Can i freeze Rhubarb??

[Tessiebear]

Freeze it raw or cooked or either (sorry amateur cook!)

yes I should think so

Think you would need to blanche to stop cell breakdown - when you freeze most fruit without cooking the cells expand damaging the actual structure of the fruit - its why you have to freeze dead peolpe with liquid nitrogen so its super quick and their cells can't expand - goes for why transplants have to use organs that have not been frozen too!!

How are you Fio??

Twinkle, you're a walking encyclopedia. Where do you get it all from????

Wow Twinkle - thats impressive!!! Are you a scientist?!?

twinkie that is such a depressing post!

i am fine tessiebear, a little hungover - thanks for asking how are you?

I am fine thanks - finished painting the kitchen .. am now moving onto the hall.... Has your mum gone back home - how are you finding things now?

Not a scientist just a closet geek with a great memory for things that I if no one else finds interesting!! - if you are playing trivial pursuit I can answer nearly every science and nature question in the 21st century edition - there goes my super cool image right down the white coat and glasses geeky passage!!

she's in france - but i don't think she would like it particularly

I cooked Rhubarb for DS and froze it and it was OK (or at least it was a couple of months ago and he is still very much with us!)

No you can't freeze me!

I always thought you should chop it and freeze it raw although I am not a scientist

Have cooked it and frozen it now - so fingers crossed

If you don't want to freeze things cooked then always best to blanche them. When I was a kid we had a huge vegetable garden and my mum would spend hours and hours, chopping and blanching veg and any fruit you eat cooked. She would freeze them on trays first, then take them out and put them into bags so that you could get however much you wanted out at a time. We never ever bought any veg.

I freeze it once stewed so when defrosted ready to stick in crumble or whatever. All based on the principle of mass cooking, pureeing and freezing for the bubs - didn't harm them so should be fine! Hasn't killed us yet! Currently working through our bumper apple harvest.

You can definately do both - my mum used to have us as teenagers chop it up by the sackload to be frozen later; I only have a small freezer and small amounts of rhubarb so tend to stew first and then freeze as takes up less space.