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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: 2) by VLM on Saturday March 28 2020, @08:22PM
Bug or feature? If you want a crisp apple in your brown bag lunch, its a bug. If you want the worlds laziest applesauce, its a feature. If you're going to toss it in a high carb smoothie, which is not healthy but is delicious, then you don't really care one way or the other as long as its peeled first.
Something somehow missed is my pastry chef mother in law used to store her powdered confectioners sugar in the freezer. She doesn't understand all the thermodynamics, but the vapor pressure of water being very low in the freezer helps it remain lump free or at least less lumpy. I don't think you can do this for bulk storage due to condensation when you open the bag.