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Anyone know a good way to prevent Fruit Flies from ripe bananas? I mean a method they have actually used with success, not some cyber urban myth like dishsoap in water. I buy bananas twice a week trying to space out the ripening, and I like them at different stages for different purposes - but those little invaders can take over. Then they find my coffee grounds and I get overrun. Guess I need an airtight container for fruit and coffee headed for a compost pile.
Freezer?! Surely not. Maybe you mean fridge? I have ripe ones in the fridge now, skins black but the ripening process seems slowed, no FFlies emerging, and yeah - great smoothies. I guess that's the best for before used. For peels and coffee ground, I need to get an airtight trash can.hi dd...i just remembered one method i tried as a kid (i'll probably get some grief about this), but i used to stick the bananas in the freezer (frozen bananas + milk + blender = tasty smoothie). while the skin went brown pretty quickly, the bananas' ripening process didn't seem to accelerate. i'm not sure that this is exactly what you're looking for (but hey, at least it kept the fruit flies from growing) since it didn't didn't seem that the bananas achieved different stages of ripeness. btw, what's the water and dishsoap method?
Freezer?! Surely not. Maybe you mean fridge?
"I mean a method they have actually used with success..."
And refill the container with N2 every time I open it? An idea, but I think I'll stick to the fridge. I bet he had free gas and didn't open every day.Does Price matter? Try a sealed container then displace the O2 with Nitrogen or some other Inert gas.
I new a guy on a submarine that used to do that with his Cigarettes said they where fresher after a month or 2.