How to store garlic at home in the apartment - seven ways

Knowing how to store garlic at home, you can create a stock of this useful vegetable, take care of the safety of the crop from your infield. While in the vegetable department of the store you can always buy fresh and pickled garlic, it is convenient to have some stock in order to cook different dishes and pickles.

Before the owners of their own house does not stand such a problem as the storage of garlic, they can use the cellar or basement. It is there that it is easy to create the necessary temperature and humidity. But in a city apartment it is not easy to choose a reliable method that allows you to keep this vegetable as long as possible. And yet, there are many ways to successfully store garlic in winter in these conditions.

Which garlic should be stored?

If this vegetable is grown on its own backyard, it must first be sorted out, and first to separate the seed material for planting. The remaining heads are sorted into those that will be used immediately, and those that remain for long-term storage.

Not suitable for storage:

• overripe heads, scattered into separate teeth;
• heads with injured teeth;
• garlic heads with signs of rot, moldy.

Board This garlic can be used after picking spoiled heads, used for autumn pickles and marinades. You can store garlic in the refrigerator for a while in a sealed container to avoid the appearance of a characteristic odor.

The remaining selected material should be dried, pruned with a pruner or garden scissors roots and arrow at a distance of 2-4 cm from the shoulders. If harvesting was carried out in wet weather, then after drying, carefully remove the earth from the heads together with the upper covering scales. If you plan to store garlic in the winter bound in a braid, then the arrow is left at least 25-30 cm long. When buying this vegetable in a store or on the market, it is necessary to take healthy and whole heads without signs of disease.

When should you select garlic for storage?

To determine the timing, you need to know that there are two varieties of this vegetable: spring garlic and winter. Spring planting in the climatic conditions of the middle belt in April, and winter - in accordance with the name - put under the winter, in September-October.

Terms of cleaning for storage:

• spring - end of August - early September;
• winter - the end of July - the beginning of August.

In spring garlic the bulbs are white with a silky surface. They are smaller in size than those of winter crops, but they lie almost unchanged until the summer. Winter garlic is larger, it can be both white and purple. However, when a new vegetative period begins in early spring, the winter garlic cloves often sprout and lose value for use.

Methods of storing garlic in the apartment

In order to properly store garlic, you can use cold and warm methods. In the first case, he needs to create a temperature of 1-3 ° C, and in the second case, the temperature can be about 18-20 ° C.Conditions for storing garlic in an apartment in a cold way can be created only in the refrigerator, but a decent crop there simply can not fit. If there is a heated loggia, it can be placed there for a short time, but during the winter months you will have to use other methods.

• Storage in glass jars .Well-dried and clean three-liter cans are filled with garlic heads up to the top and covered with plastic covers. You can store them in the closet in the kitchen or in the corridor, preferably in a dark place.

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Banks can be sterilized by heating them in a hot oven, above a teapot or pots of boiling water.

• Storage of garlic in flour .In a similar way, cans are stacked dried vegetable, each layer is poured with flour. The top layer of flour should not be less than 2-3 cm. You can pour garlic with sawdust or onion husks.
• Storage in salt .Tanks for such storage can be and pans, and cardboard boxes, and wooden boxes. The essence of this method is that the garlic heads are not poured with flour, but with salt until the box is filled to the top. For this method, it is better to use coarse-grained rock salt.



• Storage in a garlic spit with uncut stems .By analogy with onion braids, you can also weave garlic. His stems weave together with twine, a thin rope. It is best to do this until the stems are over-dried and still quite plastic.

Council

Such a braid can serve as a decoration of the kitchen, best of all weave it from spring garlic.

• Storage in paraffin .The heads are covered with wax or paraffin, dipping the bulb into a wax melted on a steam bath or covering the heads with a brush. For 100 pieces you need about 300 g of paraffin or wax. Do not douse the head in a hot solution - the main thing that it was liquid. After that, the heads are dried before the coating hardens and is removed into boxes or boxes.
• Storage after impregnation with oil and iodine .By creating a barrier between the vegetable and the air, you do not have to worry about how to keep garlic until the spring. Each head is wiped with a mixture of boiled vegetable oil and iodine( 20 drops per liter) and spread to dry in the sun until completely impregnated.

Advice

Each head can be wrapped in a food film and stored in a refrigerator, the smell will not be felt there.

• Storage in oil .You can store the purified garlic in glass jars, in oil filling. Pre-refined vegetable oil must be boiled, cool it and pour cleaned denticles. During this storage, the oil acquires a garlic smell and is perfect for dressing salads.

Advice

To prevent oil rancidity, it is better to store such jars in the refrigerator.

Using such methods it is necessary to regularly monitor the safety of the vegetable, to sort through and remove the spoiled specimens. Using various methods, it is possible to store both winter and spring garlic at room temperature successfully.