How to Flash Freeze Peaches: A Quick and Simple Way to Preserve Peaches | Homesteading Skills

October 18, 2025

Flash freeze peaches with this step-by-step guide. Whether you grow your own peaches or buy them in bulk, you can preserve peaches to keep a prepared freezer this harvest season. Flash freezing is a quick and simple preservation method and we are walking you through in this post.

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Hi, I’m Priscilla!

As a young, growing family facing job loss in 2013, with a toddler and a newborn baby, I wanted to learn how to grow food to supplement our rising grocery bill, but I had no experience. So, I called on my mom to help me start my first garden as cheap as possible. I remember her stewarding a small garden from time to time when I was growing up. We started one with blocks, soil, seeds, and a few starters that she helped me invest in. And that’s how I started!

Before I was a homesteading, homeschooling mom I was a professional musician and music teacher. I carried over my teaching experience into homeschooling my children, but I learned it was much different teaching your own children. And, when I started homesteading, I started with NO experience. It was something I never imagined doing. I had to do a lot of researching and learning each season. So, I know how hard it is to start homeschooling and homesteading with no experience!

After 2020

After the events of 2020, we saw the vital need to learn to grow and raise real God-given food in abundance, and continue homeschooling all of our children. We felt God had a new call and season for us. So in 2021, we left everything behind, and moved from northwest Indiana to southern Georgia. And we just got started!

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Now, I’ve homeschooled for 11 years and have 6 children of homeschool age with 1 more in waiting. And, we established our homestead in 2021 with lots of research and no experience. Within two years, we built up gardens and livestock and had a small farmstead business. We stewarded a small farmstead by selling fresh eggs and healthy chickens to many happy customers! We started taking and completing several homesteading courses, and we continue our education every year. And, I’m always looking for ways to make things more time efficient by making them simpler to do and sustainable. When things are simpler, they are more sustainable in our already full lives.

Therefore, we want to help others do the same, no matter what their skill set is and no matter where they live. Building up all things home will allow us to sustain our families no matter what the future holds!

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Introduction

Whether you grow your own peaches or buy them in bulk, you can preserve them to keep a prepared pantry and freezer this harvest season. In a previous post, we talked about 8 No-Waste Ways to Preserve Peaches with “how to’s”. But today, we are talking about how to flash freeze peaches to preserve peaches. It is a quick and simple preservation method that can make peaches last up to 3 months in the freezer. For freezing up to 6 months, blanching before freezing is necessary. Read about that in our post we shared above.

Since we are currently renting, we do not have any mature fruit trees. It was peach harvest season here in Georgia and peaches were being sold by the box (1/2 bushel) and we bought 3 (1 1/2 bushels). For our large family, we knew that would help save money and offset our grocery bill in the fruit department if we could preserve them and have peaches at least through part of winter. And, this was our first time preserving peaches, so come learn along with us!

glass bowl full of sliced and prepared peaches on a granite countertop

Why Flash Freeze Peaches?

I am a fan of freezing food as a method of preservation. Freezing food is simple and quick and offers some shorter term options and some longer term options. We do not like to solely rely on freezers since power can go out. In our area, we have lived through hurricanes the last few years that have caused damage and outages. However, we have a generator and have not (thankfully) had to deal with our freezers defrosting. Also, with a productive and full life, freezing has proved to be one of the quickest ways I can preserve food. Now, we also have plenty of freezer space for our current needs. We have two deep freezers and two refrigerators with freezers. You may need to consider your freezer space when choosing this method of preservation.

Peaches can be frozen a couple different ways, but today we are just chatting about how to flash freeze peaches. This is basically just washing and prepping your peaches, freezing them on something like a cookie sheet for a few hours, then transferring them to a freezer-safe container or freezer bag. However, there are a few different ways to do this.

You can leave peels on or off, slice or dice, add lemon juice to prevent browning or not, and you can freeze them as is after flash freezing or add a simple syrup to your freezer container or bag with the peaches. A simple syrup will make the peaches sweeter, and you can determine how heavy/sugary to make that syrup. Here is the step-by-step way to flash freeze peaches as one of our favorite ways to preserve peaches.

How to Flash Freeze Peaches:

1. Wash all peaches well or use a non-toxic produce wash/soak.

2. If you want to remove peels, do so here. (But, don’t throw away the peels! Read this post to see how we keep this process no-waste!)

a glass bowl of peach pieces next to another glass bowl of peach peels and skins on top of a granite counter top with hands of peaches behind

3. Next, slice peaches or dice them into cubes.

a lady, man, and a teen boy working as a team to slice peaches with peach slices in a bowl, and peels in a different bowl, and lemon juice all on a granite counter top island

4. To prevent browning, put the peaches into a bowl and add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice for small batches, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice for large batches, and mix well to ensure all peaches have been covered. Adjust the amount of lemon juice needed to make sure all pieces were covered, but not necessarily soaked. (This step can be skipped. It is not necessary. Just like apples starting to brown that are still good, peaches also brown from the air and are still good to eat. So, this is your preference.)

a stainless steel bowl full of peach slices and lemon juice with a wooden spoon in it and a man's hands in the background slicing peaches

5. Put peach pieces in a single layer on a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet, and place it in a freezer for about 4 hours.

6. If you are going to freeze your peaches in a simple syrup, make that syrup now while the peaches are flash freezing. Make sure the syrup is completely cooled before adding them to the frozen peaches. Learn how to make a simple syrup down below.

7. Once the peach pieces are frozen through, you can add them directly to a freezer bag or freezer-safe container. If you chose to make a simple syrup, you can add the peaches to a freezer bag or freezer-safe container, and then top them with your completely cooled off simply syrup being sure to leave space in whichever container you chose to use.

8. Mark the date on your container and store in the freezer for up to 3 months.

How to make a light simple syrup for freezing peaches (the simplest):

A simple syrup can be super-light to heavy. First, you need to determine how sweet you desire your syrup to be. A common method for simple syrup is a 50/50 mixture of sugar and water, or a 1:1 ratio. But, this is considered to be a heavy syrup. This is more sugar than I wanted for our family, so I made a light syrup. Find a simple chart for sugar to water ratios for simple syrups here. Here is how to make a light simple syrup. If you want a different ratio, just use the chart to adjust the amount of sugar to water.

1. Combine 2 1/2 cups of sugar and 5 1/2 cups of water in a medium saucepan.

2. Use medium heat to bring this combination to a boil, and make sure to stir the mixture frequently to help the sugar dissolve.

3. Once it is boiling, reduce the heat and simmer the mixture for a minute or so.

4. Remove the saucepan from the heat and leave it uncovered to cool down for use in freezing.

Conclusion

And, that’s it! Flash freezing peaches is quick and simple. We hope you found this blog post informative and inspiring! If so, please share on Pinterest and other social media platforms. Let us know in the comments if you’ve tried flash freezing peaches. And, don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter below for access to our entire free printable library, as well as simple resources and encouragement sent straight to your inbox.

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