How do you store slice tomatoes so they last longer and stay fresher in the refrigerator?

Question

Also, whole tomatoes?

Beef Steak tomatoes and/or salad tomatoes, etc


Please be nice.. thank you...

sliced tomatoes in paper towel, doesn't sound too good.

Mary Smith, why not store tomatoes in the frig?

Answer 1

Storing Tomatoes
You have to treat your tomatoes right to enjoy them at their best. Just as you shouldn’t choose tomatoes from the refrigerated section at the store, you shouldn’t refrigerate them at home either. Temperatures below 55 degrees will destroy the flavor of your tomatoes and make them mealy. If some of your tomatoes need ripening, place them in a paper bag with a banana or an apple for a day or two. The gases from the fruit will help ripen them.

Answer 2

You should really slice tomatoes just before serving if possible, unless you are going to cook with them.

Tomatoes are best stored out of the fridge. In the fridge, they can get mealy, or grainy textured if the cells within the tomato combine with others.

Store them in a box, like a tupperware type of container with a paper towel on the bottom. Place them in one layer, on their 'shoulders' or upsidedown. They have more even weight distribution that way, rather than all the weight of a big, fat tomato on the bottom, makes it squishy.

Answer 3

when they're sliced a sealing bowl or zip lock bag works, tomatoes that haven't been cut or previously refrigerated should NOT be stored in the refrigerator, the kitchen counter is fine for them, they will keep in the fridge several days, whole tomatoes can last weeks outside the fridge.

Answer 4

Store sliced in Tupperware containers and whole ones at room temperature stem side down. Refrigeration will cause tomatoes to loose some of their flavor.

Answer 5

simply squirt some lemon or lime juice on them. The high acidity and acid content in the juice will keep bacteria from multiplying. Also, when you put them in a bag, suck all of the air out, reducing the air in the bag will slow the spoilage process.

Answer 6

I always store veggies in a ziplock with a paper towel to absorb extra moisture.

Answer 7

Strawberries, blueberries, adn blackberries have a very short shelf life. Buy them the day you plan to eat them, or at most, the evening before the next morning you plan to eat them. Grapes, apples, and oranges should be stored in the fridge fruit and veggie drawer. Take out of the plastic bag you used in the produce section. Do not wash grapes until ou are ready to eat them; apples, either. And be aware, none of it keeps longer than about a week, at best anyway. So just buy what you can eat in the next 3+ days or so.

Answer 8

ziplock bag but no longer than 3-5 days

Answer 9

First of all you don't put tomatoes in the fridge, if they are sliced you can put saran wrap over them.

Answer 10

well put it into a bagy
thats what i've seen other people do