Don’t know about apples but avocado stays fresh vacuum sealed in a food saver bag. I don’t know about vacuum sealed in a jar but I bet it wouldn’t.
okay so i’m game - will get an avocado, put a quarter in a jar and another quarter in a bag and see which oxidizes first. (I’m eating the other half, in case you were wondering.0
should I freeze or just refrigerate the samples?
Paul, do it like you would for hops, so that would be freeze correct? If you want a faster experiment then in the fridge, faster yet would be room temp. I would want to know the time frame in the freezer.
I think the answer is going to be indefinite. These methods are both proven to eliminate oxygen from foods. I found a steak in the back of the freezer when I moved. It had been in there for over two years… Still looked like the day I put it in there. I would guess you’re going to forget about the avocado experiment in a few months and rediscover it in a decade and find a nice green avocado in both the jar and bag… You’ll then make a sandwich lol
The local name chef says freezers are great, but they are not time machines. I think you could find a difference after a few more years.
I highly doubt the foodsaver removes all oxygen from the jar.
Just do the experiment at room temp on a day off when you can check every hour.
I think this would be a better method.
I expect a full write up utilizing the scientific method.
I’d give the nod to using a food saver bag (what I do), but I’m sure a vacuum sealed jar would work too. The real trick for me is to reign in my urge to have 5 times the hops I can possibly use in a timely fashion. I think if you’re buying a reasonable amount of hops for your actual usage, either method (done properly) would give good results.
Hop prices can change. Remember how cheap they were years back then suddenly very expensive and scarce? It makes sense to stock up if the price is right. Come to think of it hops have not returned to the pre-2008 prices. I was paying 75 cents an oz. ;D
There is that too, Euge ! Lead to me having an a$$load of hops a few times.
My money in the great avocado debate is that the bagged version turns into guacamole.
I have 26# of hops in my freezer.
Damn you. Now I have to go weigh out my stash. And potentially buy more just to keep up.
+1000 - I somehow feel like I need to have every hop I could possibly need on hand at all times. In 1-lb increments, no less. Plus a few ounces of every new and experimental hop I can get my hands on. Better than meth, I guess…
You are correct sir!
We get bagged avocados at the supermarket. Oddly enough sometimes you find them in the meat section, but usually in the produce dept in the chilled area. I find them to be of poor quality, almost always under-ripe and rife with those nasty fibers one sometimes finds in an avocado. Barely fit for guacamole.
I suggest ripening and then bagging the peeled fruit along with one of the pits. Sticking a pit down into the guacamole will keep it from turning brown so quickly. That’s a trick for making the dip in advance.