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Today's green(purple) bean harvest. {And a question on preserving} (lemmy.zip)

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First year growing beans, and they've been doing really good. I've blanched them for about 2 minutes, followed by an ice bath. Dried and then put in bags to freeze. First batch I don't think I fully dried before freezing and had a lot of ice crystals in the bag. Second batch was much more dry after blanching, but still had a bunch of ice crystals. Wondering if thats normal, or will reduce how long they stay good?

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[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

buy frozen berries or fruit brand-new from the store it always has the exact same amount of water crystals on the outside from freezer damage?

If they are consistent with their process yeah, you can always tell when it’s someone different if you regularly buy it, you can also tell which ones were in the middle and protected by the others, since there’s basically no crystals in those ones.

The ones that are bad you can tell by just feeling them, since they’re all frozen together instead of individual pieces like they should be. Or the crystals are flaking off.

And I don’t know about you, but my brand new store berries aren’t frozen, that’s why you buy them, since they’re fresh and non frozen.