Do you freeze fresh garlic ?
Do you freeze fresh garlic ?
I have more head of garlic that I could consume. I wish to freeze some. Can I keep it this way ? Will it change or become somehow damage ?
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Fresh garlic meaning recently harvested summer (green) garlic? Or fresh garlic meaning heads you just bought at the grocery store? I have never frozen garlic in my entire life. I refrigerate green garlic when I get some at the farmers market (a.k.a. wet market for all you sinophobes). But store bought heads just go in the cupboard.
Alright, you got my curiosity. How are Chinese and farmers markets related? What trend did I miss? I go to the farmer market weekly and live in SW PA and know of no negativity around buying from there.
Farmers markets are wet markets. Same thing, different word. US media during the "China virus" news cycles constantly reinforced this idea that the Chinese are unhealthy and barbaric because they buy foods from wet markets where live bats are slaughtered and viruses can get transmitted. There was a whole trend of white people in the US talking about wet markets being gross meanwhile, a wet market is literally what you go to every week in SW PA.
Ahhh I see. I misinterpreted your comment. I thought farmers market was the slur and wet markets was what people were calling them now. Never heard of that before. But I also ignored at lot of the stupid shit people were saying over covid got rid of Facebook before it happened and really only get my news from a couple specific sources that I trust. I knew people were being extra racist towards Asians but I hadn’t heard any specifics.
Good to learn something new
It's not green and doesn't have leaf. It's purple and has been harvest probably two or three weeks ago max.
Is the skin papery or more like a fresh vegetable?
Some heads start to have paper skin but most have not.
Never froze it. Fridge is good for up to 6 weeks I think
Do you mean it can't be frozen at this stage? If I triple my garlic consumption, I won't finish it by this time. I will usually have a half or a quarter clove for a dish and, at most, one garlicy meal per week.
I'm sure you could, but you can also just hang it and let it dry