In article om>,
"Sheldon" > wrote:

> Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> > Nancy Young wrote on 28 Oct 2005 in rec.food.cooking
> >
> > >
> > > "jw 1111" > wrote
> > >
> > > > Hi, I wish to cut a lemon in half and save one half. what is the
> > > > best way to save that half? in a plastic bag in fridge, or can I
> > > > freeze it and then defrost it and still use a little at a time?
> > >
> > > I just wrap it tightly in a little piece of plastic wrap and keep it
> > > in the refrigerator. It keeps pretty well. I use it often enough.
> > > I know you can freeze whole lemons, buy them on sale ... they
> > > are good for juice. Don't see why you can't freeze half.
> > >
> > > > what is the best way to cut it and squeeze it? The often seen way
> > > > of thin segments squeezed between the fingers seems hard work.
> > >
> > > Does to me, too, and seems as if a lot of the juice remains on your
> > > hands. I swear by my wooden lemon reamer, gets out the last drop.
> > >
> > > nancy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I buy lemon when there is a sale...zest them and squeeze all the juice into
> > a jar. I keep the jar in the fridge for weeks and there isn't a problem.
>
> Probably wouldn't be a problem, but that's not gonna taste anything
> like fresh squeezed... been there, done that, blech... makes bottled
> taste better, much better. And my experience is that frozen lemons do
> not taste anything like fresh, I don't freeze lemons.
>
> Mother Nature's citrus rind is the best citrus preservative there is,
> but still not for long term storage, perhaps two weeks in the fridge at
> best, and that's for uncut. Once cut lemons lose their fresh lemon
> flavor very rapidly, by the next day you may as well use bottled.
> Lemons are cheap, I buy a few at a time and once cut I tend to use the
> whole lemon, if not all that moment then by the end of the day... like
> after squeezing say a quarter the rind goes in my wine glass.... by the
> end of the day I can easily have all four quarters of rind in my glass.
> It's very rare that I can't use an entire lemon within the day... I
> mean like it's a measly lemon, no huge amount... anyone who saves part
> of a lemon saves part of a beer, blech! I don't save cut lemons, odds
> are they'll be forgotten and have grown penicillin long before I find
> them. I've visited people who save half a lemon, half an onion, half
> an apple... their fridge is a virtual compost heap, chock full of all
> these scary looking plastic wrapped mysteries... they figure they saved
> them so they must be valuable.
>
> Sheldon
>

Truth be told, I'm betting the majority of "saved" stuff ends up as
compost during the annual "I've got to clean out the 'frige before the
stuff starts taking on a life of it's own" refrigerator cleaning binge...

How many of us have stuff in the 'frige we cannot identify, or forgot
when we stored it? <lol>
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