Another strange question

[v8vega]

On the o gauge forum "How to remove the top from a Berkshire?" If the questioner would have looked at the engine he would have seen how faster than the time it took to type his question.

[gregj410]

It reminds me of the people that send me a text saying ‘ hey can you call me?’

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We are becoming a nation of the clueless......

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What's the best way to store nearly a 1/2 bushel of apples during this Winter ?

[healey36]

Imperial or Norwegian?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Imperial or Norwegian?

Honey Crisp and Pink Lady

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What's the best way to store nearly a 1/2 bushel of apples during this Winter ?

Loose wrap in paper, stack in the basket, in the dark, in the coolest corner of the basement.

Better way to store them is to make pie and store by feeding the pie hole.

[healey36]

When I was kid we stored them in the garage, loose in the baskets. Worked well as long as you didn't have a varmint problem. Apples in their raw form have a pretty long shelf-life. An orchard I worked for when I was in high school used to store them in a "cold room", a refrigerated building kept at ~ 50 degrees. Those apples would stay in pretty good shape well into spring and summer, even until the next harvest.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When I was kid we stored them in the garage, loose in the baskets. Worked well as long as you didn't have a varmint problem. Apples in their raw form have a pretty long shelf-life. An orchard I worked for when I was in high school used to store them in a "cold room", a refrigerated building kept at ~ 50 degrees. Those apples would stay in pretty good shape well into spring and summer, even until the next harvest.

As long at it did not get to a hard freeze the garage should work.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I've also been advised:
+ wrap each apple separately in newspaper.
+ don't have the apples touching each other.

And my Thanks to each of you for your input.
Nice.

[chuck]

I am not sure about the wisdom of wrapping anything with modern news print let alone something you are supposed to consume.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I am not sure about the wisdom of wrapping anything with modern news print let alone something you are supposed to consume.

I don't know. Older newsprint might have been with an ink that was 100% chemical vs. today where it might be more bio-based.

Ok, so wrap in paper towel except that's a bleached and treated paper product.

[chuck]

Newsprint paper is ok.

I thought the modern inks would be less toxic. They are just different. Old stuff almost never broke down. You could go dig up newspaper's buried in the dump, dry them out and still read them. Modern stuff starts breaking down into what ever components it's made of. I started noticing print transfer in stuff shipped with "new" newspapers while 50 year old stuff was stable.

Apples produce a large amount of ethylene gas. Does that gas have any interaction with the ink?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Apples produce a large amount of ethylene gas. Does that gas have any interaction with the ink?

I'd be surprised unless there's some sort of catalytic material in the ink - unlikely.

In any case, just washing off the apples prior to eating tends to be good practice no matter what

[healey36]

Anybody got the chart for how many days to defrost your turkey, or am I already screwed?