How Much Salad Can Be Stored In The Refrigerator, Including With Mayonnaise

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

How long can salads be kept in the refrigerator

Probably, every person in our country is familiar with the situation when the guests have already left, the relatives have had enough, and bowls and bowls with half-eaten holiday dishes are still waiting on the table. And if a chicken or a cake does not cost anything to hold in the refrigerator for several days, then questions arise with salads. How long can they be stored without the risk of ending the New Years Eve at the acute food poisoning hospital?

How much salads can be stored in the refrigerator

Most salads are perishable dishes. They are not heat treated. They include vegetables and herbs, which wither quickly, losing their presentation and vitamins. Well, if the recipe contains eggs, fish or mayonnaise, the salad bowl turns into a real Petri dish and becomes an ideal breeding ground for bacteria. So the question of the shelf life of this or that salad on holidays is more than relevant.

Approximate shelf life of homemade salads.

1. Dishes with sour cream leave the race first. On the table, they begin to sour within 30 minutes after cooking, although they can last 4 or 5 hours in the refrigerator.

   

   Sour cream salads are the most short-lived

2. Salads with mayonnaise will be more persistent. They can be eaten during the day, although prudent nutritionists advise limiting the storage to 4-6 hours.

   

   Ideally, a salad with mayonnaise should be eaten within 6 hours.

3. Vegetable salads will "live" in the refrigerator for up to 3 days without dressing. Take them out in small portions, pour with mayonnaise, sour cream or butter and serve immediately. True, by the end of the third day, there will be no vitamins or special taste in such a dish, and its appearance will be far from aesthetic.

   

   Vegetable salad can be eaten a couple of days later, only there will be little sense in this

4. The vegetable oil dressing with salt and vinegar serves as a kind of preservative. With her, vegetable salads, which do not contain perishable ingredients, will stay in the refrigerator all New Year's holidays, up to 10 days. A striking example of this is Korean carrots.

   

   Korean-style carrots - long-lived salad

5. If meat, poultry, fish, seafood or eggs are among the ingredients of the dish, it does not matter which dressing you use. In any case, it is desirable to eat it within 12, maximum 18 hours.

   

   Herring under a fur coat is one of the most perishable salads

Video: how to cook Olivier for 3-4 days

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Finally, let's add: the initial freshness of the products used for the salad is also of great importance. If fish for herring under a fur coat or sausage for Olivier have been in your refrigerator for more than a day, then the shelf life of the finished treat will be several times less - take this fact into account.