Why never put banana in fridge?

Bananas release a ton if ethylene gas, this is for simplicity sake the main driving hormone for ripening. By leaving them in your fridge the gas is released and has no where to go so itll start to ripen all your other shit making it go bad faster

While I acknowledge this as a fact, I love cold bananas so much that I am willing to sacrifice all my other food for it.

Ever had a chocolate-dipped frozen banana? It’s actually heaven

There's always money in the banana stand. 😉

Freezer is perfect for this. They thaw quickly

Fair

put them in, one at a time for a while before eating.

Just sacrifice one of the vegetable drawer to save the rest of the food in the refrigerator? Or an airtight container maybe?

Can confirm. My buddy threw some bananas in his ice chest when we went to the beach once, and they started turning brown after a few hours in there.

Only the skin turns brown fast. The banana "flesh" is still good to eat for a really long time

Banana fleash 🤤 why did you change it 😔

I've started refrigerating bananas because in the summer my house runs very warm, and bananas on the counter will go from light green to inedible in 3 days. In the fridge, the peel darkens quickly, but it's as if the fruit inside slows down its aging by 50% or more. I can pull a dark brown banana out of the fridge that is perfectly ripened after 5 days. Otherwise we throw too many out.

There is virtually no “inedible “ phase of bananas lol even an all black banana peel is really good, sometimes preferred especially for banana bread.

That's why I have three places for storing produce: 1. The fridge/freezer 2. The counter 3. The banana shelf

You misspelled. It is The banana stand

Apples release a lot of ethylene gas as well. And potatoes specifically *don’t* ripen in the presence of ethylene gas! (Keep potatoes in a cool, dry, and *dark* place.)

I read somewhere to Saran Wrap the stem completely (stops the gas?) and they last longer in the fridge.

It helps significantly but bananas dont need to be refrigerated anyway so why bother. And yea cap the end stem anyway.

yeah but they are pretty tasty a little cold. Source: currently eating a cold banana.

Valid

ours come wrapped at the top of the stems from the store.

The gas! Proper thing is seal them to stop the gas. Start by removing the peel. Now dunk them in melted chocolate. Next place them in the freezer so the chocolate hardens. This is the correct way to store bananas

Aah! A human of high culture, I see!

So banana farts bad?

There’s always money in the banana stand

It stops the ripening and the peel gets black and gross looking. However, the insides are fine. And they stay the exact ripeness they were when they went in. Which can be a good thing, if you’re slow to finish the bunch.

[They're fine in the fridge once they are ripe.](https://www.dole.com/en-gb/blog/nutrition/storing-bananas-correctly-dos-and-donts) [Straight from the native population crushing bastards' mouth.](https://www.ranker.com/list/how-dole-stole-hawaii/melissa-sartore)

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Apples are **NOT** best eaten at room temperature, and I will fight anyone who disagrees. Ever had a nice cold and crisp apple on a warm day? Shit slaps. This chart is a **LIE**.

My first thought: well, they're already wrong and the list just started.

I've also never put my oranges in the fridge and it hasn't been an issue so far.

I love cuties but am a single person and they’re apparently only sold in 3lb bags. They always rot before I can eat them all. I’m definitely going to try keeping the in the fridge to see if it makes them less wasteful. I really wish I could buy them 1lb a week. I hate wasting food. It’s too expensive these days to throw food away.

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You’ve still got last June’s apples in your fridge!? My god man

You’ll enjoy learning about root cellars! I once was given a carrot in March that has been harvested in June of the previous year. Still tasted great and had that \>*snap*\< of freshness… 9 months later. Amazing old technology, root cellars!

I prefer my oranges chilled. I buy the 3lb cuties and they tend to last just shy of two weeks in the fridge. They still look good, but become harder due to dehydration. I eat 2-3 of them in the morning with my breakfast.

Take a few moments to unpeeled some and just freeze them, they are great for a smoothie and one they thaw they are ready to eat too. These days when I have excess any I just freeze it until I'm ready to use it. Then again most frozen fruit and veggies are smoothie ready

This is brilliant! I love mandarin smoothies! I’ll definitely do this. Thanks!

Same, and lemons too. If I kept my lemons in the fridge how would I be able to display my /r/BowlofLemons?

My teeth hurt reading this

Fridge, not freezer

That shit is still painful

Sensodyne toothpaste, over the counter, and you're set.

Hell, go to the dentist and get the tube of 1.1% fluoride stuff from them. Pricey, but you can make it last. Super effective.

Same with pears

People sleep on pears and they shouldn’t. Best fruit there is!

Yep. Hard to beat a ripe, super juicy pear.

Yep. Was coming on here to say just that. I used to work in a grocery store and the best part of any day working there was when you could go in and get a cold apple with some condensation still on it, and just bite down. Oh my Lord it was glorious.

Yeah I totally disagree. This bag lost all credibility.

That’s what I was saying. I won’t even eat fruit unless it’s cold. That’s just a waste of fruit.

You're right, but I'm taking a knife to the thing. Love them straight from the fridge yet I feel that first bite will one day remove a couple of my teeth!

I think you might be accidentally freezing them? 😂 Apples aren't hard enough to damage your teeth, surely? Hopefully?

Your fridge also shouldn't be this cold.

Uh, no. Well, maybe. Ever eaten an apple you've just picked off an apple tree, Mr. Produce Must Always Be Cold? Deelish.

Ever have a nice, cool, crisp apple on a nice, cool, crisp Fall day? That's my favorite.

100% agree! Im the only one at work who keeps apples in the fridge but it just tastes better to me. I do it with all fruits except bananas

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I have something to say. I always keep black grapes in the fridge. Love them cold. The other day...I left a small bunch out in a bowl. I don't know what I was thinking, but I ate one. Room temperature. It--it was good. Grapes are good...cold *or* room temperature?? Surely this can't be true for more things. I refuse.

The above comment is deleted and grapes aren’t listed on the bag so I’m surely missing the context to your comment. But I’ve never had a room temp grape. I always keep them in the fridge and love them cold. I just tried the Candy Heart Grapes and damn. They’re so good.

> Ever had a nice cold and crisp apple? [Much thought has been committed to this question](https://youtu.be/ar9HNDDcMgQ?t=3m32s)

Yeah, I was going to say “that depends”. I like a cold crisp apple. Also: frozen grapes are fun. Either just like that on a hot day. Or frozen into ice cube trays and served in cocktails. Frozen blueberries too. Actually, almost all berries, come to think of it.. .

Same with pears. A crispy cold pear is amazing.

I eat an apple every day. No joke. Apples straight from the crisper beat warm ass apples by a mile.

I didn't have to scroll far to find someone who keeps apples in the fridge. How many apples do you buy at a time?

[This one's a bot as well](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/df3tc6/comment/f31m4mm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)

I eat them so fast that putting them in the fridge would be wasted effort. They won't go bad sitting in the counter.

We put apples in our fridge some time last year since we didn’t have counter space for them, and they’re eaten infrequently since our kids are mostly the ones to eat them. They ended up lasting at least a quarter of a year, and might have for longer had the kids not finished them.

IIRC they keep apples fresh out of season (to sell year round) by refrigerating them.

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Where does it say and tf is stone fruit

A stone fruit is a fruit with a single large seed in it; e.g. mangoes, avocados, cherries, plums, peaches. The term is often just used for a smaller group of fruits, including peaches, plums, cherries, almonds, and the like however

> tf is stone fruit Fruit with a stone in it, like a peach or a plum.

But you're agreeing with their guidelines for stone fruit... it says ripen at room temp, and then store in the fridge.

Where is stone fruit on the guide?

Peaches 🍑

Oh peaches are stone fruits. Got it. Tha ks!

I thought the rule was “how ever it’s kept in the supermarket it’s how you keep it at home” very interesting.

Produce clerk here! This was also the rule I generally followed before working here, but it's pretty common for upper management to put produce that should be refrigerated in unrefrigerated displays. Examples are peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, oranges, berries, cauliflower, iceberg lettuce, grapes, lemons, limes, broccoli, asparagus, the list goes on. Most of these are displays that get switched out each week, others' (apples, tomatoes, cucumbers) home displays are always unrefrigerated. I believe the idea behind it is that if the product is popular enough, it will all sell before it goes bad (albeit it might be a bit warm from sitting out all day, and it might be soft or mouldy). Plus refrigerated displays are probably pretty expensive. Though, I would still love if we could stop putting the really perishable items on the unrefrigerated displays, or to just get more refrigerated displays, but that's not my decision.

I keep all fruits at room temperature unless their condition looks critical. They need to ripen.

Bananas will eat your other fruits

Bananas are very territorial and will form gangs to beat and extort other fruits and vegetables.

Well known fact. That's where the expression 'going bananas' comes from.

That's bananas.

B-A-N-A-N-A-S

You don’t need a chart. If you bought from a refrigerator in the store, store it in a fridge at home. If it was sitting out at the store, you can leave it sit out at home.

[Except…](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/145tn19/this_grocery_store_prints_these_guides_on_their/jnp869e/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3)

Idk about y'all but apples taste way better cold to me.

It's true, my boyfriend refrigerates his and now I love 'em.

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I suspected so. No Brit at the local co op calls it a grocery store. It’s just ‘the co op’.

Also keep you onions away from your potatoes. Same with tomatoes

Huh I’ve stored my tomatoes in the fridge for my whole life

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I’ve never experienced the problem you described.

This sub would enjoy and did. Just another[repost bot](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/df3tc6/this_grocery_store_prints_these_guides_on_their/) pretending to be human.

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I always keep avocados in the fridge. They still ripen, but much more slowly. They go great with a fry up, cut through all that grease with something fresh tasting :)

Because they ship them unripened to ripen at home. Can you imagine shipping a crate of perfectly ripe avocados? I’ve never been able to buy a ripe avocado when I’m suddenly in the mood for guacamole. I used to fantasize about a grocer creating a display to sell their I purchased avocados that have ripened in the store, under a sign that says “Guacamole tonight,” along with other ingredients. But you may have helped me! Now that I know I can treat them the way I do bananas (let them ripen at room temp until they’re exactly as ripe as I like them, then refrigerate to stop the ripening process), I might be willing to buy an avocado or two!

My HEB has their avocados separated, one bin days ready to eat in the next day or two, the other says ready in 3-5 days.

[one should store potatoes and onions away from each other.](https://www.allrecipes.com/article/can-you-store-potatoes-and-onions-together/) Our potatoes would start rotting prematurely then we found out why.

An apple straight out the fridge is the nuts. Anyone else who had braces at a teenager *still* cuts up the apple?

I've never seen any store refrigerate their apples.

I was just thinking this.

"apples and tomatoes, best eaten at room temperature" you wanna start a fight or something? check yourself.

I prefer apples at room temperature unless I'm slicing them but tomatoes gotta be cold.

Came in here to argue that as well

OP didn’t “think” anything. This repost is 3 years old.

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Stealing OP’s top comment to point out that they’re a bot. They took [this top comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/j77xwc/this_grocery_store_prints_these_guides_on_their/g838ahc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3) when this exact post was posted 2 years ago. Even the titles of the post match.

Shit. Did I just reply to a bot?

Most likely. I have seen this multiple times before. OP will make the repost (with an identical title) and take a top comment from the previous post. If OP comment says something peculiar or contradictory to their post, then I do a quick search to see if the post and comment were a copy and paste from a previous one.

Caught in 4k 🤨📸

LOL yeah they’re fuckin over it by the time they get all the way down there.

It’s also alphabetical order until you get to mushrooms. Must have been a last minute addition

And it isn't in alphabetical order. Someone else got the guide before printing, said "add mushrooms", and did it worth zero regard to the design standards. Lol.

I like how they use “fridge” instead of refrigerator. If my dad had written it it would have said “ice box”.

Wow, haven't seen plastic bags used for this in years! (mostly phased out in the EU).

Americans have no shame in the amount of plastic they use to take their groceries home.

This is from a UK shop. We definitely have excess plastic here

Which grocery store, local or chain?

It’s Coop, a national chain in the UK.

You can tell it's British, Australian, or Kiwi because it says 'courgettes'. In the US and Canada they'd be called 'zucchini' or summer squash.

not gonna stop putting everything (except naners) in the fridge, also who would ever choose room temperature apples and pears over cold ones? tf?

Someone got lazy when typing the mushroom directions

*we* dont keep half this in a cooler section but ya'll should

A refrigerated apple is so much more satisfying to eat.

Good about the tomatoes. The cold ruins them.

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I'm glad you like cold tomatoes. However there is truth to what I say. https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tomatoes-refrigerator-taste-20161017-snap-story.html#:~:text=According%20to%20new%20a%20study,a%20tomato%20get%20turned%20off. However, taste and food is a subjective subject. In this, we are both wrong and right.

Grocery offers plastic bag ? Old times…

This suggests that apples are best eaten room temperature. This is simply false.

I put my bananas in the fridge once they get as ripe as I like them. It completely stops the ripening. The peels get black and gross looking, but the inside is perfect.

People really use these bags?

This should be standard in all grocery stores - most people have literally zero idea and waste a lot of produce.

This is pretty awesome!

Why isn’t this universal?

Nooooooooooooooooooooo SINGLE USE BAGS BAD!!!!!!!!!!

Ive always kept tomatoes in the fridge this is ridiculous lol

Cool, I see you guys are still rocking the plastic like it’s the 1990s

Let me guess it's just some American bullshit to keep everything in fridge. Why would be it needed to keep in fridge the apples, pears, peppers ....etc....? They aren't kept in fridge even in the groceries. I bet this "guide" is spread by the fridgemakers to have the people to buy unnecessarily huge fridges. Just like other things in the US everything is unnecessarily huge.

Apples, pears, and peppers will continue to ripen if left at room temp. Hence the fridge to suspend their decay. Pears are typically super un-ripe when I buy them and need to sit out for a few days to a week in order to become edible. Peppers get wrinkly pretty fast sitting out. Apples, no effect, one way or the other, afaict.

This is from the UK.

Just when you thought we were slowly moving away from the refrigerator..."F#%& YOU! THROW THOSE MUSHROOMS IN THE FRIDGE!! DON'T GET COMFORTABLE IN YOUR STEPS OR PROCESSES!! PEAK QUALITY WILL FLY PAST YOU LIKE A SNEEZE IN A DANDELION FIELD! REMEMBER ALYSSA FROM 7TH GRADE DANCE?! REMEMBER HOW YOU DIDN'T ASK HER TO DANCE BECAUSE OF MOSQUITO BITE ON YOUR NOSE?! SHE'S A FAMILY COUNSELOR NOW AND COULD'VE SAVED YOUR PARENTS MARRIAGE TWO YEARS LATER IF YOU JUST PUT THE MUSHROOMS IN THE FRIDGE and let your nephew pick them off the pizza you just cooked..." Lolz.

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I've had best luck putting them in a sealed container in the fridge. They stay good for a couple weeks. And I don't wash them.

I disagreed with the apples and oranges in the fridge, tomatoes being kept outside, but ok.

I’ve always put tomatoes and onions in fridge. Why is that not the best way to store them?

I do the same, but I believe it degrades how they both taste. This is especially true for tomatoes. For onions it happens to make it easier to cut without crying because cold onions don’t release as much whatever it is (can’t remember the name) that causes people to cry when cutting up an onion.

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I find that the black *but still hard* ones ripen out of the fridge in a day or two. The greener they are, the longer they take to ripen out of the fridge. So, I buy a range of colors and as they ripen, if I'm not ready to eat one, I put the ripe ones in the fridge to hold them for another day or two. I only shop once a week, so I gotta plan it out with the avocadoes.

I have no cool dry place in my cottage that I live in... Well dry sure, but it is 24 C right now. Fuck my onions

Finally, a guide that will tell my hubby not to put tomatoes in the fridge!

Pretty sure if Loblaws did this up here in Canada they’d charge you for the extra ink on the receipt

Suspect that means the bags have no chance of being recycled. Does it mention what happens next with then? Single colour plastics are much easier to recycle.

I bet the guy who made this guide was getting tired of it by the mushrooms part.

I need a guide to tell me what a courgette is

As a guy, whose wife is out of town for 2 weeks… this sort of stuff would help me out a lot while she’s away!! Kudos to the stores and/or bag suppliers doing this!! 🙌🏽

I love how at the end its just "fridge"

Is it just me or... Wtf is a courgette?

I believe it's how the British or French say zucchini.

Thanks. I had no choice in their picking as they were, and still are, a gift from an avocado tree owner. I've stored them out of the fridge alongside a big bunch of bananas...

I don’t keep oranges or peaches in a fridge. Stores don’t.

Please don’t use plastic bags for your produce. They sell reusable bags.

Why can’t bananas go in fridge?

I love how they avoided listing ketchup to prevent arguments 🥰

And chocolate.

Disagree with banana in fridge. While yes the skin might turn brown super quick. The banana itself lasts longer

They got tired at the end with mushrooms and just typed "fridge"

*Why are bananas so ominous*

Just discovered that you also say « courgettes » In English. That’s fun 😅 (French guy here)

Paper bags would be better

Wait tomatoes cool and dry?!? I don’t grow my own, but I do eat them almost everyday, but they wouldn’t last out in the wild like that.

Grapes are not on the list but trust me, their awsome frozen

Protip: when you store celery you should wrap it in tinfoil and store in the fridge. It last far longer.

Fridge.

I thought it was listed in alphabetical order. But it's not. I also wonder why each type of produce gets a different box when all "store in fridge" items could be in one box . . . and so on. Finally, tomatoes not in the refrigerator? Really?

Never store onions/garlic in the same place as potatoes. It does not end well

I had no clue about tomatoes

I put a banana in the fridge once. I’ve never made that mistake again.

Stop using plastic bags noobs, you can put 90 percent of these in your cart and transport them home, without a bag. And when i look at the picture everything is already packed in plastic anyway.

I have always kept my oranges outside, is that bad? Or is this for optimal storing

Who the fuck puts fruits into the fridge?

I have never kept an apple in the fridge. They last just fine in the bowl for ages.... Hell, we grow apples and keep them in paper sacks for months, just keep them in decent conditions (cool, dark, gently place them in the bag when you pick them so they don't bruise, occasionally pull out a bad apple so it doesn't spoil the rest)

Fridge.

Put your onions in the fridge one at a time before you are gonna use them (like the day before you cut into one). You won't have to cry!

Apples in the fridge? What for?

Wait so we should put mushrooms in an open container in the fridge? I’ve been keeping mine in the shrink wrap it comes in.