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Freezing spring onions
"DavidW" > wrote in message
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> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:45:25 -0500, Gary > wrote:
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>>> Janet B wrote:
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>>>> Freeze dried isn't the same at all.
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>>> Bottom line though, those green onions (preserved in any way) will
>>> never be as good as fresh.
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>> For the OP's use they'd be as good as fresh, when rehydrated and mixed
>> into hot mashed potatoes it'd difficult if not impossible to tell
>> freeze dried from fresh. Do you know that better than 90% of the US
>> strawberry crop is freeze dried... when rehydrated and used in most
>> any recipe it's nigh impossible to tell from fresh. I've used freeze
>> dried green onions in Chinese cookery for many years, it's just as
>> good if not better than fresh, because they're processed within an
>> hour or two of harvesting, green onions at the produce stand are days
>> out of the ground, maybe more than a week... no way are they fresh...
>> unless you grow your own freeze dried are the next best thing. Freeze
>> dried is not the same as dehydrated, but even dehys are darn good,
>> I've used these:
>> http://shop.honeyville.com/dehydrated-green-onions.html
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> It's worth exploring, though I'd never heard of them before. Maybe I don't
> shop at the right places or look on the right shelves, or maybe we just
> don't have them in Australia.
I got mine online.
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