How we freeze our sweetcorn

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We grow enough sweetcorn to allow us to freeze quite a bit. Here is how we freeze and cook it.
Cooling the cobs in ice water gives better end result and stops the freezer compressor getting overloaded if freezing down lots of sweetcorn.

Needed:

• bag of ice cubes
• sweetcorn/asparagus steamer. (tall pan with a basket - ours will take four cobs)
• lots of tea cloths

Method:

1. put freezer on fast freeze
2. fill a big mixing bowl with water and add ice cubes
3. bring 1 cm of water to boil in steamer
4. put four cobs in the steamer basket in the steamer
5. steam for 3 minutes
6. transfer cobs to ice water
7. allow to cool for 5 minutes
8. take out and dry with a tea cloth
9. wrap each cob in cling film
10. freeze flat and bag up
11. Go to 3 above (check water level)

to cook

1. steam from frozen for 8-9 minutes

or to barbecue allow to thaw out before cooking.