I just started buying strawberries and discovered that I like them very much and that they are very nutritious. The store had them on sale, so I bought a few packages and put 2 of them in the freezer because they don't keep in the fridge very long. Now I took 5 strawberries out of one of the frozen packages and put them in a separate package in the crisper drawer of the fridge to thaw overnight. I tried eating them today but they were terrible! Very mushy and tasteless!
I then went online and googled how to safely thaw frozen strawberries, but everything I found made it sound like there was nothing more to it than what I already did. But I doubt mushy and tasteless is what they're supposed to be after thawing. I can't imagine anyone wanting to eat them that way.
Any ideas? I just want to be able to freeze them so they'll last longer, and then thaw them later and have them taste as good as they would have been before being frozen. I'm assuming someone here in the gardening forum must know.
BTW, I've also tried freezing/thawing blueberries and had the same mushy result.