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How to Freeze Bananas

Learn how to freeze bananas with this easy and useful guide. Freeze your ripe bananas to prevent food waste, or to have frozen bananas at hand ready to use in your favorite recipes!
Active Time5 minutes
Total Time5 minutes
Yield: 1 frozen banana
Author: Tonje
Cost: cheap

Materials

  • 1 banana

Instructions

  • Peel the bananas. Freeze them with the peels off, as peeling a frozen banana is exactly as hard as it sounds.
  • Slice the bananas. As using a whole frozen banana can be tricky (imagine how much your blender would struggle!), I like to slice them in smaller chunks. I always cut my bananas in exactly 4 pieces. This way I know for sure that if I grab any 4 pieces of banana from my freezer, it amounts to 1 whole banana. Super easy to follow recipes!
  • Freeze the bananas. Add the banana pieces to a freezer safe zip loc bag or storage container and place them in the freezer. I find that by slicing each banana in 4 pieces, each chunk is large enough to freeze separately, and you won’t struggle to break them apart from each other when you need to grab some to use.

Notes

Can I freeze brown bananas? – As long as the bananas have not gone off and are safe to eat, you can freeze them. Don’t freeze bananas if they have started to form mold or other symptoms of being ready to be thrown in the garbage.
What does a thawed banana look like? – Okay, let’s be real. There’s no way you can grab a banana from the freezer, let it thaw, then eat it like a regular banana. Thawed bananas tend to be very soft, and can even turn into mashed bananas. Frozen bananas can be used in many different ways, but if you thaw them, they are only good to used in things like baked goods where you would use mashed bananas anyway.
Can I re-freeze a banana after thawing it? – No. Doing this could potentially create harmful bacteria in the bananas and give you food poisoning.