On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:55:30 +1200, bob >
wrote:

>On 2 Aug 2007 03:28:56 GMT, Blinky the Shark >
>magnanimously proffered:
>
>>In here a while back, I picked up the idea of saving ginger in wine.
>
>Why not just freeze it? That way you can buy (or harvest) early season
>ginger (when it's at its juiciest) and use as required.

Why do anything to it at all aside from keeping it in the
refrigerator? Fresh ginger keeps for months - only two bad things can
happen to it - either it dries out and shrivels up to a little ginger
crisp, or it rots/goes mouldy. In the absence of either it's still
perfectly usable.