Freezing Couscous

Party_Animal wrote:

just had some of that quick couscous for my lunch with some tuna and salad after spending the morning chopping down trees. There is some left. Can I freeze it?
Thanks

Just found this on another site. Sounds like it'll be fine to freeze. I'd risk it!

<LI>Second time around for couscous, rice, etc. Freeze leftover couscous or rice in a sturdy plastic bag with a recloseable top. Be sure to work out all the air before closing. Next time you need couscous or rice, open the top of the plastic bag, so it won't explode, and zap on high for 1 minute. Squeeze and knead the couscous, to mix it up, and zap again. Repeat until it is heated throughout. Spoon right onto dinner plates.

This also works for spaghetti, noodles and other cooked pastas. Don't add water for the reheating, and don't remove the food from the plastic bag.
This is from "What Else Can I Do With My Microwave?" by Ruth Spear. If you have leftovers, remember the plastic bag trick.

Oh, so you can't. Hm. Now I'm thinking I've been storing everything wrong in my freezer.

Edit: But that can't be because most of the packs of shop bought stuff has plenty of air in them. Maybe she's just trying to save space instead of having bags like balloons.

Hmm, I freeze stuff in tupperware too.

What to do, I'm scared to eat it now. :eek:

My big plan was, freeze all leftovers, and have leftover day once a week.

Hoping it will help cut my shopping bill, and my waistline, :rolleyes: as I hate to throw stuff away. Lol :A

crana999 wrote:

Sqeaky - I'm not entirely sure about frozen stuff, but when you buy things like bags of crisps, they are usually filled with nitrogen, not air, which is less reactive and prolongs the life of the food. They usually say "Packaged in a protective atmosphere" if they are.

So it's not quite the same.

I've worked in more than one area of the food industry myself. Some firms use nitrogen... a whole bunch of them don't.

Squeaky's Rule of Thumb:- If you look at, for example, a pack of frozen prawns, in the freezer section...

..and you pick the pack up and can squeeze some of the (very probably limited) air out of it - it ain't sealed with nitrogen. It's fairly flat because it's been "pricked". Turn it over and look very closely at the back. You'll see one or a few little !!!!!! marks, in sets, at regular intervals, somewhere in neat little lines. I know. We used to have to sharpen and re-set the darn little prickers every few hundred thousand pack or so.

..if you can't squeeze any air out of your pack of whatever_it_is then yes, it might be sealed in nitrogen.

Just thought I'd tell you that