As long as they are not a real hard freeze, i eat any blueberry, blackberry, strawberry, pineapple frozen.
Here it doesn't matter for months on end if I - by mistake - leave fruit, milk, etc. - in the trunk of the car overnight. It's so cold that it acts as a refrigerator...I don't think frozen berries are any good other than for juices, smoothies or cooking.
The flavour and texture of the natural fruit is just not there.
Some parts of Canada are susceptible to early frosts: watch out for fruit that may be spoilt if still unpicked...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.
Wow! It would be maybe OK in winter but would surely curdle here at the moment (today is 34C)Here it doesn't matter for months on end if I - by mistake - leave fruit, milk, etc. - in the trunk of the car overnight. It's so cold that it acts as a refrigerator...
I'm sure you're right about the taste of frozen berries...
I suppose experiment. But it seems the longer you keep anything, in any way, the older it gets. And age can change the nutritional value of a food.Any ideas?
Well they aren’t going to be the same as fresh no matter what you do. The only choices are to buy less, or enjoy them differently to some degree.I guess eating them individually after they've been frozen isn't going to be an option then. That's what I got them for, but I guess I'll have to just buy what I can use in a week, and no more.
A lot hotter than up here!Wow! It would be maybe OK in winter but would surely curdle here at the moment (today is 34C)
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