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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 21:53:12 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:25:25 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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"redclay" wrote in message

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Ros Butt wrote in message
news Once again, it's coming to the season of busily freezing
excess
runners.
I've always blanched them, but I've read recently that there
is
no
need to
blanch. Has anyone any experience of blanched versus
unblanched?
I'm not
even sure of the reason for blanching.

Any help would be great.
Blanch them because the heat stops all biological processes.

Only complete cooking stops all biological activity. (Almost
all)

a good dose of gamma rays does too

True, but not many urglers have access to a Cobalt bomb.

Only a cobalt 60 source is needed, I am sure many urglers have one
in
their garden shed :-)

The food industry has access to chambers that use gamma rays to stop
all biological processes in food.
http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/safe...e/irradfoodqa/

Oh, dear. It's not organic.

Franz
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Martin

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:06:05 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


Only complete cooking stops all biological activity. (Almost
all)

a good dose of gamma rays does too

True, but not many urglers have access to a Cobalt bomb.

Only a cobalt 60 source is needed, I am sure many urglers have one
in
their garden shed :-)

The food industry has access to chambers that use gamma rays to stop
all biological processes in food.
http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/safe...e/irradfoodqa/

Oh, dear. It's not organic.

Worse still it kills bacteria, but doesn't get rid of toxins caused by
the bacteria. It's the reason that prawns imported from the Far East
sometimes make people ill.
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Martin

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Stephen Howard) wrote:

I freeze mine straight off the plant

At what stage do you slice them?

Thanks!

I personally don't slice them. I like my veggies chunky. I simply freeze
them and steam them for cooking.

"Steve Harris" wrote in message
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In article ,
(Stephen Howard) wrote:

I freeze mine straight off the plant

At what stage do you slice them?

Thanks!

I personally don't slice them. I like my veggies chunky. I simply freeze
them and steam them for cooking.