Would you like to answer a question about how you take care of your produce?

Fruit – fridge. Bread – fridge (otherwise it gets moldy before I get to all of it).

Fruit goes in the fridge.
Bread goes on the counter.

Bread – counter. After a few days, it goes into a low oven and becomes breadcrumbs.
Bananas/oranges/tomatoes/kiwi – counter
All other fruits – fridge

I do not understand why anybody puts fruit in the fridge. Maybe someone could explain it? I’m being serious, not rude.

I keep fruit out, and garlic, and bread….I rarely have it and when I do its homemade so it gets stale soo fast so we just eat it within a few days and leave it out, cut side down, for the couple days its there.

Frozen bread is so gross.

@deni Because when I don’t, I get fruit flies. And for the berries, because they’re berries and need to be refrigerated.

Fruit goes in the fridge except for bananas and some oranges. My parents used to always leave bananas, some oranges, some apples, and a few others out. Here at my college house, we leave bananas out and sometimes oranges, but everything else goes in the fridge.

I put sourdough in the freezer, but other bread is either left out or in the fridge. It just depends.

@deni I’VE ONLy ever gotten fruit flies when I leave compost on the counter. ew. I guess I’m just lucky. I forgot about berries. Yes. You’re right. Usually they’re gone before I get home though. oh I’d kill for a good raspberry right now.

I would have said I don’t put fruit in the fridge, but @papayalily reminded me I do put my berries in there, if I don’t plan on consuming them quickly. Everything else is in the “fruit bowl.”

Bread goes in the cabinet. Too much clutter drives me crazy.

@papayalily Have you tried washing the fruit immediately when you come home? I found it stopped my fruit fly issue.

@deni My adult grandson puts fruit in the refrigerator because he likes it cold. I don’t care, so most of the fruit stays out. The vegetables go into the crisper drawer in the bottom of the refrigerator. We don’t have a much of a storage issue because the food gets eaten up nearly as fast as it comes into the house. We buy about one week at a time, or more often as necessary.

I buy fresh mushrooms at our farmers’ market – shiitake and oyster varieties. They are pretty perishable, and if I store them in a plastic bag in the fridge they will soak up the condensation and get mushy, and if I store them in paper they will dry out. What I learned one day is that the perfect way to store them seems to be inside a paper bag which is then inside of a plastic bag. The paper soaks up the condensation so they don’t start to rot, and then it keeps them in a humid environment so they don’t dry out. I can keep them for several days, almost a week, that way.

Thank you @laureth. We’ll be back with in the kitchen after these words from our sponsors.

@Taciturnu Yeah, but it didn’t really do anything…

I keep bread in the fridge and fruit in the pantry (which is cool, but not as cold as the fridge). Only in very hot weather do I keep fruit in the fridge. I’ll also keep fruit that’s been cut (like a half melon) in the fridge.

Unused bread in the freezer, fruits and tomatoes on the counter in a bowl, unless perishable, like berries.

I only buy about 2–3 days of fruit at a time. Infact, I bought a bag of cuties (tangerines) and about half of them are getting squishy. Wind up the ol’ pitching arm and lob ‘em into the woods later today.