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Offline mel81q

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Freezing Fruit
« on: September 30, 2009, 08:06:12 am »
I am waiting for my thermomix to arrive and have a (probably stupid) question. A lot of recipes here are using frozen fruits - so are you all cutting them up into small pieces or freezing them whole or in large chunks eg. for the strawberry foam?

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Re: Freezing Fruit
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2009, 08:15:13 am »
whole strawberries here and I haven't used other fruit but would cut it to about strawberry size ;)
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Re: Freezing Fruit
« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2009, 10:39:53 am »
Best not to have frozen chunks that are too big - strawberries are OK whole if not the hormonally huge ones.

most fruit is cut to about ice cube size.  i freeze spread out on trays and then bag so they are less inclined to stick in one horrible mass/mess.

Just makes it easier to blitz them quickly and not have big pieces left not broken down.
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Re: Freezing Fruit
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2009, 12:27:16 pm »
Thanks for that - thermomixer, is there anything you wont freeze (fruit that is)?

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Re: Freezing Fruit
« Reply #4 on: September 30, 2009, 01:41:52 pm »
Thanks for that - thermomixer, is there anything you wont freeze (fruit that is)?

Mel ;D

My kids freeze everything!  Watermelon, apples, berries, mangoes, bananas.. you name it... but then my kids eat frozen fruit salad anyhow... LOL

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Re: Freezing Fruit
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2009, 01:47:44 pm »
Pineapple freezes particularly well and doesn't lose it's colour either.  Love pineapple sorbet and will have to do my next fluff with it too.
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Re: Freezing Fruit
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2009, 01:54:39 pm »
If you are going to use it for sorbet, then anything goes.  If you want to thaw fruit out then strawberries and melons don't do well - but work brilliantly in sorbets.
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