how's it going everyone so corn is a fantastic vegetable to grow at home as
it tastes so much better than any store-bought corn you can buy in any
supermarket or green grocer but unfortunately it doesn't last forever
and as soon as you pick it the sugars start to develop in the starch which
means that it loses its flavor but by using a little trick called blanching
plus putting it in the freezer this way you're guaranteed to enjoy your
very own sweet corn all throughout the year and if this is your first time here
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need to quickly pick some my corn cobs and I definitely know that these are
right because I've done a couple of little tests which I won't mention but
I've put in the YouTube card in that top right corner I'll leave the video in
there so you can go and watch that so you can do it yourself but really the
easiest way to pick corn is to just quickly grab your cob and pull it
downwards with a bit of a twist as well so just like this that way it comes off
nice and clean and doesn't damage the stem so I'll grab a few more ears of
corn and then we'll head over to our little outdoor kitchen and I'll show you
what blanching is and how to prepare it for freezing okay here we are at a
little outside kitchen here and for blanching what it really is is almost
like partly cooking it so really you put it you dunk and submerge it whatever
you're cooking it can be all sorts of vegetables you submerge it in a boiling
hot water for a short time for corn I do about one minute and then you submerge
it straight away into really cold water or ice water which almost like shock
shocks it and this way it prevents it from keeping on cooking and what the
whole blanching process does is actually preserve the sweetness in the corn the
taste and the texture as well if you just freeze it normally it won't come
out as well it won't come out as well compared to
when you blanch it and then freeze it so basically if you're blanching all you
need a pot of boiling water a bowl of ice
water and that is pretty much it so what I'm going to do is grab one of my
coolant so I'm just going to quickly shock this then all I'm going to do is
dunk this straightaway into the plug now
I'm just going to be waiting for about a minute and then I will take it out and
straightaway put it into the cold water
there you go guys it's showing you a bit of the difference that blanching does
make see guys I hope that helps you understand a bit more about blanching
and how you can freeze your corn to use later on in the year and keep it really
sweet and keep all of its flavors so I will pretty much leave the video there
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