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Check out our recommendations on how to celebrate Pick Strawberries Day to the fullest and keep those tasty berries as fresh as the day you got them!

Summer will be here before we know it. With the spring months getting warmer and warmer, it can only mean one thing: it&rsquo;s strawberry season! We all know that strawberries are a delicious fruit that can be used for many different culinary fixings, but here&rsquo;s the catch &ndash; they are also highly perishable.
With May 20 being National Pick Strawberries Day, we want to help you make sure it&rsquo;s the most successful harvest yet! It&rsquo;s no secret that strawberries are best while they&rsquo;re ripe, so you&rsquo;re going to want to keep your newly picked gems fresh for as long as possible. If you&rsquo;re in doubt or not sure what to do with your freshly picked strawberries, check out our recommendations on how to celebrate National Pick Strawberries Day to the fullest and keep those tasty berries as fresh as the day you got them!
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<h2>Picking the Best Strawberries</h2>
Whether you grow your own strawberries and pick them from your personal patch or go to a &ldquo;you pick&rdquo; berry patch, there are a couple of important tips that will ensure you get the best quality berries this year. When you&rsquo;re looking in the patch, we recommend practicing the following:
<ul>
<li>Always pick fully ripe berries: Strawberries don&rsquo;t continue to ripen, they only continue to age. So if the berry isn&rsquo;t fully red, it would be best to leave it on the vine.</li>
<li>Don&rsquo;t get too greedy by stuffing your container/basket: Strawberries are very delicate and can bruise easily when pushed up against each other.</li>
<li>Remember that freshly picked strawberries are best consumed or preserved within one to two days, so keep that in mind when making your selections.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Before You Eat </h2>
Okay, now that you&rsquo;ve gathered up your loot of strawberries, your mouth is probably watering and chomping at the bit to take a bite out of one of those scrumptious, little beauties.&nbsp;However, you&rsquo;ll need to resist the temptation for just a bit longer!
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Before you start stuffing your face with your strawberries, you&rsquo;ll need to rinse them off. We recommend washing them all using cold water and then patting them dry with paper towels or a completely clean cloth. Once they&rsquo;re dry, get ready to start reaping the benefits from your hard work and immediately begin enjoying your delicious strawberries on National Pick Strawberries Day!
<h2>Keeping Your Strawberries Fresh</h2>
As we mentioned earlier, strawberries (especially hand-picked) are extremely delicate and are best eaten or saved within just a couple of days of being picked. That means if you want to enjoy your strawberries for longer than that very short time frame, you&rsquo;ll need to store them away in the fridge properly. Our best advice to keep those delicious strawberries as fresh as possible is to keep them in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator.
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When left outside or anywhere else in the fridge, strawberries can mold and become spoiled very quickly. When keeping them in the crisper drawer, setting the humidity to a higher setting will help preserve your strawberries for much longer than just Pick Strawberries Day. Also, if you do have the choice between a moist or dry zone in your refrigerator, pick the moist option.
If your current fridge&rsquo;s crisper drawer isn&rsquo;t equipped with these types of climate controls, it may be time for an upgrade! We offer the best selection of modern refrigerators to match your lifestyle &ndash; and keep your strawberries as fresh as the day you picked them. <a href="https://www.carlsappliance.net/contacts/" target="_blank">Call</a> us with any questions you&nbsp;may&nbsp;have about the best refrigerator for you!
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The sunshine is lasting longer and longer outside every day, and summer is quickly approaching. But there&rsquo;s no way we can end spring without celebrating National Pick Strawberries Day! Last year showed us that we&rsquo;re more interested than ever in buying and consuming locally grown foods, and this is a great way to spend part of your May 20 this year.
And if you&rsquo;re worried your newly harvested strawberries might not last very long with your current fridge setup, a new&nbsp;and improved&nbsp;refrigerator could make a huge difference in keeping them (and all of your produce) fresh for days to come. <a href="https://www.carlsappliance.net/catalog/refrigeration/" target="_blank">Shop our top selection of reliable refrigerators</a> from trusted brands and make this the best Pick Strawberries Day ever!

Celebrate National Pick Strawberries Day (Then Keep Them Fresh!)

Kitchen in disarray? Here’s some storage tips to put you back in control of your kitchen!

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Kitchens can easily become a mess. Between cooking, eating, cleaning, and storing, they have their work cut out for them. Balancing all of that along with work and the kids and &ndash; and oh, look, there the dog goes eating something off the counter again &ndash; can be a chore for even the most talented of homemakers.
The best bet is to try to get ahead of the battle by having storage solutions for everything that lives in the kitchen. By having places for everything, you&rsquo;ll know where to return stuff when you are done with it, instead of just leaving it behind to take up precious counter space. And after putting in all the work to organize everything and seeing your kitchen in its cleanest glory, it&rsquo;s likely you&rsquo;ll want to keep it that way.
The needs of every kitchen are different, but we put together some ideas to help make the best use of the space you have and to organize your kitchen your own way.
1. Use those walls
Sure, they are there to keep your ceiling up, but walls can be used for plenty of other things, as well!
You could wall mount a plate rack or grab some wall hangers and use that space for pots and pans. It will help give you more room in those cluttered cabinets to move some of the bigger and bulkier items out of the drawers and on to the walls.
2. Mug Shots
Coffee &ndash; or tea, for you fancy folk out there &ndash; mugs can take up a lot of space, especially as you start to collect cool ones you find. Not only that, but they often aren&rsquo;t easily stacked, with different ones coming in different sizes and shapes.
What to do with all of them, then? Display them! You could go with a mug rack with hanging hooks, dedicate a whole wall of your kitchen to a mug display, or use some under cabinet hooks to really maximize your mug space. The more mugs the better, we always say!
3. Merry-go-round
Some kitchens just have awkward corners that don&rsquo;t seem to help much when it comes to storage. That&rsquo;s not always true, though! Corners can be just as useful as shelves or cabinets for storing your kitchenware.
How, you might ask? Turn that corner into a carousel! Grab a carousel rack and turn that once-neglected corner into a master of organized cabinetry. And one that&rsquo;s fun to spin around, of course.
4. Knifing around
Looking for a cool and unique way to display your kitchen knives? Try out an in-counter knife slot. We wouldn&rsquo;t recommend trying to put one in yourself, but it gives you an option to do something a little more colorful with your cutlery.
5. Spices
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Life without spice just wouldn&rsquo;t be life, now would it? Perfect for adding that extra little bit of pizzazz to whatever it is you are cooking, spices can also tend to accumulate and take over the kitchen.
Fret not: There&rsquo;s no need to contribute to waste by throwing them away, you just need a more organized and seasoned approach. Spice racks are a good way to do this, and they make racks of all shapes and sizes that can go almost anywhere in your kitchen.
6. Don&rsquo;t wine
Wine bottles &ndash; while an important part of any kitchen &ndash; can also quickly take up counter space. Try throwing a little artistic direction into your alcohol storage! Wine racks are always one way to go, but the internet is full of unique and creative solutions for wine lovers of all kinds. You paid good money for that wine, after all, so you might as well make it a display piece, too!
Need more ideas? Come visit us and talk to one of our expert sales associates on how to create your most organized kitchen to date.

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Kitchen in disarray? Here’s some storage tips to put you back in control of your kitchen!

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