How to Store Food - How to keep bananas from turning rotten

Hi Christi Ferretti here with Expert Village. Bananas now these are a great example of some bananas we bought a few days ago ready to eat, ripe, really really sweet, shouldn't be too bruised very moist and very good. Now in terms of storing bananas when you buy them from the grocery store you always wanna consider what you are going to be doing with them, when you are going to be eating them. So if you wanna have them for the week you want to buy them a little on the green side and you wanna store them flip side up. I am not a big counter person so I don't like to have things all over my counter so I kinda store them like this so they have as little contact with the counter as possible. And store them on the counter not in the fridge. Bananas are acutally a warm climate food so when you put them in the fridge they actually start breaking down and turning brown. Now some people who dont mind things on their counter often get those things called banana hammocks and thats gonna be perfect for avoiding any kinds of bruises. Kids often like that because its cute and becasue they dont like any brown on there bananas so if your a mom that might be an option for you . Now if you get to the store and they have green bananas and none of the red tape ones which a lot of stores have which are already starting to rippen and get over ripe which is great for banana bread. You can speed up the ripening process by putting the banana in the regridgerator or into the freezer and the next day there gonna be nice and brown and mushy. If your bananas sit on the counter too long and they start to get to this point which may be too much for you or even browner you can put them in the refridgerator in a ziploc bag or something like that and pull them out on a rainy day and make yourself a nice warm and flavorful banana bread. Enjoy your bananas.