Bananas

[sherrardk]

Whats the best way to store bananas. I don't normally buy them (as I can't stand them) but have started to buy them for thing 2 for school and after only a couple of days they were starting to look a bit pathetic. I have bought some today and they a in a plastic bag - should I take them out? And are they best stored in the dark? Thanks.

[MarkRae]

http://www.ehow.com/h...03_store-bananas.html

[sherrardk]

Duh, didn't think to just google it. Thank you

[Borrheid]

Lakeland has a 'banana bag' which means you can keep them in the fridge .

[ummmm]

I buy them ripe and store them in the fridge. I store all fruit and veg in the fridge.

[boxtops]

I keep mine in the fridge if I'm not eating them quickly (I eat one every day) - the skins might go black over time but the flesh stays firm.

Lakeland do a banana-shaped box is for transporting it (there's nothing like putting your finger in a squishy banana in your briefcase...).

[heathfield]

Avoid Columbian bananas - they grow a variety that tends to turn grey and rot rather than ripen. Supermarkets buy them because they're the cheapest available. They're quite simply awful. Costa Rica and Dominican Republic bananas are better, but best of all are Windward and Leeward Islands varieties - though you'll have trouble finding them in supermarkets. In those far-off days when supermarkets sold ripe yellow bananas, bunches would have have been hung in a warehouse in cool and dark conditions for a couple of weeks before being divided up and placed on shop shelves.

[Bromsgrove]

We use a Lakeland banana bag. it is excellent.Sometimes if the fridge is full we pop the bananas in the bag and leave them in the kitchen, where they stay fresh for a while- longer than leaving them out