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gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 9:17 am Post subject: Freezing Beans.
I try not to freeze beans as they always seem to go to mush.Thisyear we have loads already. What is the best way of dealing with them so they taste ok.?

Liz in Ireland

Joined: 27 Jan 2009
Posts: 1287

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 9:25 am Post subject:
What sort? I blanche runners/green beans and they seem to be OK.

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9715
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 9:26 am Post subject:
what kind of beans? green beans are best blanched/chilled before freezing - runners are never so good frozen.. we still do though, when we have too many French climbing bean limka is a flat bean you can slice like runners, but the freeze much better

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 9:28 am Post subject:
Bottle in weak brine and then bain marie - can help keep the crunch.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 9:30 am Post subject:
I think the key is to blanch and then cool very quickly, to stop them cooking (and softening) further. Which means dunking straight into iced water as soon as they come off the stove. This gives better results, although I still don't like frozen beans at all.

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 9:31 am Post subject:
We have yellow and green dwarf french beans,and dwarf Lingua du Fuoco.

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 9:33 am Post subject:
The more you can dry them after blanching the better too. And if you can freeze onto a tray then bag once frozen that works better again.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 10:44 am Post subject:
I have heard of salting beans in a kilner - never tried it though andnot sure of the results but perhaps it might be a good experiment?

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 10:58 am Post subject:
Judith was about to try it in 2005 so she should be quite the expert by now.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 11:05 am Post subject:

sean wrote:

Judith was about to try it in 2005 so she should be quite the expert by now.

Enjoy them while they're fresh is my considered opinion!

catbaffler

Joined: 31 Mar 2009
Posts: 937
Location: Barry

Posted: Tue Jul 12, 11 11:14 am Post subject:
I bought this recently https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1933392592/ref=oss_product Haven't tried anything yet but it looks interesting.

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