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posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 27 2020, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the gonna-need-a-bigger-freezer dept.

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

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday March 28 2020, @02:08PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Saturday March 28 2020, @02:08PM (#976629) Homepage
    Says who? Which chemicals in the spices do you think break down into what, and by what mechanism?

    Here's my counter argument, said with exactly as much evidence as your absurd statement: Freezing preserves the spicing in curries excellently.

    And here's my evidence: my curries never degrade with freezing, and in fact some improve. One data point not enough? How about basically every single person who weighed in on this issue here: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1945646
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  • (Score: 2) by beckett on Saturday April 04 2020, @04:43PM (2 children)

    by beckett (1115) on Saturday April 04 2020, @04:43PM (#979065)

    If you can't taste the difference between a fresh and frozen-then-thawed your curry, then you do you.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday April 05 2020, @09:17AM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Sunday April 05 2020, @09:17AM (#979335) Homepage
      Then I do what?

      However, I do hope you realise that no matter what I might conditionally "do", your statement is about as logical as "If my gran had 3 legs, she'd be a camera tripod".
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      • (Score: 2) by beckett on Thursday April 09 2020, @12:47AM

        by beckett (1115) on Thursday April 09 2020, @12:47AM (#980452)

        Sounds like you’ll figure it out.