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Apples are a great at storage. Some can be extremely hardy if kept in a mostly dry and cold place. It was one reason they became so popular: you could keep the
by jimktrains2 9y ago
Apples are a great at storage. Some can be extremely hardy if kept in a mostly dry and cold place. It was one reason they became so popular: you could keep them over winter in a root cellar.
This is how we get out-of-season apples. They basically get stored in refrigerated warehouses.
Granted not all apples are like this. Some become mealy pretty quickly.
- zzalpha 9y agoFor anyone reading who has an apple tree, quick correction: cold and humid. My crop easily lasts for 3 months in my storage fridge (and I don't take the time to sort them to properly eliminate bruised fruit, etc), but the key is cold and humid, not cold and dry.
- jimktrains2 9y agoAh, sorry, and I don't seem to be able to edit. I guess I always consider a fridge a dry place, but that's not really true the more I think about it.