Freezing Bananas

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Question about freezing very ripe bananas. How is the taste affected when using a very ripe banana that you have frozen?

Post by NancyCybele

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Can they mold in the freezer? I have several that have been there for months and they look like they are getting sugar blooms (which looks suspiciously like mold). I don't want to use them if they are bad.

Post By Shannon (Guest Post)

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How long is it safe to leave them there?

Post By nyxeroz (Guest Post)

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WARNING!!! Bananas are HIGH IN SUGAR when normally ripe, but when turning black, they are decomposing and can bring on SYSTEMIC YEAST INFECTION affecting the whole body. Yeast loves fermenting fruit sugars, fungi such as mushrooms, and old moldy foods/cheeses/veggies/meats. Avoid all these things to keep healthy. Don't be fooled or justify to yourself that it's o.k. to eat mold/mildew/rottenness even if others do, or if you were lucky and unbothered in the past, to your best recollection. It creeps upon a person and causes ALL SORTS OF DISEASES, AND IS VERY HARD
TO DIAGNOSE AND CURE.

Yes, cutting off the black part of bananas, mold on cheese can be o.k., cutting off the eyes on potatoes can sometimes be acceptable, but wilt, rot, mildew, fungi growth is God's warning that it's not to
be consumed. Toss it into the compost and let the
non-human organisms make better use of it, because it doen't bother them at all. Even most animals can detect and will ignore rotting foods, so all the more should we humans use our common sense and listen to medical/scientific research/advice. Hope this reminds someone and prevents illnesses. God bless you. : )

Post By Lynda (Guest Post)

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I peel bananas, cut them in half, wrap each half in plastic wrap, and then into the freezer. On a hot day, I eat it like a popsicle---very sweet and delicious! Maybe I need to stick a popsicle stick in each one before I freeze it...hmmm.

Post by katiebkool

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thanks for all your answers. I ended up freezing them with the skins on and took them out last night and left them out overnight. this morning they were squooshy and extremely easy to remove. Made a banana chocolate chip cake that came out perfect and everyone loved it.

Post By Michele (Guest Post)

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If I am in a hurry, I just put them unpeeled into a ziplock bag, and then let them sit on the counter to thaw for a few minutes when I am ready to use them. But if I have the time, I peel them, mash them and measure them into Ziplock snack size bags, press as much air out as possible, label them and freeze them. I put 1/2 cup into each bag because I regularly make banana bars and the recipe calls for 1/2 cup mashed bananas. That is about one banana. When I find over-ripe ones on sale, I buy several pounds, and instead of mashing them with a fork, I cut them up and put them all in my mixer bowl and turn it on medium speed until they are mashed.
Harlean from Arkansas

Post By Enter your name. (Guest Post)

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I just throw the whole bunch in the freezer, unseperated, unpeeled. when I want one I just break it off from the bunch and just set it on the stove (I have a gas stove) while I'm doing other things and soon it's ready to peel. If I'm in a hurry I microwave it for about 10 seconds and peel it. I usually use them frozen in smoothie or just to eat frozen on a hot day.

Post By Anna. (Guest Post)

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If you are only trying to hold the bananas a few extra days, you can just put them in the refrigerator. The skin will turn black but the inside will not ripen any further. I have never frozen bananas but I am certainly going to try it.

Post by bettyboop5382

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When they start looking a little yucky, cut them up in slices[without peel] and put them in zip lock bags. Great fror snacks, too.

Post By Judith E. (Guest Post)

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I just put the whole banana with peel in the freezer and my trusty OXO potato peeler has no problem getting the frozen peel off the banana.

Post By Heather (Guest Post)

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yes they should be fine. I do it all the time. I would suggeted putting them in a ziploc bag or some sort of bag. I have occasionally had some bananas leak or burst on me.
Happy baking!!!!

Post By raylene (Guest Post)

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I always freeze extra bananas. I let them ripen real good then peel them n wrap them in plastic wrap according to the amt needed for the receipe. Then I place them in a freezer bag. When I am ready to use them I remove them from the freezer the day befor n let them thaw in the refrigerator. I then use them in my muffin, bread or cake receipe.

Post by Tupelo Granmom

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I freeze bananas without the peel. I wrap them in plastic wrap and put in plastic bags. I slice them and they taste like banana ice cream. Really good. I also use them in smoothies.

Post By Enter your name. (Guest Post)

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I would definatley say peel them first, if you are mushing it up you can probably even pre mush them.

Post By Celeste (Guest Post)

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Hi, Michele,

I got mad at myself for buying too many bananas (or not eating enough) so now when they start to turn, I slice them onto an aluminum foil sheet and put the sheet into the freezer for a couple of hours. Then they go into sandwich bags and back into the freezer until needed. One banana is enough for a bowl of cereal or yogurt. I've found that the taste is definitely 'ripe' but not overripe, even if the bananas were technically overripe when I froze them.

Post By Nancy from Nokomis (Guest Post)

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I throw my bananas in the freezer peel and all. Before I use them, I just microwave defrost them for a bit if I want them to be partially frozen for smoothies and micro a BIT LONGER if they need to be thawed. I then (as others mentioned) cut one end off and push the banana out whole. It is kinda funny how it just "falls out" of the peel in tact. :) Trying to peel them frozen is a nightmare! Don't even try it! Good luck!

Post by Andjerm

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Peel them before freezing or live to regret it.

Post by cookwie

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I freeze them and put them in my smoothies, with frozen strawberries. I find it easier to peel and wrap in plastic than to carve off the peel. But if you don't need them to be frozen, keep them in their peels like the others said...natural preserver, I like that!

Post by Starchild in VT

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You sure can freeze bananas. I do it all the time. Toss them in the freezer with the peel on, and defrost them when needed, What I do when thawed is , I snip the end of the banana , and squeeze the banana out into a bowl. It is perfect for banana bread, One of our local grocery stores here in Canada , Sell their very ripe bananas .You can buy 10 bananas for 9 cents . So I get a bunch and freeze them. I try to be thrifty . Nancy

Post by skiggyNT

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I freeze bananas often and use them when I make banana bread. I just take them out of the freezer early enough so they are not frozen when I use them. I peel them and but them in z-lock type bags when i freeze them.

Post by Daved

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