Retrogradation of starch gels (starch pastes) is often enhanced when they are subjected to freezing and thawing treatments. During freezing, the gel can separate into fractions by the formation of ice crystals, such that the starch is concentrated in a non-ice phase. When thawed, the ice crystals melt to form a mixture of water and gel. The freeze-thaw stability of starch gels has been evaluated by measuring the quantity of liquid that can be separated from a thawed gel after centrifugation [1][2][3][4][5]. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) has also been employed to assess the freeze-thaw stability of starch gels by measuring the retrogradation enthalpy after a number of freeze-thaw cycles [6][7]. White et al.[6] measured the retrogradation enthalpy of starch gels subjected to ten freeze-thaw cycles by heating them up to 120 °C. They showed that waxy maize and regular maize starch samples recovered 58% and 59% of the initial gelatinization enthalpies, respectively. Maquenne [8] investigated the effect of temperature on the rate of retrogradation and found that the rate of retrogradation of potato starch paste increased as the temperature decreased. Woodruff and McMasters [9] investigated the micro-structural change produced by freezing starch gels and they were among the first to conclude that freezing of starch gel could cause retrogradation. Albrecht et al.[10] examined the effect of freezing, storage and thawing on common maize starch gels. These freeze-thaw cycle procedures were employed to study retrogradation of potato starch gels and to develop techniques that improved the properties of processed potato starch granules [11][12]. The objective of our work was to investigate the effects of freezing and thawing techniques on freeze-thaw stability of starch gels. The use of liquid nitrogen in a cryogenic quick freezing (CQF) process and more traditional freezing, as well as thawing by different methods, were studied.The freeze-thaw stabilities of three different rice flour gels (amylose rice flour with 28% amylose, Jasmine rice flour with 18% amylose and waxy rice flour with 5% amylose) were studied by first freezing at -18 °C for 22 h and subsequent thawing in a water bath at 30 °C, 60 °C and 90 °C, or by boiling in a microwave oven. The freeze-thaw stability was determined for five cycles. Starch gels thawed at higher temperature exhibited a lower syneresis value (percent of water separation) than those thawed at lower temperature. Amylose rice flour gels gave the highest syneresis values (especially at the first cycle). The Jasmine rice flour gels gave a higher syneresis value than the waxy rice flour gel. Except for freezing by storage at -18 °C and thawing at 30 °C, there was no separation of water at any cycle when waxy rice flour gel was thawed at any temperature, irrespectively of the freezing methods used. Cryogenic Quick Freezing (CQF) followed by storage at -18 °C and then thawing (by boiling or by incubation at any other temperatures) gave lower syneresis values than all comparable samples fr...