Freezing products allows you to extend their freshness. Using this treatment for fruit, we can enjoy their taste longer even out of season. Unfortunately, if we do it incorrectly, they will lose their taste. In the case of strawberries, they can divorce and lose their firmness. How to prevent it and how to properly freeze fruit? We explain.
It is a popular mistake during freezing selection of incorrect specimens. We should not put fruit in the freezer that is damaged, soft or overripe. These pieces are better to spend, for example, on jam or sauce. However, for freezing, use strawberries that are fresh and firm.
Another thing we should not do is cutting off stalks, because when rinsing strawberries, this is where water will get insidewhich after thawing the fruit will negatively affect their consistency.
Therefore, it is worth knowing how to freeze strawberries. After carefully selected fruit, we wash them in cold water, gently turning them with a hand under the tap and avoiding strong scrubbing. Then before We pour To the bag, put them individually on the tray so that they do not touch. We put them in this form in the freezer for about 1-2 hours.
Thanks to this, the fruit will not crumble and do not release juices and keep their original taste. Only after this time We pull out strawberries and put them carefully into string bagsand then place in the freezer.
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It is also important how we defrost strawberries. Seemingly it is nothing complicated, but this process also affects the consistency and taste of fruit. We usually place frozen products outside the fridge so that thawing goes more efficiently.
However, this is a mistake, because the product treated in this way can lose a significant part of nutritional values. A much better idea is slowly increasing the temperature of the fruit by translating them from the freezer into the fridge. It is also worth additionally drying with sugar to protect the fruit against excessive oxygen.
