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Foods you can freeze besides meat and produce:
A freezer can be a highly useful appliance in your kitchen. You probably already use it to store staples such as frozen veggies and ground beef. However, you may have wondered about other items, especially if you're stocking up to shelter at home to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus. Can you freeze milk, for instance? What about eggs and cheese?
As you'll see, there are several dry and refrigerated pantry items you can freeze too.
[...] All foods will last indefinitely in a frozen state. However, the food is only as fresh as the state it was in prior to freezing. Once it defrosts, it must be used as soon as possible. In general, frozen food will keep for three months in a standard home freezer. The FDA has specific recommendations for the shelf life for foods, but if you aren't using your frozen goods within three months, you're probably buying too much.
[...] According to the USDA, you can freeze almost any food. However, some foods don't freeze well; apples and pears will turn mushy when defrosted, cream sauces will separate and raw tomatoes will never be the same (but you can still put them in sauces).
Fortunately, there are many foods that freeze and defrost beautifully. So, go ahead and stock up on these 10 pantry staples you can freeze:
There are caveats and cautions listed with several of these items, so be sure to read the source article for details before proceeding! The items listed are:
- Milk
- Eggs
- Cheese
- Butter
- Bread
- Flour
- Chocolate
- Fresh herbs
- Cooked rice and pasta
- Nuts
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 27 2020, @11:47PM (2 children)
Unless I skipped over it, no one mentioned frozen fish. We happen to like steelhead trout and for awhile one of the more distant local markets had a good source that was vacuum bagged and frozen directly after filleting. At first we bought it defrosted in the fish case (and cooked that day). Later we got to know the fish guy and he let us buy it frozen. So we'd buy a few and save some trips to his store.
Now we have a source of fresh, so when it comes in we buy a few and freeze them. Just defrosted one last week, wonderful, frozen at least 6 months ago. We bake in the oven: put on a baking sheet with raised edges, fully wrapped in wide aluminum foil, sprinkle liberally with Worcestershire sauce (really!) before folding up the foil. Depends on the thickness, usually 12-15 minutes at 450F is enough.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday March 28 2020, @07:52AM (1 child)
Alternatively, you could spray it with WD40 and then fry it. It won't stick to the pan, and it gives it an interesting taste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 29 2020, @01:48AM
Where do you want to meet for the taste test? I'll bring the baked (with dousing of Worcestershire) and you do it your way with petroleum.