Round one of two down on preserving carrots. An hour of washing. An hour and a half of peeling and slicing. I managed to turn my canner into a giant steamer with the rack and a colander, to fully cook the carrots without boiling away all of the nutrients. Then into a clean sink of very cold water, into the salad spinner, and into vac bags. Kind of a pain in the ass, but oh well, so is starving if the supply chain gets bumped. Freezing isn’t my fav method but it’s so cold here most of the year I don’t have to worry about losing refrigeration.

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Tons of work. Nice job

Have you tried freeze drying these? I really want to get one of those units.

I haven’t done carrots but I’m sure it would work fine. Blanching veggies beforehand helps. My local Costco had one for a good price. If you’re into long term food prepping, a freeze dryer is awesome.

I know I have but I don't recall the results. Thin slices would probably make good chips though.

Nice haul.

My grandma used to store her carrots whole in a bucket of sand in the root cellar.

I have never tried it. My kids eat most of ours before they make it into the house.

Yeah that’s the big thing I’m lacking is cool storage like a cold room or root cellar. By February my seed potatoes have foot long shoots on them.