Rhino wrote:
> I recently started buying ready-to-eat baby carrots to eat as a healthy
> snack. You're supposed to keep them in the refrigerator section of your
> fridge but I have some kind of a mental block and always "instinctively" put
> the darned things in the freezer section instead of the fridge section. I've
> done this three times now, most recently last night.
>
> I tried letting the first package frozen carrots thaw out on the counter but
> they turned dark and didn't look right. I tried letting the second package
> of frozen carrots thaw out in the fridge section but the same thing
> happened. My mother told me that if they turned dark they weren't safe to
> eat so I threw both of those packages in the garbage.
>
> Now I've done it a third time. Is there anything I can do to "rescue" the
> frozen carrots? I was wondering if defrosting them in the microwave might do
> the trick: get them back to a temperature where they can be stored in the
> fridge section again WITHOUT having turning them black and inedible? I
> really hate to throw out yet another package of these carrots.
>
> If there is a technique that will work - microwave-based or not - I'd love
> to hear about it. I'm bound to do this again a few times until my brain
> comes off autopilot and stop putting the carrots in the freezer section of
> the fridge....
>

You're never going to get the original texture back. Freezing produces
ice crystals that puncture cell walls and allow leakage of fluids.
That's why your carrots turn black and floppy. Think frostbite.

They're probably not poisonous, merely disgusting. The easiest remedy
is to pay attention to what you're doing.

Kathleen