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everyone I'm Jerry James Stone in
today's video I'm going to talk to you
about how to properly store radishes if
you do it correctly to last a really
long time and you get tasty radishes so
let's get to it so the first part that's
really important I think to understand
about storing radishes is to figure out
like kind like what's the biology what's
going on so when you have your bunch
your radishes you have the root part
this root part here and then you have
the greens on the end so you probably
remember this from like science class
but basically those roots are used for
like pulling in moisture from the dirt
right so when they're below ground
they're pulling in nutrients they're
pulling in moisture to feed and provide
that food that water that energy to the
greens so they can grow so these you
know these greens are really dependent
upon the roots so you have to remove
those greens because if you don't
they're gonna continue to pull moisture
and nutrients and everything else from
the roots and just dehydrating it and
ruining the part you actually want to
eat those radishes so what I like to do
first is just trim off the radishes so I
just I take my kitchen scissors and just
cut them off
now the thing is once you remove the
radishes don't throw away the greens you
can actually eat these third edible
they're actually quite delicious
I love chopping them up and putting them
in a salad you can make up pesto with
them you can put them in soups chopped
up and put a minimal omelet like there's
lots of things you can actually do with
them they're wonderful in a green
smoothie like you know fight food waste
so you don't actually have to throw them
away what you want to do is just take
them put them in a plastic bag put them
in the crisper drawer the thing is
they're only going to last for a couple
days
so you want to use them quickly because
they no longer have the raddest root on
there to pull that moisture and pull
those nutrients from so now they're just
pretty much ready to die so you can use
them you can't eat them just use them
quickly so we have our radishes I'm also
going to go ahead and snip off the
actual root part of the radish okay now
it's time to prep our radishes for
storage okay so to prep the radishes for
storage the what you want to do is you
want to take a bag that you can seal
like a ziplock bag you want to take damp
paper towels lay one down and then just
go ahead and put a layer of radishes
in the bag you want to cover that one
layer with another damp paper towel just
depends on how many radishes you have to
but it's going to add in another towel
cover them up add another layer of
radishes so the thing here why I'm doing
this radishes love humidity like I said
their root and their whole job is to
pull moisture from the dirt right
that's what root vegetables to it that's
what carrots do that's what beets do so
you're kind of simulating that with the
damp paper towel now you want it to be
damp enough to provide moisture but not
so damp that it's like getting water
everywhere so shouldn't be dripping with
water you want to make sure you really
just damp the towel and like really
wring a dry just add in the other
radishes and like the most important
part you want one more towel to put on
top so just top it off with another
towel
so there you go you have the radishes
they're inside the bag they're wrapped
these damp paper towels so next thing is
to remove as much air as you possibly
can from the bag if you want to get you
know retentive about it you can use a
straw and suck out all the air you don't
have to do that but just try to move as
much air out seal up the bag now the
radishes are ready to store radishes
along with being around humidity they
also really really like being cold
so store this way in the refrigerator in
the crisper drawer your radishes will
last up to a couple weeks this way it's
a great way to extend the life of those
radishes once you get them from the
supermarket so radishes are not very
responsive to ethylene gas that's really
important so what that means is ethylene
gas is basically a ripening hormone most
produce puts it off most produce is also
affected by it some more than others so
for example if avocados are extremely
sensitive to ethylene gas if you put
them in a bag with an apple because
apples put off a lot of that gas the
avocado actually ripen faster radishes
are not only not susceptible to it they
also don't put out a lot so you can kind
of store them next to anything and I and
that's all you need to know that's all
it takes
store radishes for up to a couple weeks
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