The Blonde Diaries

What is Flash Freezing?

I keep reading over and over in multiple message board posts about the concept of flash freezing. Actually, I read that people are doing it but not what it is exactly, how you do it, or why you want to do it. So after being frustrated for longer than necessary I decided to just look it up. Thank goodness for the internet. I don’t know what I would do without it in cases like these.

Here is the low down on what I found out about flash freezing from the various sites I visited:

• Flash freezing just seems to be a fancy name for freezing food.  The technique is a tad different but its the same concept.  The key is that the items freeze individually rather than sticking together.
• Any raw food can be easily flash froze - fruits, veggies, meats.
• The key is to use a cookie sheet and put the items in a single layer.  For example blueberries.  You wash and thoroughly dry the berries then you put on a cookie sheet making sure to cover the sheet but not cover up the berries.  Then you freeze and once they are solid you can put in a container or bag.  Now you have individual berries and not a lump of berries frozen together.
• When you store your items, try to store in ziplock bags with no air in the bags.  Then put the bags in a container so the food does not get smashed.  This will prevent freezer burn and smashage.