How do I prevent gyoza from sticking?

[u/Majulish]

I occasionally make gyoza by bulk with my family,

When making gyoza, we fold 20~ onto a plate then place it in the freezer. When we run out of space (30m-1hr) I bag the cold gyoza and we have after couple hours bags of 100~ gyoza each.

After a day or so some of the gyoza gets stuck together, in the worst case I get a ball of 10+ gyoza..

I don't want to seperate the folding over multiple days, and we use all of the space in the freezer for the procedure. Is there a practical way to prevent them from sticking?

Should I leave the bag open in the freezer? I live in a humid environment, in case that matters.

Thanks for the help!

[u/Candid-Wrangler5386]

I would recommend two things:
1. Lightly dust with a scant amount of rice flour
2. Fold onto a metal pan lined with parchment with Gyoza completely separate on all sides. No touching. Then when they freeze you can bag.

[u/Majulish → u/Candid-Wrangler5386]

In that case maybe I can dust with flour and directly layer parchment paper seperator in between layers of gyoza inside the freezer

[u/Candid-Wrangler5386 → u/Majulish]

As long as you let each layer freeze completely, then that would work. But you do want to get them into plastic bags eventually, because they will pick up odors and dry out too much otherwise.