Tips: Food Storage Tips

• Placing sugar cubes in cheese containers helps keep cheese mold-free. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Enclosing an avocado or banana in a brown bag containing an apple hastens ripening. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• To quickly ripen a tomato, put it with an apple in a perforated bag in a covered bowl. The apple gives off ethylene gas that speeds the ripening process. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Potatoes rot quickly if stored near onions, so keep them separate. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Buy large packages of ground round (5 lbs. or more) on sale and boils most of it, adding chopped onions and a few carrots and garlic powder to the liquid, (or whatever else is on hand). After it's cooked, usually about an hour, drain the beef and runs it through the food processor a little at a time to break it up, leaving in the carrots and onions. Bag in small freezer bags to have the perfect amount for tacos, sloppy joes, spaghetti, or any other recipes that calls for ground beef. The bags store stacked flat I the freezer. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Here's a fabulous wine tip: If you don't have time to cool your white or red wines before serving, add 2-3 frozen grapes in your glass. White grapes for white wine and red grapes for red wine. It will cool your wine and you will have a treat at the bottom of the glass. Mariann Nichols, Fort Worth, TX ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Store potatoes in a cool (not cold), dry place. Refrigeration causes starch to turn to sugar. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Baking powders lose strength over time. Store them tightly covered as moisture can cause them to lose their strength faster. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Freeze your marshmallows after opening the bag. They will will be as good as new when they thaw. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• If you store your onions in the fridge crisper drawer, you'll get less tears when slicing. GP Maksym, Vancouver, BC ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

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