September 7, 2007
Freezing corn
It was a tasty year for sweet corn, and we decided to extend the season a bit longer by freezing some corn. Angelika bought 26 ears yesterday, and we got a little under five pounds out of that. I also got to enjoy some tasty corn by going over the stripped cobs again, and then the chickens and composter got to enjoy what was left. We used these instructions, which we found by the classic method of visiting Google and entering "freezing corn".
Angelika and soon-to-be-frozen corn.
It's pretty simple - blanch the corn, cool it off, and then strip off the kernels. Angelika used a "Kernel Kutter" instead of a knife, using a nail through a board to hold the cob vertical. Then it went into the freezer.
Freeing the kernels from the cob.
The corn cost $9.00, so we wound up paying under $2.00 a pound. Of course, there was also an hour of (fun) labor, and there's the energy for boiling water and freezing the corn, if we want to do a full calculation.
I've posted a tiny photo gallery showing a little more of how this worked.
Posted by simon at September 7, 2007 12:31 PM in eating locallyNote on photos