I am sick and tired of my salad turning to mush within 24hrs in my fridge. We love this fridge for everything apart from salad & some veg. Does anyone have any great ideas to remedy - a small box or anything which would fit inside this fridge to do the job perhaps
Belive it or not, a small coolbag works for salad if you're storing it in a 3-way fridge. I use one of the insullated chiller bags you get for 70p or so at the supermarket checkout, for carrying frozen food home. Cut off the rigid top section, put salad inside, squeeze the top edges together in one hand, blow in a llittle air to prevent the salad getting squashed (or use a punnet or lidless box) then hold closed with an elastic band. 3-way fridges get very cold at night, to the point of freezing, and this is what makes the salad leaves go to mush. The chiller bag provides some protection.
The real secret to keeping great salad as well as the bag is a salad spinner ,it takes all the water out which is what kills your salad leaves.Keep an eye out for them on the car boot sales,I got a brand new one for £1.We used them all the time when I had a restaurant.
I find that by buying fresh salad, so a lettuce, not bagged leaves I just keep it at ambient temperature, ditto with veg. There isn't very much that needs to be cooled. There is never enough room in our fridge for salad!
Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 13/4/2010
Belive it or not, a small coolbag works for salad if you're storing it in a 3-way fridge. I use one of the insullated chiller bags you get for 70p or so at the supermarket checkout, for carrying frozen food home. Cut off the rigid top section, put salad inside, squeeze the top edges together in one hand, blow in a llittle air to prevent the salad getting squashed (or use a punnet or lidless box) then hold closed with an elastic band. 3-way fridges get very cold at night, to the point of freezing, and this is what makes the salad leaves go to mush. The chiller bag provides some protection.
Great tip! Thanks
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