Keep Bananas Fresh Longer

http://lifehacker.com/5967424/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-separating-them-and-wrapping-the-stems-in-plastic-wrap

by zvanness • 12 years ago

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tootie• 12 years ago

I read it twice and didn't see the actual solution. The picture shows plastic wrap on the stem. I've seen that at some groceries and didn't know what it was form

itsame• 12 years ago

EDIT: jeroen's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8093790) links to a better article.

tl;dr (as PeterWhittaker suggests): "Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by Separating Them and Wrapping the Stems in Plastic Wrap".

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NOTE: Just for context (so this comment doesn't look quite so silly as it now does :))... The post originally linked to awareness-time.com/?p=4195

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So... am I right in my assumption that the picture of the bananas is a demonstration of this "simple way"? (With the intent of covering the stem with plastic wrap being for the purpose of minimizing exposure to gases that speed the process up?)

It's not made explicitly clear in the blog entry. In fact, the entry is very poorly structured. It...

1. gives an anecdote about the bananas turning brown

2. says there's a better way to slow the browning

3. immediately jumps into a section it marks as "optional"

4. starts the optional section with an ad

5. begins actual optional content with a short blurb

6. finally shows the picture (is this optional??)

7. follows it all up with the actual "optional" science

All without at least a short text explanation of the "simple way". You don't need complicated words to explain that processes occurring at the stem speed up the ripening effect, and that an easy way around that is to cover the stem with plastic wrap... so why is such a simple explanation omitted? Yes, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but when placed poorly, makes for a very confusing thousand words.

jeroen• 12 years ago

A less confusing article about the same solution:

http://lifehacker.com/5967424/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-s...

dang• 12 years ago

Thanks. We changed to that from http://awareness-time.com/?p=4195.

tdicola• 12 years ago

What a weird article, it spends more time describing links to the science than the actual solution. Is this some new form of scheming/optimizing search engine rank by quoting and linking a lot of tangentially related academic topics?

zvanness• 12 years ago

My apologies for posting a poorly written article. I came across it through Prismatic (http://getprismatic.com/). From my understanding their content is curated directly by them and not the users.

Just as @jeroen has commented, here is a less confusing article giving the same solution: http://lifehacker.com/5967424/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-s...

opminion• 12 years ago

The posted article is just a cropped (and possibly plagiarised) copy of the one linked at the end of the Lifehacker one:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Keep-Bananas-Fresh-Longer-sl...

It seems that whoever tried to copy the article didn't read it and forgot to include the steps.

japaget• 12 years ago

Scroll down further and read the comments to the article at instructables.com. Someone tried the suggestion to cover the stems in plastic wrap and found that it did NOT work.

PeterWhittaker• 12 years ago

So we can just tl;dr the better article a couple of people have posted and leave it at that: Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by Separating Them and Wrapping the Stems in Plastic Wrap (that's the headline from the better article).

rMBP• 12 years ago

Holy moley, the initial scrolling on that site is horrible.

angdis• 12 years ago

Banana's are best eaten at the instant in time when the brown spots cover the peel like freckles and are just about to make contact with each other. Why anyone would want to delay this moment is beyond my comprehension.

jinushaun• 12 years ago

Banana on the right is proper ripeness. The one on the left is unripe and tannic.

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