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Add the celery to the boiling water, cook for 2-3 minutes then transfer it to the ice bath. Let it cool for a minute or two, then dry it off and place the celery on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Fluidized bed freezing is a variant of air-blast freezing where pelletized food is blown by fast-moving cold air from below, forming a fluidized bed. The small size of the food combined with the fast-flowing air provides good heat transfer and therefore quicker freezing. Contact freezing uses physical contact other than air to transfer the heat.
Freeze drying, also known as lyophilization or cryodesiccation, is a low temperature dehydration process [16] that involves freezing the product and lowering pressure, thereby removing the ice by sublimation. [17] This is in contrast to dehydration by most conventional methods that evaporate water using heat. [18]
One of the main advantages of this method of preparing frozen food is that the freezing process takes only a few minutes. The exact time depends on the type of IQF freezer and the product. The short freezing prevents formation of large ice crystals in the product's cells, which destroys the membrane structures at the molecular level.
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Frozen vegetables are vegetables that have had their temperature reduced and maintained to below their freezing point for the purpose of storage and transportation (often for far longer than their natural shelf life would permit) until they are ready to be eaten. They may be commercially packaged or frozen at home.
During slow freezing, cells are placed in a medium which is cooled below the freezing point using liquid nitrogen. This causes an ice mass to form in the medium. As the water in the medium freezes, the concentration of the sugars, salts, and cryoprotectant increase.
Freezing is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] For most substances, the melting and freezing points are the same temperature; however, certain substances possess differing solid-liquid transition temperatures.