why we can't store bananas in the refrigirator?
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Refrigerating bananas makes them turn black.  The temperture does not help preserve this fruit instead it over process it.  But overly ripe bananas makes the best flavored banana bread.
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Bananas and bread are two foods you should never refrigerate because they go "downhill" faster if you do!  Bananas spoil faster in the fridge than on the counter.  If you want fruit to ripen faster, close it up in a brown paper sack (never plastic).
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I keep a deep freezer in my garage.  It has chicken and lots of meats and stuff.  Every year we have a cow butchered to be made into steaks, ground beef, roast, etc.  Well, It was the middle of the summer and it was hot.  I had been to the grocery store and stopped by the garage to put some chicken in the freezer.   Somehow, the freezer had been unplugged.  So when i opened the freezer, the smell almost knocked me over. It was a bloody slushy raw meat soup.  Since it was airtight, there were no bugs or maggots yet, but I had to work fast.  My husband was away and he had the pickup truck.  I ran in the house and changed my clothes and got gloves and trash bags.  I couldnt put it in MY trash dumpster because they wouldnt pick it up for another 4 days, and by then the smell would kill everyone in the neighborhood.  My mom's (who lived 5 miles away) would be picking up later that day.  So i loaded up all  400 lbs of these HEAVY nasty bags of melted rotten meat into the trunk of my car and made 4 trips to remove all of it.  Luckily it was just smell and no maggots were yet involved.   I cleaned and bleached the freezer.  I still own it and it works great.  I burned the clothes i was wearing.   It was very gross.
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Bananas can't reproduce themselves: they require human propagation to reproduce. Ever notice the little back spots in a banana? Those are what's left of their seeds after domestication. Don't believe me? You plant a banana and see what happens.\nAlso, a variety of diseases are attacking them:\nWhile in no danger of outright extinction, in the next 10-20 years the most common edible banana cultivar 'Cavendish' could become unviable for large-scale cultivation. The predecessor to 'Cavendish', the cultivar 'Gros Michel', has already suffered this fate. 'Cavendish' is an extremely popular fruit in Europe and the Americas; unfortunately, like almost all bananas, it lacks genetic diversity which makes it vulnerable to diseases such as:\n\n \nInspecting bananas for fruit flies.Panama Disease (Race 1) – fusarium wilt (a soil fungus). The fungus enters the plants through the roots and moves up with water into the trunk and leaves, producing gels and gums. These plug and cut off the flow of water and nutrients, causing the plant to wilt. Prior to 1960 almost all commercial banana production centered on the cultivar 'Gros Michel', which was highly susceptible to fusarium wilt. The cultivar 'Cavendish' was chosen as a replacement for 'Gros Michel' because out of the resistant cultivars it was viewed as producing the highest quality fruit. More care is required for shipping the 'Cavendish' banana and some argue that the 'Gros Michel' tastes better. \nTropical Race 4 - a reinvigorated strain of Panama Disease first discovered in 1992. This is a virulent form of fusarium wilt that has wiped out 'Cavendish' in several southeast Asian countries. It has yet to reach the Americas; however, soil fungi can easily be carried on boots, clothing, or tools. This is how Tropical Race 4 moves from one plantation to another and is its most likely route into Latin America. The Cavendish cultivar is highly susceptible to TR4, and over time Cavendish is almost certain to be eliminated from commercial production by this disease. Unfortunately TR4 is currently resistant to all known fungicides, the only known defense is genetic resistance. \nBlack Sigatoka - a fungal leaf spot disease first observed in Fiji in 1963 or 1964. Black Sigatoka (also known as Black Leaf Streak) has spread to banana plantations throughout the tropics due to infected banana leaves being used as packing material. It affects all of the main cultivars of bananas and plantains, impeding photosynthesis by turning parts of their leaves black, and eventually killing the entire leaf. Being starved for energy, fruit production falls by 50% or more, and the bananas that do grow suffer premature ripening, making them unsuitable for export. The fungus has shown ever increasing resistance to fungicidal treatment, with the current expense for treating 1 hectare exceeding US$1000 per year. In addition to the financial expense there is the question of how long such intensive spraying can be justified environmentally. Several resistant cultivars of banana have been developed, but none has yet received wide scale commercial acceptance due to taste and texture issues. \nBanana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) - this virus is spread from plant to plant by aphids. It causes stunting of the leaves resulting in a "bunched" appearance. Generally, a banana plant infected with the virus will not set fruit, although mild strains exist in many areas which do allow for some fruit production. These mild strains are often mistaken for malnourishment, or a disease other than BBTV. There is no cure for BBTV, however its effect can be minimised by planting only tissue cultured plants (In-vitro propagation), controlling the aphids, and immediately removing and destroying any plant from the field that shows signs of the disease. \nThese four diseases represent the main threats to both commercial cultivation and the small-scal
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Yes.  I always wanted to know how those buggers MAGICALLY appear from NOWHERE when you leave a banana lying around!\nHow does that happen?
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Actually they no longer give off the "bad" CFC found as in the past!  One can of the keyboard cleaner that you buy at Walmart actually has around 2 times the new Freon (R134) in it that the new refrigerators  have in them!  AND YOU SHOOT IT INTO THE AIR! HOW ABOUT THAT!\n\nSo I guess that old refrigerators are a small problem and refrigeration in general in third world countries,  where they do not have to follow the conventions!  \n\nIn modern refrigerators there are few disadvantages!  Compaired to cooling your whole home or a huge office building!  Thats where you run into the enviornmental potential!  Not the little refrigerator, no matter how many!\n\nOne office building can easily have over 3000 pounds of refrigerant (R22) involved this if it escapes can cause harm. If the office catches fire, then all sorts of poisons are released into the air!\n\nThink of how many cans of keyboard cleaner you have used!\n(Freon is why the can gets so COLD!)  Each individual can would fill 2 refrigerators! \n\nKinda puts it into perspective!\n\n\nHave a good day!\n\n\nAPS
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Are you asking about food storage expenses? I would assumed that you mean the expenses to store the food in the storeage or freezer. The expenses could be electric charge, inventory accounting cost, ect.
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So you can see what is rotting in the back or your fridge.  Stuff doesn't rot in the freezer.
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Eat bananas instead.  Yar!
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the outside of the cubes melt the fastest while the inside are still froze.  What happens is the inside refreezes the melting outside therefor sticking together.  This will even happen while in ther freezer (if it is a self-defrosting kind)
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Instead of banana shouldn't it be plantain?
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There would be too many bananas.
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It is a derivative of topuvfridge residual. What happens is a standard refrigerator takes all the thl drug elements from open food items within the fridge. This crude fermentation process is funneled out of the fridge and exhausted into the backside via a venting grill. The ions produced by the grill throw these toxins to the top of the fridge, where it forms a thin layer of dust. This dust can then be harvested and when mixed with ground up allergy pills, forms the hallucinogen "dust". Sometimes cats jump on top of a fridge and come down a raging beast. It is so powerful you have to use catnip to bring them down. This is why it is important to keep the top of the fridge clean.
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No. The banana peel is biodegradable.\n\nIt is littering, though.
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IT IS NOT THE DRYER as mentioned in a previous answer\n\nIt is a reservoir for refrigerant.\n\nIn large refrigeration plants, like an industrial freezer or ice cream factory, there are many different machines running on one refrigeration  system. \n\nThese machines can be turned on or off individually so the load on the refrigeration system changes dramatically. As a valve opens on one machine the volume of the system increases, so more refrigerant is required. This comes from the accumulator, which is a reservior.\n\nWhen a machine is turned off, valves shut and the extra refrigerant goes back to the accumulator.\n\nLarge air conditioner (which are a single machine) and low production run equipement also use accumulators to allow for the difference between summer and winter.\n\nMass produced refrigerators do not have accumulators. Engineers work out exactly how many millilitres of refrigerant are required, how many milli metres of copper tubing are needed. They are designed as an exact unit. If you are making 1 million refridgerators and an accumulator costs $10, they just saved $10 000 000. If one gram of refrigerant costs $1 and 1 inch of copper tubing costs $1, they just saved another $20 000 000.  This is why household refrigerators do not have them.
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It's not allowed... only employees are allowed in the food prep areas.  It's a violation of many health codes too.
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It is called the energy of activation or activation energy. The bacteria and maybe fungi cannot multiply at the reduced temps so the food will not be attacked by the microbes.Also proteins don't breakdown quickly at lower temps so the food will be fresh when it defrosts