Hi Leslie: I am interested in their sanitation, ease of staking and storage,
cost effectiveness, ease of washing, and any other issues related to
differences in both material. Thanks, Mosbah Kushad University of Illinois
From: apple-crop-boun...@virtualorchard.net
Both need care, after a few years you also have to repair bins plastic soles,
it's less easy compared to wood.
We had some years ago, off flavor in apple (specially industrial compote).
Studies determined that wood treatments were involved.
Wood treatments are done very early in the wood
You may well be correct, David, in your assessment of off-flavors associated
with storage odors even at the grocery store level. Personally, I am never
certain whether I am tasting an off-flavor from the storage or whether the wax
that grocery stores require impart an off flavor. Or perhaps
I store apples in modified 6-gallon milk crates, and have noticed that the foul
odor develops during our 5-month storage
period. It is the same odor that I recall having smelled from fruit in wooden
crates at Cornell's storages (Ithaca) in the 1960's.
Our storage has never held wooden
