canned fruit and vegetable land construction
We preserved fresh food using organic or biological products. We have a wide variety of vegetables harvested daily, eat in or carry out assiduously preserved. The flavors, colors, textures and aromas of these foods make the quality of the products that we specify in Taique. Overseeing the process of production and manufacturing also marks the product quality. Preserving food
dehydration or drying, keeping the "camera", freezers and also develop preserved. Our premise is to produce quality, for which production counterseason avoided by amendment or fertilizer and / or frost protection systems that have to have a low organoleptic quality product and therefore nutrition. We have greenhouses to grow those vegetables susceptible to frost but only in the growing season in Patagonia and depending on the year will not exceed 6 months. We do not use any heating, because we believe that energy expenditure is large and the product quality is not optimal. We as drying
: solar dryer , clay ovens, racks with sieves. All these devices operate with a clean source like the sun or a renewable source such as firewood. In all cases there is no contamination products of combustion and physical agents, biological or chemical that could impair its quality. We dried herbs, apples, tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms and other foods.
Drying tomatoes is our specialty and we consider a gourmet product of high nutritional value and unique taste we developed following a careful process. The flavor of the sugar itself and with reddish stains that keeps oil are excellent features of this product.
Other appropriate technology is the underground storage of fruits and vegetables, real "cameras" that keep temperatures and humidity to ensure that the food does not lose water or become dehydrated, keep breathing levels to a minimum and bring an end to their own maturation. By this method we keep potatoes, beets, carrots, apples and other possibilities. The Chenque as it is known in this area is a very efficient way of preserving food without higher energy costs, only choosing a nice shady and cool. We use mass of 1 m wide and a depth between 50 and 100cm which depends on the product to be preserved. The length of it depends on the amount we hold.
tubers and roots are harvested in April and December can reach under optimal conditions. Development can only start growing when temperatures are not as low, so we must be attentive to these moments. That's when chemical and physical transformation of the food quality deteriorates.
apples harvested in April after the first frosts take the Chenque soft, cover with plastic and recapped. We selected these fruits for variety, with some varieties like the golden consumed within 4 months of storage. Others like Idared consumed more than 6 months of harvest. In all cases we must separate those codling moth attacks fruit, as the respiratory activity is higher and rapidly deteriorates state and other fruits contiguous storage. We noticed a higher turgor
, ie they are more crisp than those fruits that are summering on dry grass or in boxes with newspaper. These are also solutions avoid low temperatures, but water loss from the fruit is larger, so for those familiar with a rich and crunchy apple can be a drawback.
chopped apples with those we get the damaged parts and tailor high quality dried apricots. The slices of no more than 1cm thick is placed in brine to prevent oxidation of tissues and then drained are put in screens in hot and dry, usually on wood stoves. Another use of the apple is making pickles or chutney pures as we bring to the freezer.
During the harvest we use the plaster floor as reception of fruit that otherwise would have to collect in lined baskets for the harvest. The grass to avoid contact with the ground and is a cushion that absorbs shock between fruit and soil. On the other hand is very easy to make the selection of them in situ.
elaborate tomato chutney, apples, onion, currants and other fruits. Tomatoes can be used green or ripe fruit but we prefer to reach their optimum ripeness and red sauces get a good taste, soft texture, with all components of the same mixeados so as to achieve a homogeneous product. We
cucumber pickles, cherry tomatoes, carrots, broccoli, peppers using fresh-picked produce. Add vinegar, water, salt and sugar to achieve acid as a product but whose retention time is not diminished. We also fermented pickles whose acceptance for the Argentine palate is not high so that we retain the first recipe of soft mixed pickles or a species such as cucumbers.
years
The hot peppers ripen. A cucumber in the photo above to the right and came the autumn, after harvest season nearly three months. We collected daily or two days cucumbers not exceed 3cm in diameter, taking care not to leave unharvested for more than two days due to the rapid growth of the fruits in greenhouse conditions.