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Huh. I’m shocked at the storage temps for apples. I always heard they go mealy in the fridge. Also that you should store things at home like they are in the st

Huh. I’m shocked at the storage temps for apples. I always heard they go mealy in the fridge. Also that you should store things at home like they are in the store, and apples are never refrigerated at the store. Lots of stuff that says 50-55 F which is unfortunate because most people don’t have any kind of storage at that temp.

timeon 2y ago
> apples are never refrigerated at the store Maybe this is for untreated apples? But still those values for apples looks surprisingly low.
kqr 2y ago
> Also that you should store things at home like they are in the store, and apples are never refrigerated at the store. I would suppose the grocer's tradeoff is slightly different than yours. For them, it ought to be about trading shelf-life extension against refrigeration costs. For me, I'd rather extend the shelf-life of the apple even if it costs more to refrigerate it than it would to buy a new one, because I dislike throwing out food. I even freeze some produce that is about to go bad if I don't have an immediate plan for it.
topaz0 2y ago
I suspect that is for farmers or grocers that want to store a harvest for extended periods of time, even into the spring after fall harvest. I guess some amount of mealiness is hard to avoid in that case but it would be mitigated in a controlled humidity and gas environment as recommended. If you do all of those things you can bring them to room temp and expect them to last a few days on your customer's counter.
ceejayoz 2y ago
> Also that you should store things at home like they are in the store, and apples are never refrigerated at the store. They are, it's just long before they're put out on display. That's how they manage to have fresh New York state apples in February. They also pull out the oxygen: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/26/668256349/thanks-to-science-you-can-eat-an-apple-every-day https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/26/668256349/th... > The perfect combination of temperature and gases, which differs for each variety, allows apples to stay fresh for longer after harvest than if they were simply refrigerated. Commercially refrigerating apples only preserves the fruit for a few months before it gets soft and dehydrated. And just keeping them in your home refrigerator? They'll likely only stay fresh for a few weeks.

timeon 2y ago

> apples are never refrigerated at the store Maybe this is for untreated apples? But still those values for apples looks surprisingly low.

kqr 2y ago

> Also that you should store things at home like they are in the store, and apples are never refrigerated at the store. I would suppose the grocer's tradeoff is slightly different than yours. For them, it ought to be about trading shelf-life extension against refrigeration costs. For me, I'd rather extend the shelf-life of the apple even if it costs more to refrigerate it than it would to buy a new one, because I dislike throwing out food. I even freeze some produce that is about to go bad if I don't have an immediate plan for it.

topaz0 2y ago

I suspect that is for farmers or grocers that want to store a harvest for extended periods of time, even into the spring after fall harvest. I guess some amount of mealiness is hard to avoid in that case but it would be mitigated in a controlled humidity and gas environment as recommended. If you do all of those things you can bring them to room temp and expect them to last a few days on your customer's counter.

ceejayoz 2y ago

> Also that you should store things at home like they are in the store, and apples are never refrigerated at the store. They are, it's just long before they're put out on display. That's how they manage to have fresh New York state apples in February. They also pull out the oxygen: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/26/668256349/thanks-to-science-you-can-eat-an-apple-every-day https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/26/668256349/th... > The perfect combination of temperature and gases, which differs for each variety, allows apples to stay fresh for longer after harvest than if they were simply refrigerated. Commercially refrigerating apples only preserves the fruit for a few months before it gets soft and dehydrated. And just keeping them in your home refrigerator? They'll likely only stay fresh for a few weeks.