If you love fresh fruit, you probably know just how fast your fresh foods can go bad when they are not stored properly. This can be really frustrating, particularly since fruit is so expensive.
You might be tempted to stop getting fruit for yourself and your family in order to prevent this kind of waste. However, if you still want to get your favorite fruit without worries about wasting food, your vacuum sealer can help.
You can vacuum seal bananas with ease using your vacuum sealer. This means that you will always have this delicious fruit on hand when you want it.
Bananas are actually one of the food items that store really well long-term when vacuum sealed, so if you are tired of trying to eat all of your bananas in a few days after you visit the store, this solution can be a lifesaver for you.
If you are ready to learn more about how to vacuum seal bananas for later use, you need to keep reading.
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How to Vacuum Seal Fruit
The first thing that you need to be aware of is that fruit stores best when it is perfectly ripe. Storing fruit that is too ripe and getting mushy or too green and not ready to be enjoyed will not be as successful.
You will have trouble with overly ripe fruit continuing to break down even inside its storage bag, and under-ripe fruit will still be under-ripe when it comes out of storage.
Make sure that you throw out over-ripe items that you cannot consume in time before they go to waste, and allow under-ripe items to have a few days to ripen before you store them.
Once the fruit that you want to store is at the perfect level of ripeness, you will need to decide if you are going to chop up your bananas or store them peeled and whole in your storage bags.
You will almost always want to be sure to cut up your bananas into smaller pieces so that they will thaw out more effectively when you take them out of the freezer.
It is also a lot easier to get a good seal on your vacuum sealed bag if you are not storing an entire peeled banana in the bag.
You will always want to peel the bananas that you are going to store since the peel will just be in your way in the storage bag, and it can also cause the banana to go bad.
How to Vacuum Seal Bananas
You will want to start out by peeling your bananas and cutting them up into the size that you want to store. You will need to wash your hands after you peel your bananas and then again before you store them in their vacuum sealed bags.
Sealing bacteria into the vacuum sealing bags will just lead to your stored bananas going bad even though they are sealed up. Sealing bacteria into the storage bags that you are using is always a bad idea and should be avoided.
Once your hands are clean, make sure that you have a level surface to work with as you seal the bags. You will want to keep the amount of banana that you put into each bag reasonable so that you are not putting pressure on the bag’s seals.
Bags that are too full can come unsealed after they are stored. Make sure that you mark the date that you sealed the package on each vacuum sealed bag. This will help ensure that you do not forget to use the oldest sealed bags that you have stored before newer bags.
Your bananas will keep for up to a year in the freezer when vacuum sealed, but you should be sure to check the seals on the bags periodically.
Sometimes the seal can fail on your vacuum sealed bags, and you will want to be sure that you can use bags that have lost their seal before the contents go bad.
If you are storing them in the fridge, your bananas will keep for about three weeks when vacuum sealed. You will want to verify the seals on these bags as well so that you do not waste anything that you have sealed up but which has had a problem with the seal on the bag.
How Long Should I Thaw Frozen Bananas?
If you have chosen to keep your vacuum seal your bananas and place them in the freezer, you will need to be sure to let them thaw at room temperature on their own. If you try and speed up the process, you will wind up with mushy, slimy bananas that have lost some of their flavor.
Planning a little bit in advance is necessary if you want to have access to your stored bananas that came out of the freezer without ruining them.
If you have stored your bananas in the fridge, you can simply unseal them and use them right away. They will not keep as long in the fridge, but you might not need to store them for months at a time and just want to have fresh bananas in a week.
Storing Bananas With a Vacuum Sealer is Easy
If you have been losing all of the fresh fruit that you buy because you cannot eat it fast enough, you need to start using your vacuum sealer to prevent food waste.
Bananas store really well when vacuum sealed, which means that you don’t have to lose half of every bunch you buy while they sit on the counter waiting to be eaten. Make sure that you clean your hands thoroughly before you start sealing up your bananas, and be sure as well that you mark the date on all of your sealed bags.
Using your vacuum sealer can make it much easier to keep all kinds of food fresh, even items that tend to go bad almost right away once you get them home.
Being able to store your bananas has never been easier, and you will prevent food waste with ease by using this method of storage.
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