Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: plotnumberseven on December 30, 2007, 21:00
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Hello Everyone, I have always blanched vegetables before freezing them, but recently a friend told me she just strings, slices and bags runner beans before sticking them in the freezer!!!!! What does anyone else have to say about this?! :shock:
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Never blanched mine!
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We don't freeze a great enough variety, so I do not have much expertise but I think it is safe enough to say, depends what it is. As your mate and DD says with the beans , no need.
I also freeze herbs, spinach, celery, cauli, broccoli, peas, broad beans unblanched. And summer fruits.
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blanched mine, had a little production line going, dunk and boil for two mins, into a cool water to take heat out, into freezing water, into colander to strain and into freezer bags.
Keep beans in a metal colander, or chip fryer basket (small holes as poss), makes it ten times easier.
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If you don't blanch them then their freezer life tends to be limited. If you intend to use them within 4-6 months then no problem. If you intend to keep them for longer than that then I suggest you blanch them first (advice given on the basis of years of experience)
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