Guest guest Posted March 16, 2001 Report Share Posted March 16, 2001 OK, here's what happened... As you may know by now, my wife and I love Brussel Sprouts. We got this great little vacuum packaging machine (which works extremely well) recently, and thought that I could clean a bunch of brussel sprouts and vacuum pack them, and keep them for a while. Which I did - I bought about 5 pounds of them, and packed about half of them away in two packages, and refrigerated them. Well, yesterday I went to use one and what a suprise - this package which WAS very tightly vacuum packed was now blown up like a pillow. It was not leaking - I want to emphasise that. They looked OK, so I opened the package...quite an odor of brussel sprouts (what else?) was released. I looked them over carefully and they seemed to look and smell OK, so I cooked them. They cooked OK, and although they were edible, they weren't quite right. I couldn't describe it, my wife called them " bitter " . Today I cooked the other package. PHEW!! The smell was absolutely awful, and it stunk up the whole house for hours. I cooked them anyway, and these were similar to the ones from yesterday, only worse. We could only stand to eat about half of them, and threw the rest out. I can only assume that they generated some sort of gas on their own, possibly due to the action of enzymes, but it was enough to overcome the vacuum it was packed under and generate its own pressure. Now, can someone tell me what I did wrong? A couple of people my wife has talked to since have suggested that they should be blanched, and frozen instead of refrigerated. Huggy Bear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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