Chestnuts put a long time of storage methods are direct ventilation storage, container filling storage, refrigerator fresh storage and so on.

1, direct ventilation storage

Fresh chestnuts bought home, directly placed in a cool, ventilated place to dry 2 to 3 days, pay attention 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, and then placed in the refrigerator fresh place to keep fresh for a month or two is also not a problem at all, and chestnuts do not evaporate moisture.

Selection of chestnut tips:

1, about the size of the chestnut

Many people like to buy things to buy big, that the bigger is the better, in fact, is not the case, buy chestnuts will find that the size of the chestnuts is not the same, there are very large chestnuts, some very small chestnuts, in fact, this is with the The origin has a relationship, because the small chestnuts are usually said to be earth chestnuts, this chestnut to eat is very sweet, can be said to be the chestnuts in the best, and there are some chestnuts although it seems to be very big, but not sweet enough, and not soft enough.

2, look at the color of the chestnuts

When buying chestnuts must carefully look at the color of the chestnuts, so that you can identify the new chestnuts or old chestnuts, the new chestnuts have a thin layer of downy hair cover, the surface is not smooth, and on the contrary, the surface is smooth and even a little shiny, then the color is very dark brown, this is most likely to be old chestnuts, it is better to not buy.

3, look at the shape of the chestnuts

Round chestnuts look carefully and will find that one side is round, but the other side is a straight edge, this chestnut is mostly grown in the shell of the 2 kinds of edge parts, by the light will be more, compared to the flat chestnuts are generally sandwiched in the middle of the light, this is less, round chestnuts taste is relatively better.