FREEZE! Who Cares About Season?

Many durian fanatics crave for durians in between the season.  How often do you wish you could sink your teeth into it any day of the year?

The trick is to freeze durian and you can still eat it a couple of months later.  You may lost anything between 10-20% if you do it right, or ruin it if you don't.  How do you go about doing it?
1.  Get durian when it peaks, so it's cheap and good.  Make sure it's at its best and your favorite.

2.  Avoid freezing the wet types of durian (eg XO) as there will be too much water content.  I prefer the drier types such as Mao San Wang, D24, etc.

3.  Lay the durians neatly into the air tight container.  Try not to stack, or only 2 layers.

4.  Apply a layer of shrink wrap at the top of container before closing the lid.  

5.  Wrap the container with a few pieces of newspapers.  This can help keep the temperature constant despite the regular opening/closing of freezer door, thereby reducing ice crystals.

Hint Hint : Bring along your container to the shop so the durian guy can pack it into the container for you.  This way, you save the trouble of doing it yourself, or the mess from transferring it from styroform box.

Before consumption, unwrap the newspaper and let it thaw for about 1-2 hours, depending on how long it takes to soften.  

What happen if the durians are kept for a tad too long and the taste doesn't please you much?  Pulp it, use it to make ice cream.  Ice Cream recipe is provided in this blog.

Errr boss boss, you sell frozen durians?  But if YOU do, please give me special price ok (that's e comm for writing this for you guys to read"