if you’re going to eat them within the week a quick rinse under the water should be fine.
if you need them to last longer, fill a large mixing bowl with water and vinegar. preferably a 15% mix with vinegar. let them sit and soak for about 10-30 minutes(dependant on how vinegary your wash is). pick the bad ones out qmd either eat or toss them. stir them around gently to agitate the dirt off them.
strain, and place on paper towels to dry. cover them! if you don’t cover them, bacteria and mold spores in the air will stick to them and only shorten your shelf life.
its best if you can refrigerate them immediately and is easier if you use a baking tray.
once dry, store them in a vented fruit container(helps with off gassing). the goal is to keep them dry, cold, and ventilated.
following these steps I’ve had them last 3-5 weeks before going bad.
I figured this one out. Rinse in cold water not hot, hot makes bacteria come out to prosper. Cold water hefty rise then close the container and tilt it all around to get excess water out. After that. Let them air dry for a while. Don’t put them back in the wet damp fridge. They now last about 2 weeks. Depending in original ripeness. Heat will ripen faster. Cold water preserves.
Blackberries are fine, yet raspberries rot right away.
In my experience working at Walmart in Fresh and a local grocery store, Driscolls is often moldy in the truck it arrived at the store in before it even gets to the shelf.
Pro Tip: Never buy “fresh produce” of any kind from Walmart. Find a grocery store that has good produce and only buy there. It’s worth the extra money.
Fresh berries are hard to ship. And raspberries are probably among the hardest to ship 1000mile/kilometers and expect them to last. And most commercial varieties of berries taste have no flavor anyway.
The farms producing the berries are local; There is no excuse for Driscoll’s fruit to be moldy before it even gets to the store here when not one other producer has this problem. It isn’t traveling even 50 miles, let alone 1000. It is not a Walmart problem. It’s a Driscoll’s problem.
As much as I’d like better produce, I’m not driving another 1.5 hours round trip to get to the store with the better produce. Not everyone has easy options.
I get frozen berries, and they’re always fine.
Hey, I understand. I need to a 100+ mile round trip just to buy groceries. I still don’t buy fresh produce from Walmart because it doesn’t last long enough between the 3 or 4 weeks between shopping for groceries.
So if I can’t buy it from a good grocery store or grow it myself, I do without. I cannot afford the wastage.
You have to eat them in store before you leave, it’s the only way.
Never buy fresh berries that you aren’t going to eat the same day or the day after. Frozen berries are easy to thaw well and are more than good enough for most things.
48 hrs. Tops.
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find the only package in the store that isnt moldy
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wash those fuckers with water and a small amount of vinegar
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dry them COMPLETELY (good luck)
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you may have bought yourself a couple days
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sniff sniff
THE MILK IS ABOUT TO GO BAD.
sniff
And there it goes…
I started getting oat/almond milk for this reason. Less land/CO2 usage, and they last longer.
Dang it Bobby!!
Bravo, I’m one of the few people who probably got that reference. Well done.
Funny how my brain recognizes Canadian packaging before I consciously register the bilingual labelling.
Pretty sure we have this exact same packaging in the US.
I’ve seen this brand in germany as well. Guess they are international.
I was talking about the packaging, not the brand. However setting my VPN exit node to a US location and looking up pictures of the product, most results do indeed have the same English-French labelling, funny.
Probably not with French on it.
Nope, I’m pretty sure it’s the exact same thing. Look more closely.
Packaged in Watsonville California even. lol
Lotta products packaged in the USA and shipped up.
Thry try harder to hide it lately…
I love fruit on my cereal, but that doesn’t take a ton per bowl. I’ve gotten to the point where I only buy blueberries because they last pretty well. I’m happy when I have people over and make a fruit salad because then there’s usually some leftover other kinds of berries.
Besides frozen fruit, freeze dried fruit is also nice for cereal as a non rotting alternative
Yeah, I often get cereal with died fruit in it, but it’s not the same as fresh by a longshot.
Buy frozen :)
Got some from a neighbor the other day… Left them on the counter… fuck.
I learned to make jam just so they wouldn’t be a complete waste.
They rot while you bring them home somehow.
