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On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:11:55 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

> On Friday, November 21, 2014 12:02:40 PM UTC-8, Janet Wilder wrote:
> > Granddaughter is coming with her parents on Monday and they are leaving
> > early Friday morning. I had her mom text me a list of what she eats and
> > on the list of 6 items was clementines.
> >
> > You cannot buy those little, orange suckers in any quantity less than 5
> > pounds! I now have a mesh bag of clementines taking up a goodly part of
> > my fridge.
> >
> > Q: Can these balls of space-hogging citrus live outside of the
> > refrigerator?
>
> Not for very long at normal room temp.
>
> A friend's dad built a rack to store citrus in his basement (his Texan
> brother would send him grapefruit every year). He rigged a fan to blow
> air over it to prevent spoilage. The basement was roughly 55 degrees
> during the winter.
>
> If your basement (or garage) was cold enough, I would stash it in a basket
> and maybe try the fan thing.

Why? Do you keep your home's thermostat at 80-100 F?

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