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    Food Safety: Keeping Food Fresh Ideas relating to canning all types of foods, can also cover freezing for preservation, long term storage, avoiding spoilage and other safety concerns.

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    Old 07-15-2002, 08:21 AM
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    Freezing Green Beans
    Every time I freeze green beans and later use some for a meal...they are tough! What in the world am I doing wrong???
    Are they too mature or will they never taste like fresh picked?

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    Did you blanch them first? (Dip into boiling water for 20seconds, then plunge into icy water, then dry, then bag and freeze)
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    yes agreed, we blanch for a bit longer though so they are partially cooked then frozen, perhaps a minute in the boiling water

    also make sure you are picking young beans, and blanching immediately
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