This time of the year you'll be happy you did.<G>

How is the taste and texture of the frozen fresh figs?

Taste is fantastic,internal texture is jammy while the skin still has some crunch going into the neck.
I saved 3 gallons of the Preto and Strawberry Verte during the height of the season when the dehydrator was overbooked and I was overrun by them.Should have froze them all.

::wiping drool off my face::

Thanks for the heads up. Me and the wife were talking about how to have figs and strawberries at the sametime. Strawberries in Louisiana ate extra special. Ponchatoula strawberries are the best. we want to make strawberry fig jam. Your frozen fig look awesome.

Paul, what a great spread!! Yes, freezing them is a good idea. I hunted figs down in October and found them in a tiny shop so I bought about 7 baskets ate at least one basket full on my way home then froze the others. I eat them every so often...like right now when im salivating!

Your figs look so delicious, Paul, I can only imagine at this point! :) Thanks for the good tip as to how to preserve future harvests.

Look Great Paul How did you freeze Them ?? Whole etc

    Frozen figs in Russia.

I'm going to have to try this, great idea.

That is an awesome tip, thanks for sharing!

@Joe,they're frozen whole,no special handling just washed.
As levar mentioned the best candidate for this treatment is a thick skinned fig,
the texture will be much better and they'll hold form.

These were beyond dead ripe when frozen and had already began to sag,otherwise they'd look more like Vlad's.

Breakfast,round 2.
 
 
 
It's probably a good idea to take these out of the freezer a couple at a time instead of the whole gallon at once.<G>

Cheers

Ughhh they look so nice.

Is that cheese?

Trader Joe's,

http://davescupboard.blogspot.com/2011/07/le-delice-de-bourgogne-cheese-from.html

Awesome spread Paul, that cheese looks delish too. Those Preto's look just as jammy as they look when fresh. Thanks for confirmation that figs freeze well, even though i doubt i will be in excess this year, maybe next year :)

Now i'm hungry for figs and cheese.

WOW!  Great stuff.  Those little Preto cuttings are doing well for me and already have put on 2 main-crop figs each under my grow lamp... so thanks again Paul.  Your strain is a very good grower!  I have a vacuum Food Saver that I use for game and fish (see my avatar hehe)  Perhaps I should enlist it to preserve some figs?  It might squish them too much though.   Regarding your method: Are you just placing the ripe figs in a freezer bag and just tossing it in the freezer?  They sure look good.

I have frozen figs with great success too. just let them defrost to room temp. not even close to dried figs for flavor. I will take frozen over dried any day. it still retains that fresh figgy taste unlike dried. they do get a little loose or soft, wouldn't say mushy. I have had mine in the freezer for 4 months, they are starting to lose a bit of flavor now. I double bag them and add a napkin. I take 1 out every few weeks and enjoy.

I think this method would be a good way to ship and market figs. why aren't there frozen figs at the big box stores. they can pick them at peak ripeness and freeze them.