? about Bing Cherries

T. Lynn

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Ok, I love bing cherries so I purchased 3 bags at the store. I was told that I could freeze them so I did. Now I unthawed a bag and they're so soggy. I almost don't want to eat them but I'd hate to waste them.

If I keep them in the fridge, will they get hard again or remain soggy (almost like eating soggy cereal)? I'm so ticked...
 
Not sure. I also love them and bought like 5 pounds of them this week because they were on sale. I think most of them are gone already :teeth: .

I would be interested in knowing the answer because I never knew you could freeze them.
 
<SCIENCE ALERT>

Fruit, like all food, is made up of individual "cells" held together into the fruit itself. The cell walls help the fruit keep its shape and texture. Fruit contains a lot of water. When you freeze the fruit, the water freezes, creating ice crystals. Ice crystals are sharp, and rip the cell walls of the fruit. That leaves the fruit without structure, hence, the fruit becomes mushy. Once the damage is done, there is no putting the fruit back together again.

The way to avoid this, when freezing fruit, is to freeze the fruit so fast that the crystals that form are smaller. Smaller crystals mean less cellular damage. Conventional freezing techniques cannot freeze fruit fast enough to minimize the damage. Commercial applications would use a blast freezer, set at 40 degrees below zero. At home, your best bet would be to buy some dry ice. Even using dry ice, it is essential that you store the fruit in the coldest part of your refrigerator (but NOT where they'd freeze!) for a good amount of time before you put them into the dry ice. To get the smallest crystals, you need to temperature conversion to go as fast as possible, and so you want the starting temperature of the unfrozen fruit to be as low as possible.

(Alton Brown did a whole episode on this. You might want to keep an eye on Food TV reruns for it.)
 
Oh I remember that episode now. I love his show! Hmmmm dry ice, well I really shouldnt worry too much I guess, I normally eat them too fast to get a chance to freeze them.
 

sounds like the makings for a cherry pie or cherry jam! :cool1:
 
I normally eat them so fast as well, but we are going to Knoebels in August and I wanted to take some cherries so it was suggested to freeze them. I had 2 bags so I did and I got one down today and now their soggy. Oh well, DD will still eat them at least.

Thanks for the replies.
 
You could always dip them in chocolate to harden them up. :thumbsup2
 
Ok, just got back from the store and purchased some more bags.

How long do they normally keep in the fridge or being let out? In the store they were just sitting out.
 
I take mine out of the bags they come in and put them in a strainer like thing and wash them and let them dry and make sure I get any that are soft out and tossed aside. I will let them dry all day in that....then I store them so they arent packed tight in a bowl in the fridge. They last quite awhile for me that way...a few weeks.
 
Thanks for the reponses. I crave bing cherries and could eat them all year long!!!
 


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