We tell how to save garlic for a long time in the conditions of the apartment: to link braids, fold into the bank, fall asleep with salt and prepare for storage in the refrigerator.
Garlic add to vegetables and meat dishes, prepare sauces and seasonings with them. It is not only tasty, but also very useful. Therefore, the hostesses are trying to harvest more garlic heads. We will figure it out how to store garlic properly at home.
All about the storage of garlic
How to prepare garlic headsSix ways to keep garlic
- in Kososh
- in a glass jar
- In a refrigerator
- in the stone salt
- in sawdust
- in paraffin
What to do with backpit specimens
How to prepare heads for storage
Store for a long time will only be correctly removed and prepared vegetables. If they are bought in the market or in the store, it remains only to hope that they were collected on time. Gardeners should know signs indicating that culture is ready for cleaning. There are two varieties of garlic: spring and winter. They differ in landing and ripening time, on footing and storage time.
The spring vegetable is planted in the spring, remove it in the late summer and early autumn. It is characterized by plenty of small or medium in the size of the teeth. Well stored, often lies until the next summer. Winter culture is planted in autumn. By July, she already matures. These are large heads with a small amount of teeth. They are stored not very good, maximum until winter. This should be known and not confused by spring and winter varieties.
After harvesting, the harvest is dried in a well-ventilated room or right on the beds, if the weather allows you to do it. Plants are laid out in one layer, preferably under the sun. After drying, the leaves cut off so that the root neck is 40 mm long. If it is planned to store in braids, trimming is not carried out. Then remove the excess husk, but do it carefully, so as not to damage the protective scales.
At the last stage, the roots are cut. The heads prepared in this way are laid in the cool room for another week. Before this heads sort. Carefully examine each. All copies with signs of rot or diseases are rejected, with damage, even insignificant. In properly prepared for the storage of the culture of smooth without empty, cloves, scales dry, rustling and brittle. There are no spots on the surface.
Purchased vegetables are prepared almost the same. The product from the store is cleaned and cut is not necessary, the one that the market may have to trim and remove contaminated scales. Then still drown. After that, he is ready to bookmark.
How to keep garlic in an apartment
The preservation of the crop depends on the conditions in which it is stored. Vegetable is unpretentious, however, some rules must be followed. The heads are equally well stored in the coolness and at higher temperatures. Specialists advise the first six months to keep a spring culture in warm at 18-21 ° C. Then gradually reduce temperatures up to 4 ° C. In such conditions, she will fly another 1-2 months.Winter grades do not save for so long. They are immediately laid in a cool place. The temperature is optimal for them - about 2 ° C. So culture breaks three, a maximum of four months. Humidity is important for both varieties. With low, they will start losing moisture and dying. Highly dangerous appearance and development of rot. The optimal is considered to be 50-70%. Garlic harvest "does not like" light, it is better to lay it in a dark place. We list the proven techniques, how to save garlic for the winter.
1. In Kosah
Old "Dedovsky" way to keep garlic heads. After drying, the leaves do not need to cut, of them will be placed. First take three garlicity, they begin to weave the usual braid from their leaves. Gradually, the rest of one walves. It turns out a beautiful braid, which will not only save vegetables, but will decorate the kitchen. The length of the braids can be any, as a convenient hostess. Hang it to the ceiling or to the top of the wall in a cool dark place. In modern interpretation instead of weaving, old tights or stockings use. They laid the harvest, hang to the ceiling.
2. In the glass jar
Before booking, the container must be prepared. It is washed with soap and sterilize, as for home preservation. It is necessary to destroy the pathogenic microflora. The well-dried container is laid with garlicity. You can pre-disassemble them to the teeth to go more. It is impossible to clean from scales! In the recommendations, how to store garlic in a glass jar, advise to close the container by kapron covers. You can do without them. Filled containers put in the coolest place in the kitchen.
3. In the refrigerator
The best way to save winter varieties. Sorted and dried instances are folded into packets from paper, and small cardboard boxes are suitable. Clean them in a vegetable container into the bottom of the refrigeration compartment. Use plastic bags or containers can not. Vegetables in them are puments.
Skin varieties are not stored. They are placed in the refrigerator in purified form and just for a while. In this case, they are folded into containers from food plastic or hermetically closed polyethylene packages.
4. In the stone salt
Many people are wondering how to store garlic in a bank with salt. First prepare the containers. Do it the same as when bookmarking in banks. At the bottom of the packaging fall asleep a small layer of salt. It is advisable to take a large grinding powder. On top of a tight in one layer, cloves or heads are laid. Fall asleep salt, then barely put the garlic. So fill all the container. The latter fall asleep the salt layer. Its height should be 30-40 mm. Can be replaced with a salt of flour. In this case, everyone is done similarly. Store closed containers in a cool place.
5. in sawdust or ash
Garlic is saved for a long time in sawdust. To do this, take a cardboard box or a fine weaving basket, otherwise small particles will fall out of it. Speakers fall asleep on the bottom, it is better that they are from coniferous trees. On top of them lay a layer of vegetables. Abundantly, shock sawdust, laid garlicity. So before filling the box. The last layer is sawdust. Instead, you can take oven ash, it also keeps the crop well. However, it is taken only in the case when confident in the safety of the product. In the ash should not be remnants of burnt plastic and other waste.
6. In paraffin
The essence of the technique in the hermetic packaging of each head. For this dissolve paraffin to a liquid state. Carefully dip each copy into it, give drain over the excess. Lay out on the substrate, give to frozen. It turns out a hermetic "cocoon" from paraffin, which does not allow vegetable to deteriorate. Similar option - wrapping with a food film.
What to do with the pitched heads
Sorted slightly pitched instances can be recycled. The easiest way to put them in food first, until they deteriorated. But if such garlic is much, it is recycled otherwise. The first way is drying. The cloves are cleaned of husks, cut into thin plates. The obtained slots are unfolded for drying. Dried plates are crushed into powder. You can do it in a mortar, crowded with a brush or in any other way. Garns powder is cleaned into a tightly closing capacity, used when cooking.
You can do otherwise. Purified cloves are placed in a jar, poured with any vegetable oil. With the need to get vegetables. When they are completed, the flavored oil is not poured. It is well suited for salads.
And one more processing method. Purified cloves are crushed with a blender or meat grinder. The resulting garlic paste is laid out on small tanks, covered with a lid, stored in the refrigerator. These techniques are good not only for processing substandard instances. So it is possible to recycle all the crop so that the whole winter is commeromed with a fragrant and useful product.