KOMPAS.com – If you have bought cucumber Suri and want to eat it when breaking the fast, see how to store cucumber suri so that it is durable.
The soft texture of the flesh makes cucumbers tend to be easily damaged if not stored properly.
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Check out the tips from the Agronomy and Horticultural Lecturer in the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, Deden Degrees of Matra, as quoted from Kompas.comTuesday (4/13/2021).
1. Without a refrigerator
Illustration of cracked cucumbers.You can store cucumber suri without a refrigerator at room temperature.
Make sure the room you choose is not exposed to direct sunlight. Exposure to sunlight will make cucumber suri lose water so that the skin is wrinkled and the texture changes.
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In cool room temperature and avoiding sunlight, cucumbers can last up to one week.
Make sure the air circulation in the room is also good so as not to speed up decay.
2. in the refrigerator
Illustration of Timun SuriIf you want cucumbers to last longer, you can store it in the refrigerator.
Lower refrigerator temperature than space temperature can slow down the decay process.
In addition, relative humidity (Relative humidity) in the refrigerator is also quite low so that cucumbers do not lose too much water.
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Storing cucumber suri in the refrigerator also makes it heavy not drastically shrink. In this way, cucumbers can hold more than one week.
Make sure you put it on a vegetable or fruit rack so that the temperature remains stable.
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