Talk:Food storage

Pork

I find the statement in this page that "pork must be eaten within one day" slightly peculiar. Pork (apparently, I'm not a butcher) should be hung for a period after slaughter, if only to drain off the blood.

Yes Pork , in common with all other meats, must be drained of blood , but this only takes a few minutes. The difference between Pork and many other meats such as Beef, Venison, Horse and all the game birds such as Pheasant, Grouse, Duck etc. is that these latter meats are often hung for a period of up to 5 or 6 days in a chill room for the meat to age or mature . This develops tenderness and taste and allows some prime cuts to be eaten almost raw. Pork does not improve in this way and is also at significant risk of contamination with parasites most notably Ascarid worms and flukes. Hence the advice to cook and eat as soon as practicable - ageing pork gives no benefit but adds health risks. Velela (talk) 11:26, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Food storage containers

The above item redirects here, but here's nothing in the article on the subject (!!??). We're not talking shipping containers here, but the Rubbermaid, Tupperware, Pyrex etc. type of things. 76.97.245.5 (talk) 17:03, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Link fixed. New article stubbed. Velela ^{Velela Talk} 22:46, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Use of stored food

The article says, whole grains and unpreserved foods are often much healthier than processed foods from the grocery store as well. However, the source citation doesn't say that processed foods are less healthy than whole grains, only that whole grains are healthy. Traal (talk) 20:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree - I have re-written the paragraph to be less POV and slightly more global - not everyone has supermarkets or enjoys home-baked food. Velela ^{Velela Talk} 20:38, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Use of hexagons in construction

Wouldn't a section or a new article regarding "Use of Hexagon's in construction" be useful ? Apparently, bees have chosen the hexagon since it requires less material than making i.e. the combs from triangles. Thus, it is still a very good construction shape i.e. when building storage cells (i.e. for food, ...) 91.182.241.204 (talk) 13:22, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you have reliably source information that hexagons are used by humans to store food, then please feel free to add it to the article, otherwise I suggest creating Food storage by insects. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 15:07, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]