How do you store strawberries correctly?
If you're as big a strawberry fan as we are, it's best to buy them from a local farmer or even go pick them yourself in a strawberry field. This is sometimes a little more expensive or time-consuming, but this ensures that you get top-notch berries for your money. Strawberries perish quickly due to their high water content and cannot retain their delicious aroma for long.
For this reason, when buying or harvesting, you should make sure that they have little or no pressure points. It is also important that they get enough air in their packaging.
Once you get home with your strawberries, you should take a closer look at them. It is common to find squashed specimens in the middle of a purchased package. With these fruits you have to cut away the bruises immediately. Otherwise, the fruit will spoil in these places and quickly infect the surrounding berries.
Fresh strawberries taste best the day you buy them. So if you plan to eat them on the same day, it is sufficient to store the strawberries at room temperature until you prepare them.
Tip: Wash your strawberries just before preparing them. Washing them causes the berries to lose their delicious aroma even more quickly.
Store strawberries in the refrigerator
If you can't eat your strawberries right away, the refrigerator is the ideal place to store them. Here, too, you should make sure that you place the strawberries in the fruit and vegetable compartment unwashed and in an airy outer packaging or, better yet, in a kitchen sieve.
The less moisture reaches the strawberries, the longer the shelf life. Strawberries last an average of two days in the refrigerator.
Tip: Place a plate under the berries or the sieve in the refrigerator. This catches the escaping juice and keeps your refrigerator clean.
Freezing strawberries
If you have bought more strawberries than you and your loved ones can eat in a timely manner, you can of course also freeze them. First of all, it should be said that strawberries in their traditional form are not designed to be frozen. After defrosting, they are usually quite limp and are no longer suitable as a delicious decoration for cakes & Co.
Instead, you could use them to make a delicious sauce. These can be frozen very well with our ice cube makers made of platinum silicone.
Tip: With our ice cube makers you can put the juice you get into many great shapes and, for example, add it to your drink months later. Looks good and is super tasty!
Cook strawberries
If you have a lot of fruit and want to preserve it for as long as possible, preserving strawberries makes sense. The shelf life of strawberries can be extended by around half a year using this method.
Our example ingredients: Preserving jars (screw-top jars or preserving jars), 1kg strawberries, 1l water and 500g sugar
The following 6 points explain step by step how to properly preserve strawberries:
Get preserving jars (e.g. mason jars) and clean them with hot water. Heat sterilizes the mason jar. Then let the clean glass dry. Remove the stems from the strawberries and wash them thoroughly. To avoid damaging them, you should wash them carefully in a bowl of water. Then drain well. Only take undamaged berries.
Now you need a cooking pot. Fill this with 1000ml water and add the 500g sugar. Bring the water to the boil and stir until the sugar has dissolved. Now carefully pour the strawberries into the saucepan and cook them for about 1 minute. Then fill the strawberries into the mason jars. Leave about 2 cm of space around the edge of the glass and then pour the sugar water into the glasses until the strawberries are covered (up to a maximum of 1 cm below the edge). Make sure that the rim stays clean and close the jars. Now take a large pot and put your mason jars in it. Fill this with water until your mason jars are ¾ full of water and bring it to the boil for about 25 minutes.
Done! Turn off the stove and let the saucepan and the preserving jars cool down. You can leave the boiled strawberries to rest for half a day and then store them in a cool place.
The LURCH team wishes you a lot of fun with your strawberries and a good appetite!
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