Chestnut storage and preservation methods are: direct ventilation storage, container filling storage, refrigerator fresh storage.

1, direct ventilation storage

Fresh chestnuts bought home, directly placed in a cool ventilated place to dry for 2 to 3 days, pay attention to not be exposed to the sun, can not be drying time is too long, if the loss of moisture chestnuts is too much, very much affects the texture, it does not taste good.

2, container filling storage

Direct ventilation storage method is the simplest, but prone to a problem is that the chestnut moisture evaporates quickly, you can mix chestnuts with the right humidity straw, loaded into jars and other containers to save, but also with sand and wood chips to fill the container, pay attention to fill the material is clean and dry.

3, refrigerator fresh storage

With the refrigerator fresh chestnuts is also a good way, the same is to pick out the bad chestnuts, soaked in salt water after cleaning, slightly dry moisture, placed in a plastic bag tied mouth, placed in the refrigerator fresh, keep fresh for a month or two is also not a problem at all, and chestnuts do not evaporate moisture.

Chestnut selection method

1, see chestnut shells have holes do not buy

Chestnuts are very easy to grow insects, this is because the chestnut itself with sweetness, so it is easy to attract insects, then pick chestnuts, to take a close look at the chestnut shells, if there are small holes, do not buy this kind of chestnut, the quality is very poor. The quality is particularly poor.

2, see the chestnut shell color is not right do not buy

Fresh chestnut color is brownish red, then if you see the chestnut shell has been blackened, or not brownish red, this chestnut do not buy, belong to the chestnuts are not fresh, and not fresh chestnuts from the appearance of the chestnuts look intact, but peeled shells will be found chestnut kernels have been bad, bright eyes to identify carefully, so that will not be easily The first thing you need to do is to buy a bad chestnut.

3, smell a strange chestnut do not buy

Fresh chestnuts do not carefully smell basically no taste, smell carefully, there will be a fruit flavor, and some chestnuts smell strange, then it may be a problem of chestnuts, do not buy this encounter.