Green Plastic Bags

I know what you are talking about. We have them in our fridge but SWMBO isn't home right now and I don't know where they come from. I'm guessing one of those many isles in Woolworths.

Utemad

Hi Carolyn,

I think they're called "robs" something like that...and yes they're fantastic and just to be confusing, I'm sure I"ve seen orange ones as well....I've bought them in the larger stores like Coles, Safeway, Bilow, I think they're normally where "gladwrap" is, they're in a flat pack, you might also see them in the fruit and veg section of the supermarket as well...

cheers

Lyn

I've never heard of these green plastic bags or orange, is there any advantage to using them.

Baz.

are they padded to stop bruising?

Brown paper (like the old fashioned shopping bags before plastic took over the world) works well - lets out the right amount of moisture to prevent mould on fruit & veges, without them drying out too much. I ripped open a paper bag from the bread flour and kept cauliflowers for many weeks - no sign of the black coating they normally get if left uneaten for a week or so. Save the "mushroom" bag from the supermarket for small quanities of veges.

Not totally sure on this but I believe the green placcy bags somehow 'neutralize' the ethylene (I think) gas that most fruit gives off. If enclosed in a normal situation the gas makes the fruit ripen faster, so the bag is slowing down this process.

Of course bananas give off this gas in large quantities so any fruit within 'range' of ripening bananas goes off much, much quicker. Never store your narnas with your other fruit.