Is Blanching Really Necessary?
This simple cooking technique helps preserve the vibrant color and crisp texture of veggies. Dan Souza breaks down why blanching matters.
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is the mouth imbalance becoming a signature? i feel like its more pronounced the more i watch him.
Well that wasted 2min 21sec with cook book advertised at the end. Did the water mellon taste the same? can you do that with other things? was it really worth it? This is a thumbs down vid! sorry
If I blanch myself will I too go from drab to dreamy?
Dan is the best, but the outro was longer than the video
so what I'm getting is that a vacuum chamber is an effective replacement for blanching
Does Dan have trigeminal neuralgia?
I just saw this video and blanching seemed to be a failure on last years runner beans that were then put into freezer bags and frozen. Sadly this video neither asked or answered anything about the flavor.! I care a whole lot less about what my food looks like than what it tastes like, I know of no-one who has the opposite view.! It was suggested to me that blanching the runner beans, letting them cool, bagging and freezing them would give a better outcome than simply freezing them, there seemed to be no real difference, if anything the blanched ones had lost a little flavor compared to those that were simply frozen, although this is not so easy to be sure about as they came off a variety of plants in various quantities and were picked and frozen at different times. Is this a pointless endeavor, it seems to be, or did I not do something right.?
How's the watermelon taste?
Dan did you have a stroke
Yes, but I need to know what the texture of the vacuumed watermelon is now. You should've tried that too! 👀
This video I was hoping would answer the question – do we need to blanch fresh vegetables before freezing? Why or why not?
Dreamy peas!
Not much to be learned in this one
Just a big ol' promo for ATK
"Drab to dreamy", a missed opportunity for "Drab to fab" 😂
I would sign up if I didn't have to pay for it ……
This could’ve easily been just a YT Short.
But I’ll always watch because of our boi Dan
Chlorophyll? More like borophyll
I would have been interested to see how the vacuum affects the vegetables as well.
more than half of the video is ads 😆
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Q: is blanching necessary?
A: Yes, if you want to soften and/or make the colour of vegetables more vibrant
Dan is the man. W Dan, WAN!
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