How to preserve bananas after buying them?

Question

I found organic bananas at a good price. I bought three bunches. They are ripe. I don't want them to get overripe.
It's not like other fruits you can store in the fridge, as they get black.
I would not like to freeze them.
Would it be good to peel and put them in some lemon juice to preserve them and keep them fresh?

Answer 1

To slow the ripening process once bananas reach your preferred ripeness, put them in the refrigerator. The skin may turn dark, but the fruit will be just right for several days. If they get overripe, I have a great and easy recipe for Classic Banana Bread. Let me know if want it.

Answer 2

How To Preserve Bananas

Answer 3

Most bananas are picked green, then gassed to make them ripen just before they are delivered to the grocery store. Buy your bananas slightly green a couple of days before you want them. Store them at room temperature, not in the refrigerator. A perfectly ripe banana has a bright yellow skin with a few brownish freckles. Once the skin starts to turn blotchy with brown patches, the banana is overripe, but perfect for banana bread, cake & cookies. At that point I take the bananas, smush them up in 3 banana allotments, put them into ziplocks and freeze them. Another thing that you can do with bananas if you have too many of them getting ripe all at once is make Banana Pops: Peel the bananas. Cut them in half across the middle to make two pieces each about 3 inches long. Push a popsicle stick (craft store) an inch and a half or so up into the wider end. Melt some chocolate in the microwave. Dip the bananas in the chocolate, then roll them in chopped nuts or coconut (or both.) Lay them on a waxed paper covered cookie sheet and freeze. After they are frozen you can pack them in layers in a plastic container with waxed paper between. Lovely treat for a hot afternoon.

Answer 4

Actually the best way to preserve a banana is to put it in the refrigerator. Yes, the skin will darken and make the appearance of the banana to seem as if it is ripening more, but that is only the appearance.

I would say to you that you, that perhaps if you don't trust this you should test this by leaving bananas out on the counter and in the fridge and wait a week or so, the truth will be the insides, or fruit under the peel of the banana in the fridge will be better preserved.

Answer 5

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How to preserve bananas after buying them?
I found organic bananas at a good price. I bought three bunches. They are ripe. I don't want them to get overripe.
It's not like other fruits you can store in the fridge, as they get black.
I would not like to freeze them.
Would it be good to peel and put them in some lemon juice to...

Answer 6

One thing you can do to slow down the ripening process is to keep them away from other fruits. The gases given off help speed up the ripening process.
Lemon juice is only going to work for so long.
You can keep them in the fridge, true the peel will brown quicker but the fruit inside will stay firm for a bit. Just because the outside is brown does not mean the banana is bad.

Bananas are so cheap anyway, why worry?

Go to allrecipes.com and look up their Sour Cream Banana Bread recipe, it is to die for.

Answer 7

1.keep away from other fruits
2.lemon juice helps
3.hanging them from a banana holder helps alot too ! ! ! ! ! !

Answer 8

I have seen advertised on TV a bag to put fresh fruits and veggies in to preserve them. It lets the gas out. I can't remember what they are called.

Answer 9

Freezing bananas dont really affect the taste. Just peel them, put them in a big Ziploc freeser bag and you can freeze them fine, They unfreeze quickly. And then they are great to use for bread, muffins and such!

Answer 10

There are really two good ways to preserve bananas.

You can freeze them. They can be frozen with the peel on them, or you can peel them and put the bananas in freezer bags. If you are going to peel them, rule of thumb is that 4 bananas would equal 1 cup.
This makes it easier to use the bananas for baking because they are in 1 cup lots.

The other way to preserve bananas would be to dehydrate them. If you have an dehydrater, wonderful. If not, then a cookie sheet in a low temp oven, set at 200 F.
Peel the bananas. Drop them in a bowl of water that has some lemon juice in it, about 1 teaspoon lemon juice to 1 cup water. (This is so the bananas don't turn as brown as fast.) You can also use apple juice, equal amounts of juice and water.
Try to slice the bananas as evenly in thickness as you can. An egg slicer works wonders for this.

If you are using a dehydrater, it will probly take about 3 - 4 hours. In the oven, about 2 - 3 hours.
In the oven you will have to flip the bananas pieces several times to make sure they dry evenly.

Then you can put the banana pieces in a plastic containor or in baggies.