Berry Storage
"From Alton Brown's Good Eats. Works on any berry you like. Works on sliced stone fruits, too."
- Ready In:
- 5hrs
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Yields:
-
5 lb
ingredients
- 5 lbs strawberries
- 5 lbs dry ice
directions
- Wash berries, leaving hulls intact. Dry with paper towels. Refrigerate in the coldest part of your refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
- Smash dry ice into "snow" with a hammer or kitchen mallet. Be sure to wear insulated gloves while working with dry ice, as it is approximately -100°F Dump snow into a large metal pot. Stir cold berries into snow, maximizing contact. Place pot into a cooler or ice chest. Close but DO NOT LOCK the lid (the dry ice expands about 100x while warming up; if you make an airtight seal, your cooler might explode). Let stand 30-60 minutes until berries are rock hard.
- Label heavy duty freezer bags with the item name and date. Lower the bags into the cooler to fill; this will keep the bags full of carbon dioxide instead of oxygen, which will minimize freezer burn. (Alternatively, transfer frozen berries to vacuum sealer bags and seal.) Store in freezer up to one year.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
DrGaellon
New Rochelle, 0
I'm a 48 y/o gay Jewish man in the suburbs immediately north of New York City. I'm a general internist, practicing and teaching at a medical college north of NYC. I also earned a Masters in Public Health degree in 2013.
After a Walt Disney World trip in Dec 2006 where I had to rent an electric scooter because I couldn't manage the walking, I decided to have gastric bypass surgery, which was done Feb 28, 2007. I lost 160 lbs (though I've gained back about 60 of that since). I can't eat as much as I used to, so I want every bite to be extra good!
