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- Freezing pineapples - a practical guide
- Careful preparation
- Step-by-step guide to freezing
- Smartly freeze in the ice cube container
- Thaw and enjoy
- Tips & Tricks
Freezing pineapples - a practical guide
Fresh pineapple can only be kept for a few days. If you would like to store your self-bred or low-priced pineapple fruits for a longer period of time, the freezer will become the focus. So you freeze the tropical fruits perfectly.
Careful preparation
So that the preservation in the freezer runs optimally, careful preparatory work creates the basis. The pineapple should be ripe, but not overripe. Since the fruit has a very soft consistency after thawing, it should not be spongy even before freezing. First, peel the pineapple as thin as possible, as the most delicious pulp is hidden under the brown peel.
Only in the second round are the brown kernels removed. Finally, cut the pineapple into slices and bite-sized pieces. Depending on your taste, then cut out the central axis with a cookie cutter. Although this middle part is edible and equally healthy, it tastes bitter and is comparatively hard.
Step-by-step guide to freezing
Following the preparatory work, you will start freezing without delay. For this you need a baking tray, baking paper and later on freezer bags or airtight containers. How to proceed:
Before putting the bags or containers back in the freezer, they are given the date. Frozen pineapple can be stored for a maximum of 6 months. Handle freezing according to this manual, do not stick the fruit pieces together. In this way they can be taken out and eaten individually.
Smartly freeze in the ice cube container
Not every freezer has the space capacity to deposit a baking tray overnight. Without going through the pre-frost, pineapple freezing is easily accomplished using an ice cube tray. The bite-sized pieces of fruit just spread over the small compartments and pour water. If the pineapples are deep-frozen overnight, several ice cube trays can be stacked for space-saving storage.
Thaw and enjoy
Most types of fruit are soft to soggy after thawing. Pineapple is unfortunately no exception in this regard. For an invigorating smoothie, the fruit is excellent. Clever connoisseurs eat the fruit pieces in the half-frozen state, because they then like crisp and refreshing at the same time.
Tips & Tricks
The elaborate and somewhat delicate peeling and cutting of pineapples brought clever inventors to the forefront of the search for an uncomplicated solution. The ingenious pineapple cutter was the result. After the stem has been removed with a knife, the device is put on and turned into the fruit. The result is ready-cut pineapple slices without peel, kernels and the hard, bitter central axis.
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