If you find that your bananas are going off far too quickly, people on social media are recommending a simple 'water' hack that may keep them fresh for up to 15 days
Sometimes, it feels as though you've only just purchased your fresh fruit, and you're already throwing it away - which can be seriously annoying, and feels as though you're throwing money down the drain.
Fruit such as bananas can go off seriously quickly, but rather than waiting for them to turn brown and mushy, there's a storage hack you can use to make them last up to 15 days - and it's seriously easy.
Rather than using clingfilm, which is said to be helpful when you wrap the stems up, people across social media have also recommended using the 'water' method - which is arguably much easier, and faster.
Trying the hack for himself, @that40yearoldguy said that he'd never done "a week-long test", but he wanted to try a banana hack "to see if they stay fresh longer."
He explained that he had six bananas, and he put three bananas into the water, placing them so the stems were fully submerged in the liquid - and then he let the other three just sit there without any intervention, explaining he'd "come back in a week or so to see what they look like."
After 12 days, he came back to the bananas to check on them, noticing that the bananas that had been left without the water were coming apart and soggy - even dropping to the floor when he got hold of them. Whereas the other bunch was completely intact. "Look how shriveled up this is", he commented, as he held up the stems of the bananas that hadn't had their stems in the water.
"Looks like it might help a little bit", he shrugged, and in the comments, people joked: "Banana bread time!" and "I buy bananas, forget to eat them, they go bad, then don't buy bananas for the next couple months or so. Then repeat the process."
The Express reported that reader contacted them, sharing the water tip, writing: "A simple and cheaper way of making bananas last longer is to immerse the stalk end in water. Ours keep for 10 to 14 days when stored like that. Rather than the three or four days in a fruit bowl on their own or on a banana hook."
Of course, cling film can also be used. One way to store bananas to slow down the ripening process is by wrapping cling film around the stems to trap the ethylene gas, and the most effective method is to wrap the stems of individual bananas instead of wrapping all of the stems together.
By wrapping these individual stems, there are fewer places for the ethylene gas to leak out because the stems are covered - and this means that the bananas will ripen more slowly.
Have you got any storage hacks? Email: danielle.wroe@mirror.co.uk
