How to Store Fresh Figs so They Actually Last
Fresh figs are a luxury: they are so delicious, so expensive (in my opinion, Peapod.com sells them for $ 1.17 apiece) and so tragically short-lived. Too often, in my experience (is it me? My fridge?), After I have decided that yes, I will shell out money for a tiny basket of these purple wonders, my hopes are dashed when I discover, sometimes even the next day, that they covered with mold .
Recently, however, in the pages of Illustrated Cook’s July and August 2017 issue , which is not available on the Internet even for print subscribers talking about borders, I found a hot tip on how to care for figs: store them upright in an egg box , each in his own cup. I tried it with 10 fresh figs and after three days only found mold on one of them; normally, most of them would be horribly moldy by then. A word of caution: Out of extra care, I always eat the ripest, most mashed ones first, but after a week the remaining figs were still viable – a phenomenon I’ve never encountered before.