How to freeze different vegetables?

avinabacca

nettles77 wrote: »

as will never get through them this week. How long will they freeze for? Thanks

No need to freeze - they're in a sack, keep them in the sack in somewhere like the shed or a cool, dark cupboard and you'll be able to use them fresh for a good while.

Seakay

As long as the sack isn't plastic they will be fine in it without freezing for a couple of weeks.
If it's to be longer you might want to separate the onions so that they don't 'infect' the rest
Onions would be ok not in a sack as long as they have nice thick skins, they seem so prefer having a bit of air around them (hence French onion strings?)
Carrots and potatoes prefer the dark, but will go off more quickly if they are sweating in a plastic bag.
I usually only freeze root veg as part of cooked or part cooked dishes - if you are really worried about storing the bulk you could double up on whatever you are making anyway this week and freeze the extra.
Do not freeze raw potatoes - they go very yucky!

dreamyd

How about this idea? Can't remember where I got it from.
Get a pair of old tights and push the onions into them,knotting the tights between each one and at the waistband. Hang the tights up somewhere cool and dry, then when you need an onion, just cut through the tights and release however many you need.
What about putting your other veg in an old cotton pillowcase which will allow them to 'breathe' while keeping most of the light off them.

rachbc

ahhh tights full of onions - takes me right back to my youth when my parents pyo onions every autumn and hung the tights up in the shed!

Olliebeak

dreamyd wrote: »

How about this idea? Can't remember where I got it from.
Get a pair of old tights and push the onions into them,knotting the tights between each one and at the waistband. Hang the tights up somewhere cool and dry, then when you need an onion, just cut through the tights and release however many you need.......

Love that idea - thanks dreamyd :T.

rosieben

I agree about storing potatoes in sacks; I used to buy nets of onions, swede and parsnips too and store them all in a frost free shed and they kept really well, except for the year the mice found them....:eek:

I still buy potatoes in a sack and they do usually keep for ages, but the last couple of years they have not stored well. I used them up as quickly as I could by making loads of mash for the freezer, in future I'll keep a closer eye on them.

amanda40

I suffer from RA, so get my mum to bulk chop carrotts, onions and peppers for me then freeze them all in bags. They are all for adding to stews, casseroles at a later date and always come out fine.

southernscouser

You know the ones that come all leafed up (I don't know how else to describe it :rotfl:)?

Can they be stripped and frozen?

If so, do they need to be defrosted to cook, or just chuck them in boiling water like the mini frozen ones I buy? :undecided

PollyFlinders_3

We tried freezing whole cobs a couple of years ago and were really disappointed - they went a bit "mealy"

If you strip the kernals off the cob, you can freeze them and use them like frozen peas (i.e. bung in boiling water and bring back to the boil). You'll need a heavy duty sharp knife to cut the kernals from the cob.

mummysaver

I've frozen them whole before, and then bbq'd them or wrapped in foil and bunged in oven, seemed to work fairly well, but then baked corn tastes a little bit diff to boiled, so perhaps I would've noticed a difference if I'd boiled the cobs.