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- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone.
And in this video, I'm going to talk to you
about how to properly store carrots.
Let's get to it.
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Anyway, let's get to storing carrots.
Okay, so how to store carrots.
The thing with carrots, it depends on where you buy them,
and what they have on them.
So, you know, basic plant biology:
There's the dirt, the level of dirt,
there's the root, and then there's the green part, right?
So when you're storing carrots,
you wanna remove that green part,
because you know, as you know with plants,
the roots feed the greens.
So, if you buy your carrots from the Farmers Market
or somewhere where they leave the greens on,
you want to immediately remove those.
It's really important,
because those green are gonna continue
to pull nutrients and moisture out of the carrots.
Don't throw them away.
You can actually eat 'em.
Just put 'em in a plastic bag,
wrapped up in a damp paper towel,
and just eat 'em within a few days.
You can work 'em into smoothies, pesto, salads,
they're high in fiber, they're high in nutrients.
They're really good for you.
So you do want to consume them.
You just don't wanna leave them on your carrots.
So once you have your carrots with the greens removed,
just go ahead and take them and put them in a plastic bag
and you wanna leave that bag open.
That's really all it takes.
Carrots are not too picky.
If you store them this way,
in the crisper drawer,
they can actually last up to,
I've had them last up for a few months.
It really depends.
You kind of can tell that the carrot is no longer good
once it starts to get a little bit slimy.
That's when you wanna get rid of it.
But stored this way, without the greens,
carrots will last for quite a long time.
The one thing that's really important
when it comes to carrots is,
when you're storing them in the fridge,
carrots are very, very sensitive to ethylene gas.
Ethylene gas is basically
kind of like a growth hormone, right?
So fruit and vegetables put off ethylene gas
as they're ripening.
The worst offenders are like bananas,
and apples, and avocados.
So things that produce a lot of ethylene gas
are going to make whatever they're next to,
that are sensitive to ethylene gas,
ripen a lot faster.
An example of this is, if you had an avocado
that was under-ripe,
and you put it in a brown paper bag
with an apple, it will actually ripen faster
than if you just had left that avocado on the counter,
'cause avocados are also really sensitive,
just like carrots.
So when you're storing your carrots in the fridge,
keep them away from things like apples and bananas,
and anything that puts off a lot of ethylene gas.
Stored it in a plastic bag in the crisper drawer
without the greens, carrots will last up to a few months.
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