How to store pears at home properly in winter

In terms of storage, the pear is not a very whimsical fruit, but a certain specificity of approaches is observed. Even the simplest and most common method of storage - in the refrigerator, requires compliance with a number of recommendations. Only if you do everything right, the fruits will save the whole range of useful components, which is appreciated by nutritionists, and the unique taste so beloved by adults and children.

Contrary to popular belief, finding a suitable place for storing pears at home is not difficult at all, and it concerns not only the winter varieties, but also the favorite fruits such as the Conference, Dessert, Georges Boucher and Abbot.

How to choose the right fruit for billets and tare?

The procedure for harvesting fruits from the selection of fruits begins. In this process, you need to consider the following points:

1. For storage in winter, pears are best suited not completely mature. They will reach the required condition already in the process of storage, which will significantly delay the time of damage to the fruit.

Advice: Specialists recommend selecting pears with stems for harvesting. Such an insignificant at the first glance guarantees fruit for several weeks and even months of freshness.

1. Preference is given to specimens with no evidence of damage or damage. Only initially dense, dry, whole pears can be kept for a long time at home.
2. Harvest needs to be harvested in dry weather. If the process was slowed down and the fruits survived serious frosts in the -15 ° C area, they can not be preserved in the fresh form, even winter varieties.

Special attention should be paid to the containers in which the pears will be in the winter:

• The pre-cleaned and fumigated wooden box is the best option. Plastic boxes and baskets are not able to provide fruits of similar conditions.
• Take care of the presence of air holes in the container. In a sealed container, the fruit will quickly rot. The bottom and walls of the box are laid with paper.
• Regardless of where the pears will be stored, in the basement or at home, capacity should be chosen voluminous. Places should be enough to lay fruit stems upwards and yet they do not come in contact with each other.
• Do not use too tall boxes, you can put fruits in no more than two layers, dividing them with sheets of paper, straw or sawdust.
• One container can not store products of different varieties.

Professional gardeners prefer to store pears in a special refrigerator with shelves. In this case, it will be correct to decompose the fruits on paper into one layer, the peduncle upwards.

Choosing the right place and creating optimal conditions for

Despite the fact that pears are difficult to attribute to moody products, there are not so many places to store them at home:

• Cellar or cellar. The room should be clean, without any signs of excessive dampness. It is recommended to pre-disinfect the room, fumigating it with sulfur vapor. The temperature and humidity should not deviate from the optimum. The location of other vegetables and fruits in the immediate capacity of pears is inadmissible.
• Separate unheated room. Houses it can be a pantry or a closet, you only need to create the appropriate conditions, and in winter you will have to cover up with a dark cloth that does not hold the air.

Tip: Harvest should be inspected regularly, removing spoiled fruit. Pears are much more sensitive than apples and very violently react to the proximity of rotten organic matter.

• Balcony. Here the fruits lie for about 2-3 months under properly created conditions and no negative temperatures. It is best to store fruit boxes, but in extreme cases it is allowed to use any packaging, most importantly, pre-wrap each pear with paper.
• Refrigerator. Even at home, storing fruit in the refrigerator is used last. The proximity of other food products and the lack of free space will adversely affect the state of the fruit even when creating the desired environmental parameters. Fruits should be packed on plastic bags with holes for air ventilation no more than 0.5 kg. It is desirable to allocate a separate shelf or tray in the refrigerator for them.

The main factors affecting the safety of pears are temperature and humidity. The temperature regime must be maintained within -1.0.0 ° C.In the refrigerator, this figure can reach +5 ° C.Humidity is recommended to be maintained within 85-90%.With the increase in the data, the decay of the products begins, with a decrease in desiccation.

Features of the approach to storage of winter varieties

Winter varieties have a number of features that need to be considered when storing them at home. They are removed from the trees not yet suitable for food. Store them best in a refrigerator or cellar, where they for a couple of months will reach the desired state and will be able to lie in fresh form for about 6-8 months.

You can store only dry fruits without any damage. Light on pears should not fall, they need to be protected with a dark cloth. This rule is valid even during the ripening of fruits.

Regardless of the variety of pears and the approach to storage, if a slightly rotten fetus is found, it is necessary to extract all the fruits lying with it in the bookmark and eat as soon as possible. For this reason, bookmarking is best done small, just a few fruits.