To ripen a tomato fast, place
with an apple in a perforated bag or a covered bowl. The apple gives off
ethylene gas that speeds the ripening process.
Remove tomato seeds
To remove tomato seeds, use a
spoon, a wooden dowel, or one of your fingers. Avoid squeezing the
tomato, or it will become mushy.
Wilted celery sticks
To save wilted celery sticks,
place them in a bowl of ice water for an hour.
Mushrooms for longer time
Use paper bags to store
unwashed mushrooms and place in your refrigerator's vegetable drawer.
They will stay fresh almost two times as long as those stored in plastic
bags.
Celery sticks frisk for weeks
To preserve the shelf life of
celery stalks for weeks, wrap in aluminum foil before placing in the
refrigerator.
