The question of long-term storage of watermelons is very relevant, for example, for the southern areas where they are grown up in a large number. As practice shows, it is quite possible to keep watermelon juicy and tasty, though it isn't always simple.
Instruction
1. Keep watermelon during a long period quite perhaps. Separate grades can be stored in an appropriate look up to 3 months. However not all watermelons are fit for storing. Choose absolutely whole, not having damages watermelon. Inwrap it in the newspaper, put in a bag and suspend.
2. One more option – a shelf storage. Lay straw on racks, from above lay watermelons so that they didn't adjoin with each other. Indoors it is necessary to maintain temperature from +1 to +3 degrees and humidity of 80-85%. Watermelons are periodically examined and overturned. During the laying and survey use cotton gloves.
3. The following method of storage – in sand just as store vegetables. Place watermelons in a box and fill up with sand. Put a box in a cellar.
4. The watermelons which are selected for storage have to be in perfect tune. And it is almost impossible, for example, at long transportation. Bought in shop or in the market it won't be possible to keep, most likely. However watermelons can be salted. And it too very much watermelons and 800 g for averages on 10 liters. Tanks are used plastic or wooden.
5. Very good way – salting watermelon that is called in own juice. For a brine – 400 g of salt on 10 liters of water. On a bottom of capacity water-melon weight gives all the best (for this purpose it is necessary to shatter several watermelons). Then whole watermelons. And again water-melon weight layer of 8-10 cm. Fill in with a brine, you will cork. Storage temperature shouldn't exceed 5 degrees.