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Produce => Recipes => Topic started by: Tyke on November 29, 2008, 21:05:33

Title: preserving carrots
Post by: Tyke on November 29, 2008, 21:05:33
I have a big stack of carrots that i grew this year. I was thinking of freezing them. Do you need to blanch them or are there other ways of storage.
Title: Re: preserving carrots
Post by: Biscombe on November 29, 2008, 22:05:42
Will they keep in a sand box like beetroot and other root veg?
Title: Re: preserving carrots
Post by: Biscombe on November 29, 2008, 22:08:45
Copied this from the internet if it helps

In order to keep carrot for 4–7 months without significant losses it is kept at a temperature of about 0°. The temperature is allowed to go down to 0.5° below the freezing point for short periods of time (two or three weeks) and rise to 1° above the freezing point. It is also very important for the carrot that a favourable relative humidity of the air is maintained, from 90 to 95%. In these conditions there are no practically significant differences in keeping quality between varieties.