment.
Where to store dried fruits at home we sorted out, but what is not. Storage capacity is the second guarantee that you can enjoy the taste of your stocks in the future. As a container for dried fruits, glass jars with hermetic lids, canvas bags and paper bags that can be reliably closed are ideal. In this case, each of the types of dried fruits should be kept separately from each other because of differences in the moisture index. So, if you mix more wet fruits with dry, inevitable mold formation.
If you dry the fruit yourself and are afraid that you could not dry them out enough, pour some salt or dried mint into the bag to protect the stocks from mold, absorbing excess moisture. If you can not save the dried fruits from the fungus, ruthlessly get rid of them, without even trying to reanimate - you yourself will come out more.
In order to properly store dried fruit at home, everything is clear, but what to do if stocks are staggered by their main enemies - insects. In this case
And finally, keep in mind that even if you are stocked with a bag of dried fruits, you need to eat them for a year, because the shelf life of any dried fruit, whether prepared independently or bought in a store, is 12 months.