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Re:Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by zvanness on Sunday July 27, 2014 @04:16PM (#8093850)
My apologies for posting a poorly written article. I came across it through Prismatic (http://getprismatic.com/). From my understanding their content is curated directly by them and not the users.

Just as @jeroen has commented, here is a less confusing article giving the same solution: http://lifehacker.com/5967424/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-s...

Re:Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by opminion on Sunday July 27, 2014 @04:22PM (#8093862)
The posted article is just a cropped (and possibly plagiarised) copy of the one linked at the end of the Lifehacker one:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Keep-Bananas-Fresh-Longer-sl...

It seems that whoever tried to copy the article didn't read it and forgot to include the steps.

Re:Keep Bananas Fresh Longer by japaget on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:07AM (#8095272)
Scroll down further and read the comments to the article at instructables.com. Someone tried the suggestion to cover the stems in plastic wrap and found that it did NOT work.