/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20361640
day 2 not much change

>>20361642
day 3 control bananas on left starting to look more ripe than ones in the bag.

>>20361644
day 4 brown spots appear on control.

>>20361649
day 4 taken out of bag.

also my sister did a similar experiment and got the same results.

but how did it affect the taste? well although the outside of the bananas did not brown the inside kind of tasted the same as the controls maybe slightly less ripe.

when the bag was opened after 4 days a strong smell of ethylene gas and the bag had started to inflate and had a lot of moisture inside it.

this kind of makes sense because I noticed that in the store bananas arrive in box in a large closed plastic bag.

>>20361640
Interesting

>>20361640
Is there a similar treatment with other fruits and vegetables, such as wilting vegetables?

Based sciencetist

>>20361640
Thanks OP. I learned something today

Just cover the stem with plastic

>>20363220
that does not work. It was tested, and I have tried it, makes no difference.

I've found that keeping them in a plastic bag keeps them from going brown but it still gets kinda mushy.

I thought keeping them in a bag is exactly what accelerates their decay by trapping co2. I buy bananas in different states of ripeness rather than a single bunch.

>>20361665
Very cool, I wonder if it halts it once it’s started to get ripe

Thanks for sharing your results!

They sprwy rhem with ripening agents so people consume more. You just wash them under the tap when you get home. Mine last twice as long now

>>20363533
Yeah it does accelerate the ripening.

>>20361640
>after getting fed up with bananas going bad in less than a week
Refrigerate or freeze them.

>>20361640
Ok but how did you post each update so fast when it takes a day each

>>20363988
He started this four days ago? Either that or he bought eight different bunches at different stages of ripeness just to prank anonymous strangers on a Panamanian goat decorating mailer.

>>20361640
Now post a pic of YOUR banana....

>>20364173

>>20363887
wrong.

>>20363970
wrong

>>20363988
oh for fucks sake look at the file names they have date stamps. what you think I started this experiment when I posted it?

>>20363533
wrong oxygen accelerates the ripening. don't know where you get co2 from they produce ethylene gas.

it's real simple just try it. how hard is it to put a bunch of green bananas in a ziplock bag?

>>20361640
>>20361642
>>20361644
>>20361665
>>20362529
>>20363859
>>20362545

This whole experiment was stupid and poorly executed and poorly thought-out.

His “control” bananas were still placed right next to the bagged bananas.

He only let the experiment go for four days. Not even a fucking week?

We still dont know if either bundle of bananas were simply more or less inclined to ripen regardless of being bagged or not. A third banana bundle would’ve given more insight.

Too many other variables.

Redo it.

wrapping the stem with a produce bag works

>>20364464
suck my dick

>>20364489
no

>>20364464
kys

>>20361640
You WANT yellow mushy banana. That's when they are the sweetest. You westoids have been conditioned to like eating fibrous bland chalky Gros Michels. I pity you. We literally have 20 species of bananas growing like weeds here.

>>20365360
Not until it's mature

>>20365989
>fibrous bland chalky Gros Michels
gross michael's haven't been available since about WWII.

and don't lecture me on when and how a banana is best and sweetest. I make banana bread with bananas that look like molasses.

>>20366105
>WWII
Roughy, yeah. The 1920s was when the Panama banana blight first showed up, hence that old song "Yes, we have no bananas." The Gros Michel was nearly extinct by the 1950s, and most of the world eats Cavendish bananas now, because they're resistant to the blight. They're not as good as the old Gros Michels, which were widely held to be the best variety in the world, but they're a pretty decent variety, which sadly is now threatened by a new strain of the Panama disease. Researchers are working on genetic engineering to save the Cavendish, and maybe even bring the Gros Michel back.

(And yeah, that anon's a dumbass, like most anons obsessed with "westoids" and "amerifats.")