Fresh Root Ginger

parsonswife8

If you buy it loose in the supermarket, you can buy a small piece. I just snap a bit off a larger piece and stick it in one of those plastic bags.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Grate it from frozen and you get a less grainy texture in cooking.

Agapanthus

It keeps for quite some time even in the fridge. I've kept it for several weeks. I open the bag so it doesn't stay too wet. It dries out a bit like that, but that doesn't seem to affect its cooking qualities.

Willowx

You can freeze it and it is quite easy to grate or chop a chunk off from frozen.

2009ismyyear

I always grate mine then freeze it, it's easy to break of a chunck when you need it and I just chuck it in to the dish frozen

meritaten

you can buy a fairly small peice in the supermarket - or if they only have huge pieces break some off! you are buying it by wieght you can do that.
it keeps for a few weeks in the fridge or it will freeze. i tend to use about an inch so i freeze one inch chunks! (I keep them in the ice cube bank so they dont get lost).
i dont bother defrosting them - you can grate them frozen - but i do make sure the skins are still thin when i freeze them or i peel them if the skins are hard and thick! (maybe just me but i hate bits of hard skin).

Karmacat

Can I ask a real noob question? What do you do with the skin, do you peel that off? The skin looks yuck to me - it looks like it'd be like eating banana skins or watermelon rind or something.

jackieglasgow

You peel it off.

Karmacat

jackieglasgow wrote: »

You peel it off.

Thanks! Do you have to boil it or anything first? How easy is it to peel? :o:o Thinking about container gardens here, too....

jackieglasgow

It peels easily with a knife when raw. I've never tried to grow it, so no idea about that, sorry.