There is an old wife's tale that you cannot
store bananas in the refrigerator. There is a reason for this
myth, bananas do get a dark and ugly skin in the refrigerator.
However, this does not mean the fruit goes bad. Also, they do
not produce gas or other toxins in the cold.
Once bananas are
ripened, they can be kept in a fridge. A banana peel will turn dark
brown, making it appear bad, but the part you eat inside
actually stays quite good. Remove the ugly peel and you will see the flesh
inside is as delicious as ever. You can let it sit out for a
short time to return to room temperature, if desired before
eating.
Bananas can typically
be kept in the refrigerator for about a week, which is
significantly longer than an optimally ripe banana will last at
room temperature. A handy place to store them is in the crisper.
Banana companies
Chiquita and Dole recommend you do this to make the banana last
longer in its perfect ripeness stage. Once a banana reaches its
optimal ripeness for your taste, stick it in the refrigerator to
drastically slow the conversion of starch into sugars, almost to
the point of stopping the ripening process.
It is important not
to put the bananas in the refrigerator before they reach the
level of ripeness you desire. Chiquita says, “If you place your
unripe Chiquita bananas in the refrigerator, they may not be
able to resume the ripening process even if they are returned to
room temperature.”
There are other ways to
keep bananas fresh longer. For instance, you can slow the
ripening process of a banana by keeping the banana away from
other fruits, including separating a banana from the same hand
it came from. Bananas put off large amounts of ethylene,
relative to many other fruits. This triggers and quickens the
ripening process significantly.
Incidentally, if you
would like to speed up the ripening of some green bananas or
other fruit or vegetables, put them in a paper bag together
over night. The trapped ethylene will quickly ripen the fruit,
and the paper bag will still let enough oxygen in to keep the
ripening progress smoothly. Also, putting fresh bananas in
the same container as an overripe banana will rapidly
accelerate the ripening process of the fresh bananas. Related
posts LINK1,
LINK2.
Oct 14, 2016
Airline Seats and Windows
Have you ever noticed that most
airplane windows do no line up with your seat? The reason for
this is that the airline manufacturers place windows as they
believe is the optimum seating arrangement. Airlines decide on
actual seating arrangements, using the flexible tracks in the
plane. So, while one airline might coincidentally line up seats
with windows, others do not. Plane window placements are
standard, seating arrangements are not.
Airport WiFi Passwords
If you want to make travel a bit less
troublesome, there is a tiny free app that can ease your wait
time. It shows the passwords for WiFi at many of the world's
airports. It is constantly updated for you, so check it out for
the next time you have an interminable wait at the terminal. LINK
Pronunciation Poem
The following is the beginning of a poem "The Chaos" The only
way it makes sense is if you know how to correctly pronounce the
words. If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem,
you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native
English speakers in the world.
The poem was written during 1922 by Gerard Nolst Trenité. Here is a LINK to the poem in its entirety. There is also a YouTube version with someone reading it out loud (6 minutes long) LINK. Friday fun diversion.
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak,
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.
The poem was written during 1922 by Gerard Nolst Trenité. Here is a LINK to the poem in its entirety. There is also a YouTube version with someone reading it out loud (6 minutes long) LINK. Friday fun diversion.
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
(Mind the latter how it's written).
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid.
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak,
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.
Windows 10 Tip
If you cannot get into Windows, hold down Shift key when restarting, then go to Troubleshooting options.
Baking Soda Facts
You likely have one or
more boxes of baking soda in your home. Baking
soda can be used for many purposes.
It cleans homes, deodorizes furniture,
exfoliates skin, kills mold, polishes silver,
and more. You can use it to wash your
hair, to make deodorant, and to take the stink
out of sweaty clothes.
Baking soda comes out of the ground in the form of minerals nahcolite and trona, which are refined into soda ash (calcium carbonate), then turned into baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), among other things. Most of it comes from the United States, which contains the world’s largest trona deposit. Nahcolite, a naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, is often found in evaporated lake basins. It is also mined in Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Turkey, and Mexico.
Glass-making consumes about half of the soda ash and the chemical industry uses about a quarter of the output. Other uses include soap, paper manufacturing, and water treatment.
Baking soda comes out of the ground in the form of minerals nahcolite and trona, which are refined into soda ash (calcium carbonate), then turned into baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), among other things. Most of it comes from the United States, which contains the world’s largest trona deposit. Nahcolite, a naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, is often found in evaporated lake basins. It is also mined in Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, Turkey, and Mexico.
Glass-making consumes about half of the soda ash and the chemical industry uses about a quarter of the output. Other uses include soap, paper manufacturing, and water treatment.
Sep 30, 2016
Happy Friday
Life's greatest
achievements came from lack of experience.
Each week I experience a new and wonderful Happy Friday!
Each week I experience a new and wonderful Happy Friday!
Ten Things You Never Knew the Name of
Agraffe: the wired cage that holds the cork in a bottle
of champagne.
Barm: the foam on a beer.
Columella nasi: the space between your nostrils.
Griffonage: unreadable handwriting.
Ideolocator: a “you are here” sign.
Keeper: the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
Obelus: the division sign (÷).
Phloem bundles: those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.
Punt: the bottom of a wine bottle.
Rasceta: the lines on the inside of your wrist.
Barm: the foam on a beer.
Columella nasi: the space between your nostrils.
Griffonage: unreadable handwriting.
Ideolocator: a “you are here” sign.
Keeper: the loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
Obelus: the division sign (÷).
Phloem bundles: those long stringy things you see when peeling a banana.
Punt: the bottom of a wine bottle.
Rasceta: the lines on the inside of your wrist.
Social Media Facts
A surge of new technologies and social media innovations is
altering the media landscape and changing the way people behave.
Over one million books are published worldwide every year. A Google Book Search scanner can digitize 1,000 pages every hour. Americans have access to: 1,000,000,000,000 web pages, 10,500 radio stations, 5,500 magazines, and well over 200 cable TV networks.
There are 240,000,000 TVs in the US. More than 2,000,000 of them are in bathrooms.
Newspaper circulation is down 7 million over the last twenty five years, but in the last five years, unique readers of online newspapers are up over 30 million.
Traditional advertising is in steep decline while digital advertising is growing rapidly. More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC, NBC, CBS had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948 (when ABC started broadcasting).
The number of unique visitors Myspace, YouTube, and Facebook receive every month, collectively is over 250 million. None of these sites existed 6 years ago. Wikipedia launched in 2001 and now features over 13 million articles in more than 200 languages.
Over one million books are published worldwide every year. A Google Book Search scanner can digitize 1,000 pages every hour. Americans have access to: 1,000,000,000,000 web pages, 10,500 radio stations, 5,500 magazines, and well over 200 cable TV networks.
There are 240,000,000 TVs in the US. More than 2,000,000 of them are in bathrooms.
Newspaper circulation is down 7 million over the last twenty five years, but in the last five years, unique readers of online newspapers are up over 30 million.
Traditional advertising is in steep decline while digital advertising is growing rapidly. More video was uploaded to YouTube in the last 2 months than if ABC, NBC, CBS had been airing new content 24/7/365 since 1948 (when ABC started broadcasting).
The number of unique visitors Myspace, YouTube, and Facebook receive every month, collectively is over 250 million. None of these sites existed 6 years ago. Wikipedia launched in 2001 and now features over 13 million articles in more than 200 languages.
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