Chestnuts can be frozen either cooked or raw.

If you choose to freeze raw chestnuts, you can put them directly into a sealed plastic bag and keep them in the freezer. This way you can avoid the phenomenon of the chestnut shell being impermeable, which causes raw chestnuts to become tasteless after freezing. However, when consumed, raw chestnuts need to undergo certain processing before consumption, such as peeling, etc., and the water inside the chestnuts will gradually lose, the taste will deteriorate, dry and hard.

If you choose to cook the chestnuts for freezing, you can first cook the chestnuts with their shells and then freeze them. This way can be heated through high temperature to play a role in the initial sterilization, chestnuts with shells after cooking and freezing can be better retained its taste and nutrients are not lost. But when you eat, you need to thaw and peel the cooked chestnuts, which is relatively troublesome.

Overall, whether to choose raw or cooked chestnuts for frozen storage can be decided according to individual needs and eating habits. If you want to preserve chestnuts conveniently and quickly, you can choose to freeze raw chestnuts; if you want better taste and nutritional retention, you can choose to freeze them after cooking. Either way, be sure to clean and dry the chestnuts before freezing to avoid contamination and moisture.

At the same time, when thawing, we should also pay attention not to put the chestnut in a high-temperature environment to thaw quickly, so as not to destroy its taste and nutritional value. It is better to put them at room temperature to thaw naturally or use the slow thawing method.

Chestnut selection method:

1, look at the appearance: fresh chestnut appearance will have a layer of fine velvet, and the color is reddish-brown, if the appearance of the chestnut has no velvet, the color of the dark, it is very likely to be a long time to put the chestnut, smells like a stale taste. In addition, the chestnut is good to eat does not lie in the size of the head, on the contrary, smaller chestnuts may be sweeter and more delicious.

2, look at the worm's eye: chestnuts sweet or not is the second, if you buy chestnuts worm's eye, it can be a waste, look at the worm's eye is to look at the bottom of the eye, there are obvious small holes in the eye, and the second is to look at the chestnut skin has obvious black spots, so buy chestnuts don't listen to merchants to catch the big one, or have to carefully select.

3, shake: pick up the chestnut shake, if shaking up the sound, then this chestnut can not be, this chestnut has shrunk, put a long time, inside the chestnut may have been blackened, and pick up the fuller, press, shaking up the sound is a good fresh chestnut.