My apples. They scare me.
I bought a bag of green apples back at the end of August when I first moved here. I ate most of them. The remaining two retreated to the back of my fruit drawer, behind newer and more appealing apples. They waited, silently and patiently, for me to discover them nearly three months later.
And they look practically unchanged.
The only difference is they have acquired a certain clammy quality that warns me that they are mealy. I can't stand mealy apples, but I like applesauce, so technically I could transform them into applesauce and thereby avoid any guilt that tossing them would incur.
Yet... somehow their longevity makes me uncomfortable. Back in China, we would keep winter apples in the cold entryway. They would shrivel up but remain edible. Yet these apples show no signs of aging. I know they're not organic (as in organically-grown), but are they organic (as in carbon-based)?
Perhaps I should return them to their drawer and wait until they rot, and avoid my quandary.
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Or until they come out on their own....
Soo, one of the things people do to make food last forever... quite interesting cases happened over here... a truck load of seafood turned out to have too many bacteria in it and was rejected at the border by the authorities... so it went away to Holland, but came back a couple of weeks later with no bacteria in the exact same shrimps... (magic?) No, they visited an irradiation facility... basically you pass your stuff through some nuclear facility and it gets sterilized by the radiation. The bad thing with this is that whatever toxins the bacteria were making... that may cause health problems are not zapped out of existence, and zapping anything causes it to form free radicals that can give you cancer.... just the living bacteria disappear, so you have no way of detecting that the food is OLD... and it will magically last forever...
I don't think they'd do that with apples though... they have really long natural shelf life.
They may have been less than ripe when they were picked -- but OH MAN I HATE MEALY APPLES , too!!Yiccccccch.
Birds/Squirrels -- or -- applesauce?
I'd go with the wildlife, personally - but that's just me.
Or you could by some whole cloves and push the cloves into the apples and let them dry in the air - they can be turned into nicely-scented hanging thingies -but you need to be sure they're drying and not rotting. Cloves must completely cover the surface...
A few weeks ago, I decided to only buy organic apples, because apples conventionally get quite a bit of pesticides, even more than the average fruit or veggie.