Cucumbers stay crunchy for 10 days by doing this one simple thing

Cucumber aficionados take note – a top has divulged an ingenious to avoid your cucumbers turning soggy too soon. Chef Kathleen Ashmore, known on as @katcancook, swears by a trick that can keep your cukes crispy for up to 10 days. Flaunting some very fresh-looking cucumbers in her clip, the culinary whiz declared: "These are 10 days old. I'm going to show you how to store cucumbers so they stay nice, fresh, and crunchy and they don't get soft in three days."

Kat's first piece of advice is to ditch the original packaging, whether boxed or plastic-wrapped, because it isn't ideal for long-term storage. Explaining her strategy further, the guru said: "The way that produce is transported is often not the way that produce should be stored."

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She identified two culprits behind perishable veggies' demise – oxygen and water – and while demonstrating her approach with a paper towel in hand, she revealed: "Too little or too much of either one is going to make them turn on you. Cucumbers are full of water so what we want to do is soak up the moisture."

Sharing her preservation technique step-by-step, she continued: "The first thing I'm going to do is take a silicone bag, or you can use a ziplock bag if that's what you have," reports . "We're going to make my little paper towel sleeping bag and put the rinsed and dried cucumbers in the bag, seal it and put it into the refrigerator," explains the kitchen whiz.

She adds that, "the paper towel is going to help soak up excess moisture to keep your cucumbers fresh." Jokes flooded in as one viewer quipped: "Problem is right after I do this I'm never opening that bag again."

Another added their own witty take: "I just buy them to do mould experiments in the veggie drawer," while a third offered a tip: "I have found that baking paper works even better than paper towels. No idea why, but try it out."