Well – that was easy. It only took months, right? For me to get some results from one of these experiments?
So, I took the final photos of the strawberry arrays tonight, and have *gasp* declared a result. It’s been 12 days since I started this experiment.
I gotta say, the Green Bags came out ahead. The bagless set is virtually mummified – shrunken, mushy, and one of them has grown some kind of pelt. The plain plastic bags remained firm, but also furry. The Green Bag set was both firm and nasty, but clearly less fuzzy than the others.But things got interesting when I took a look inside.
Both bagged sets were both brown and oogie (Your tuition dollars at work, Dad) on internal inspection, while the open air group appears less foul. No taste tests were conducted because you people don’t pay me enough.
Next up: Lettuce. I have determined, after much deliberation, to go with one head of iceberg cut into four pieces. Why? Stay tuned.
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Ew.
I guess the instant gratification is nice and all, but the 6-pack rings, at least, don’t grow a filthy culture. *shudder*
OHHH – - and a critical question here – it seems like the open-air berries suffered the worst, the fastest, and that both the greenbag and clearbag samples decayed as well.
What was the point at which you considered the bagged berries inedible, though? I mean, the greenbagged ones had their fair share of slime – - I’m curious if the clearbagged ones just grew mold more quickly *after* matching the greenbagged ones for sliminess?
(terribly convoluted comment I know, but any impressions?)
You ask a very good question, Matt. I had not thought to make an “eatability” assessment. Will totally do so with the new array – thanks! With the berries, it was pretty shortly after the test started. As I mentioned, they were looking kind of peaked at the beginning. But strawberries have a super short window, as far as I’m concerned.
The mold started at roughly the same time for both sets of bagged berries, by my observation. The clear bag grew more robustly.
Yeah, I never really buy strawberries because usually 10% of them are rotten by the time I get them home. Squickfood.
I’m curious about the lettuce!