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You can store mushrooms in the refrigerator for a long time after cooking and heat treatment. Fresh mushrooms, only collected from the forest, are processed into conservation, dried or frozen harvesting as quickly as possible. The mushroom harvest must not only be harvested, but also properly preserved.
Is it possible to store mushrooms in the refrigerator
In a city apartment there is no cellar where mushrooms preserved in marinade or brine can be stored for a long time, almost until the next harvest. Therefore, a refrigerator is used to store honey agarics.
Pickled and salted mushrooms can be stored at room temperature in the pantry. The started jar of salted honey agarics must be immediately placed in the refrigerator, covered with a clean cotton cloth dipped in vodka on top so as not to grow moldy.
Everyone loves pickled and fried mushrooms, as well as mushroom caviar. But there are many more dishes from them. Freezing will help solve the problem of how to properly preserve them in winter and use them in cooking. In the freezer, you can store boiled or fried semi-finished products, packaged in small portions for one-time use. Fresh mushrooms are also frozen.
How to store mushrooms after harvest
After a successful trip to the forest for a "quiet hunt", the most important thing begins. You should not try to save mushrooms for a day, you need to process them as quickly as possible. They easily become moldy and accumulate dangerous toxins.
Upon arrival from the forest, it is better to immediately take up the harvested crop. First, sort out twigs and debris, and wash. Small, young specimens are especially good, they are suitable for pickling and other blanks. They are washed in cold water several times. Then put in a large pot of hot water and cook for 3-5 minutes. During heat treatment, the product will significantly decrease in size, it is a finished semi-finished product. So they will take up much less space in the freezer.
It is not necessary to remove the foam during the boil, since the cooked mushrooms are thrown into a colander and washed again with cold water. When the water drains, they are packed in plastic bags, so that they can be used one frozen portion at once.
How to store processed mushrooms
Fresh mushrooms are 90% water. They are low in carbohydrates and fats, but also a little protein, contrary to popular belief, so they cannot replace meat in the daily diet. Honey mushrooms are considered conditionally edible, they are eaten only after heat treatment.
100 g of boiled mushrooms contains about 30 kcal. However, it is worth adding oil and potatoes, and the nutritional value of such a dish will increase many times over. The composition of mushrooms includes various vitamins - C, B, PP and minerals: potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, which are necessary for a person for normal life.
Heat treated - fried or boiled honey mushrooms can be stored in the refrigerator or freezer. The choice of storage location depends on the desired timing. At -18 ° C, such a workpiece will safely lie for 12 months from the date of freezing. Salted and pickled mushroomspre-cooked and soaked in brine or marinade are stored at room temperature in a dark, cool pantry.
According to GOST, canned mushrooms prepared in compliance with the temperature regime and all sanitary standards are stored for no more than two years at + 25 ° C. And in a basement or refrigerator, where it is not more than + 6 ° C, such conservation can be kept for three years.
How many days can honey mushrooms be stored
The shelf life of honey agarics after collection and processing depends on the conditions, place and purpose of use. The dried product is saved the longest, but more often it is salted, fried or boiled.
A dish of boiled or fried mushrooms cooked with potatoes or other vegetables should not be stored for more than a day without a refrigerator. Opened jars of pickles are stored in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days.
How much honey mushrooms can be stored after collection
After harvesting the mushrooms are washed and processed immediately. Long-term storage of plucked honey agaric is dangerous, its period should not exceed five to six hours. After that, they become moldy, lose their aroma, taste and benefits. If you do not have the strength and desire to tinker with the harvest for a long time, you can simply fill it with water and put it under pressure. When the initial fermentation process has passed, and they decrease in size, wash them thoroughly, and fill them with clean brine, put them under pressure.
Even in the refrigerator, the collected fresh mushrooms cannot be stored longer than 5-6 hours. The appearance of mold will make them of little use for food, and preservation can cause poisoning. Therefore, you need to clear the mushrooms from debris, pack them in bags, and send them to the freezer.
How much boiled mushrooms can be stored
Boiled mushrooms filled with marinade or brine can be stored in tightly sealed sterile jars and frozen. In the latter case, it is convenient to use a freezer designed for freezing vegetables, berries, fruits and other products. All supplies will not fit in the freezer of the refrigerator, and it is not always possible to maintain a temperature of -18 ° C throughout the year.
When properly frozen, boiled mushrooms are placed in bags in small portions so that they freeze as quickly as possible. First, they need to be cooled, dried in a colander, and quickly packaged. It is impossible to re-freeze such a blank, you need to eat everything at once or keep the boiled mushrooms in the refrigerator until the evening.
How long can pickled mushrooms be stored
Salted mushrooms are healthier than pickled ones. In the process of salting, protein is destroyed, it becomes more easily digestible. The pickled product is less digestible, it contains acetic acid, many flavorings and spices.
Pickled mushrooms have a rather long shelf life, it all depends on the observance of the canning technology, temperature and humidity in the storage. Humidity should not exceed 75%, if the air temperature is from 0 to +6 ° C, mushrooms, marinated in an industrial way, can be stored for three years.
How much can you store fried mushrooms
Fried mushrooms for the dinner table, store no more than a day without a refrigerator. If the mushrooms are laid out in sterilized jars and poured with calcined vegetable oil, such a blank can stand for more than 6 months in the pantry. Fried frozen mushrooms can be stored for the longest time - about 1 year.
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Wild mushrooms can be beneficial if harvested from an ecologically clean area and cooked properly. In some regions of Russia, picking wild mushrooms is not recommended due to the unfavorable environmental situation. These are areas adjacent to Belarus and Kazakhstan, where the content of radioactive products in the soil exceeds the norm.
It should always be remembered that home-canned mushrooms are potentially dangerous.During it, mushrooms, poorly cleared of soil, can preserve botulism spores, which are not destroyed by ordinary boiling. Only industrial autoclaving can destroy a dangerous infection.
It is easy to get poisoned by canned mushrooms bought from hands on the market. The first signs of poisoning appear in the form of severe pain in the stomach, and breathing may be impaired. With the use of such canned food contaminated with botulism, a person can easily die. A swollen lid on a can is not yet an indicator of damage, sometimes dangerous processes go unnoticed. Therefore, it is impossible to buy canned mushrooms on the market, harvested in various ways for long-term storage.
For preservation, it is better to use plastic lids. Unlike dense tin cans, they slightly let air through, and do not allow botulism to develop in canned mushrooms. At the same time, the plastic lids must be tight enough to prevent the contents of the can from evaporation of the brine and the appearance of mold.
Some mushrooms are incompatible with alcohol, for example, common oak tree. It contains substances that, under normal conditions, are not absorbed in the human intestine, but when interacting with alcohol, they easily penetrate into the bloodstream, and lead to serious poisoning.
Conclusion
You can store mushrooms in the refrigerator after pickling for a long time. If you open a can with conservation, its shelf life is reduced to two to three days. Frozen mushrooms also retain their nutritional value for a long time. Honey mushrooms are very rarely dried, since in this form they lose their characteristic mushroom aroma, and become tasteless after cooking. You can keep fried and boiled mushrooms fresh for 3 days in the refrigerator at a temperature of 0 ... + 5 ° C. This is the maximum period for the safe use of the product.
