Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!halle1 From: halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: Re: storing cottage cheese, etc upsidedown? Message-ID: <693@houxz.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 08:59:20 EST Article-I.D.: houxz.693 Posted: Wed Mar 7 08:59:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 07:37:17 EST References: <1565@tekig1.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 5 We have been doing it for years. It really does work. Cottage cheese and sour cream both keep longer upside down, well past the expiration date. If on occasion we forget to invert them, the lifetime does decrease significantly. I'm not sure why it works, but I'll bet it has something to do with sealing the lid from air circulation.