Can you freeze lemon juice? I am pretty sure inquiring minds want to know and since you ended up on this page, I am going to say ‘YES’! Freezing lemon juice is possible, it is easy to do and guess what? I am going to show you how to do it with a quick step-by-step below.
Why Freezing Lemon Juice is a Good Idea?
You will often find that people freeze lemon juice for a variety of reasons. Some people may have a whole bunch and despite making lemonade day in and day out, they may want to preserve the juice to be used at a future date. Some people might get lemons on sale and would love to store them for when they need them, instead of paying inflated prices later on. Whatever the reason, storing lemon juice in the freezer is practical and easy do. The good thing is that if stored properly, you can keep lemon juice in the freezer for a very long time, without having to worry about it degrading and being unusable. There are people who have lemon juice stored for 3 years and it is still as fresh and good as when it first went in.
Freezing lemon juice is not rocket science and to get everything prepped and ready, all you need are some fresh lemons, a lemon press, ice trays and freezer bags.
Steps
Get some fresh lemons and squeeze the juice out of them into a container.
Once you have the juice that you need, you can now pour the juice into ice trays.
Place the ice trays into the freezer and let them sit for a couple of hours.
Once the lime juice cubes are fully frozen, you can take them out of the ice trays and place them inside of a heavy duty freezer bag.
As mentioned above, you can store the lemon juice indefinitely in the freezer, once you have them packaged properly. You can take out a cube if you want to make lemonade, or if you have a recipe that requires juice from lemons. You will always have them accessible, especially if they are hard to get or not in season.
When you are ready to use your frozen lemon juice, the process to get everything thawed out is pretty simple. If you want to use an individual cube to make lemonade, all you need to do is take it out and place it in a glass of water. You can then add whatever sweetener you want to it, simple as 1-2-3.
If you want to defrost a whole bunch at one time, you can put them in a container and let them sit overnight inside the refrigerator. If you need the lemon juice right away, you can take the cubes and let them sit outside in a container at room temperature until they are fully defrosted. You could also throw them inside of the microwave and use the defrost option.
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