I find the elastic helps prevent the bag from coming loose, sticking out and getting caught on everything.I do the same as Roch, although I use a tall glass and don't put elastic on it. I just wrap the plastic loosely around the glass.
Has anyone chopped the tops off and planted the roots with success? I have a bunch of fresh cilantro in a jar right now with a baggie over it...wondering why I can't pot the roots in one of my herb pots...
I use a tall yogurt container and put about an inch or two of water in it. I place the cilantro roots in the water then use the food grade bag to cover the leaves and then use the elastic to put around the bag and yogurt container. This creates a bit of a hydroponic greenhouse. It goes in the bottom shelf of the fridge door..
It lasts for a couple of weeks this way. When I remember, I change the water and weed out any dying or rotting stalks/leaves...Crude set up but effective.
Here is my parsley. I bought this stuff about two weeks ago.
We usually get roots. Stems work the same way. though. I put mine in the door because the rail stops the container from tipping over...
This is one reason I love this forum. I can go on endlessly about storing cilantro and people actually listen...lol
I find the elastic helps prevent the bag from coming loose, sticking out and getting caught on everything.
Thanks for the replies---- and I did do that a couple of times until I knocked the container over! I'm sure your fridge is not as cluttered as mine and I'm a klutz! (grin)
I bought a small plant that was labelled "coriander". Maybe it's slightly different if it's more for the seeds than for the leaves. The leaves did taste like cilantro, but didn't get used because I don't like cilantro. I got lots of seeds and had volunteer coriander for a few years.
Sometimes cilantro gets mis-labled (to my mind) as coriander in nurseries.
Coriander is the fresh leaves and if you let the plant flower and go to seed---- you get coriander seed. Which is what you seem to have done.
In some places I've even seen it labeled Mexican Parsley!!!
but if you freeze them, will be they be good to eat fresh, like in a salad?