How to properly freeze corn?
By rebelmel
@rebelmel (1386)
United States
June 10, 2009 12:36pm CST
Corn was recently on sale - 10 husks for 2 dollars, or something like that. I only live with my boyfriend, but I opted to buy all of them and freeze them. I husked them, washed them, put them in ziplock bags, and froze them. I noticed when I take them out to defrost, they are really mushy. Does this mean they have gone bad? I have asked around and gotten a lot of different answers.
Someone told me I should have cooked them, then froze them. My boyfriend thinks that we should be cooking them frozen.
Who knows the answer!?
Is muchy corn bad corn?
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
10 Jun 09
They won't be bad but freezing them has broken down the cell structure inside. You are probably best to cook them and make a sort of corn mash out of them.
I believe that corn can be frozen (in fact one can buy frozen corn kernels) but it would probably be best to blanch it, take the kernels off the cob and freeze them loose.
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
16 Jun 09
Millions of Africans do, LOL (but most corn is eaten dried, I believe, then ground as a flour and used in various dishes.
Here is what you should do next time there are some cheap cobs for sale (do make sure that the reason they are cheap is NOT because they have 'gone over' or become too tough!)
http://www.pickyourown.org/freezingcorn.htm
Here is what you might do with the (perfectly edible) cobs you have:
http://whatscookingamerica.net/Soup/FreshCornSoup.htm
Once you have made the soup, you could freeze it. Corn goes well with chicken, turkey, white (navy) beans, green stuff like peas (especially snap or sugar peas), mushrooms and all sorts: just use your imagination and taste buds!
