How to store garlic?

Do you like to flavor your dishes with fragrant garlic? Do you know how to store garlic in the winter in an apartment? If not, and garlic often spoils you, then read the ways and conditions of keeping it at home below.

How to store unrefined garlic in an apartment?

1. The easiest way to store garlic at home is to tie the garlic in the braids, unless of course it was collected together with the grassy part. Where to store the garlic so bound? It is best in a dark cool cellar, hanging garlic braids on the walls or to the ceiling. It is good that the storage temperature is 1-3 degrees below zero. If the room is warmer, the garlic will sprout, if the temperature drops lower - the garlic will freeze, which will not improve its taste qualities, and the beneficial properties it podrasteryaet.
2. Another way to store garlic in cool and dry rooms is to place pre-dried garlic heads in a net or old nylon stockings. The best temperature for storing garlic in this way is 1-3 ° C below zero.
3. You can also save garlic in glass jars. For this, the head of garlic needs to be dried well, the cans are sterilized and also dried. In the prepared cans, put the garlic and tightly cover with plastic covers.
4. There is another way to store garlic at home in glass jars. You need to cut the garlic from stems and roots, dry the head. Glass jars can be washed, dried and put into the heads of garlic, pouring them with flour. Thus the top layer of a flour should create a sufficient barrier for air, its thickness not less than 2 centimeters.
5. If it is not possible to withstand the necessary temperature conditions, then garlic can be stored at room temperature. To do this, you need to prepare plywood boxes - wipe off dust and dry. Next, the bottom of the box should be poured with a coarse grinding salt, and put a layer of dried garlic on top. On top of the garlic again need to pour a layer of salt. Observing such an alternation, we fill the box to the top. Just remember that the shelf life of garlic with increasing temperature becomes less. And it's not even in the germination, decay or drying of denticles, the fact is that over time garlic loses both its aroma and its useful properties. The maximum shelf life of garlic is 8 months, and if kept at room temperature, shelf life may be reduced to 4 months. So garlic, stored at room temperature, after 4 months loses half its useful properties, and after 8 months of storage, all the useful qualities will be lost to them completely. And to use such garlic in food will be less pleasant.
6. As it became clear, to preserve garlic, it is necessary to create a protective barrier against air penetration. Oil works best with this, but it must first be prepared. Sunflower oil should be boiled for 2 hours, and after adding iodine tincture, at the rate of 20 drops per 1 liter of sunflower oil. Garlic heads should be dried well. Then, using a clean cotton swab, apply oil to the garlic heads (do not need to clean the garlic). Next, garlic should be put in the sun and leave it until the oil is absorbed.

How to store peeled garlic?

It is possible to store and peeled garlic and it is done in vegetable oil. You can use any - sunflower, olive and even linseed. The bank needs to be washed and dried, and the garlic is cleaned. Next, the garlic should be densely packed in a jar and poured with oil. This garlic is convenient for cooking, when there is no time to clean it. And oil, too, will go into action, soaked in garlic flavor, it will successfully complement the salads and other dishes.