Bought some strawberries? Blow-dry them!
We adore strawberries – they’re just so delicious! The lovely, sweet fruit is at its best in summer, but often available year-round, which we’re very thankful for! Unfortunately, the red fruit is also very vulnerable and that means we sometimes have to throw out half of them. Washing them is especially bad for them: you wash them and an hour later the strawberries have devolved into a mushy, soft mess…
Luckily, we’ve found a handy trick that will help you save your strawberries from a mushy death in only 30 seconds!
Benefits
Before we go into this handy trick, we want to talk a bit more about the benefits of eating strawberries. This summer fruit is said to help you lose weight because they contain a surprisingly low number of calories. Not only that, but this fruit also contains a ton of anti-oxidants and vitamins. In fact, strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges do! The only fruit that contains more vitamin C is the kiwi. Strawberries also contain a lot of folic acids, which we also need to stay healthy. So, there are certainly a lot of reasons to eat more of this delicious and healthy red fruit!
Trick
Fruit needs to be washed; that’s just the hygienic thing to do. Nobody likes taking a bite of some fruit and finding sand, dirt or, even worse, an insect or another type of critter in their mouth. Gross! Yet sometimes, the moisture that remains behind when you’ve washed your fruit causes the fruit in question to become soft or even bad. Luckily, there’s an easy fix for this problem and all you need is… a blow-dryer! Remove the leafy crowns from the strawberries and then rinse them properly. Next, place them on some paper towels – these will already absorb a lot of the moisture. Now the actual trick comes in! Put your blow-dryer on the lowest setting and blow-dry the strawberries for 30 seconds. Put them back in the fridge afterwards. You’ll notice the fruit remains fresh and tasty for much longer!
