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 ?
I’ve frozen peeled garlic before and then grated it into sauces. It’s fine but if you want to use your excess garlic for something delicious you can make confit really easily which should extend the shelf life quite a bit.
Is garlic conflit so easy to make ? I know how to cook onion conflit but I won't call that "really easy".
Just oil and time. Not difficult but possible to over / under cook. You can of course make it fancier with spices and such, but a basic version is pretty low level cooking skill required.
Reference recipient: https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/garlic-confit-2
I'm honestly not sure about freezing it but i know you can ferment it.
We've been freezing garlic lately but I feel like it loses quite a bit of pungency. We mince using a food processor. I end up using maybe twice as much as I normally would... it's a great time saver if you're okay with weaker tasting garlic and compensating accordingly.
Not for a long time.
Simplest imo is to chop/mince/puree it and put into ice-cube trays for easy to dispense flavour.
I don't think it's necessary to freeze it, but idk for sure if you'll see a meaningful change in flavor or texture after freezing.
Usually you can store garlic long-term in a cool, dark place like with other root vegetables, but you need to dry it out first.
Here's a link to a page on curing and storing garlic you've grown at home.
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.