Another Quick Query

DizzyK_2

I'm full of them tonight

I'm making cheese, potato and onion pasties for a car journey tomorrow and have been overzealous in my chopping and grating. I have a bowl of diced potato, onion and grated cheese left over and I'm too knacked to make more pastry as I have a heap of other things to do before bed and then an early start.

Do you think it will survive just chucked in the freezer in a ziplock?

Thanks! xx

aliadds

Nothing to lose by trying it Dizzy. Especially if you can make sure its quite dry...maybe use some kitchen paper to take off any excess moisture!

Pink.

The cheese and onion will be fine. Is the potato cooked? If it is it will be fine but if the potato is raw, then unfortunately raw potato doesn't freeze well.

Pink

DizzyK_2

It is raw so I might just sling it. Cake gone horribly wrong and covered my jumper in ganache as well. Not having a particularly good evening. :mad:

Gingernutmeg

Could you not just whack it all in a greased baking dish and bake it, to make some kind of cheesy potato bake? You could always take slices of it to eat cold on the jouney - it'd be a bit stodgy but I'm sure it'd be tasty.

Justamum

Pink-winged wrote: »

The cheese and onion will be fine. Is the potato cooked? If it is it will be fine but if the potato is raw, then unfortunately raw potato doesn't freeze well.

Pink

But surely frozen chips are frozen raw?

ubamother

frozen chips I think are par-cooked then frozen. I know when I froze raw pots they were both a very weird texture and black when I defrosted them! Even when I par-boil pots for freezing for roasties if I don't do them enough the middle goes black

tim_n

Justamum wrote: »

But surely frozen chips are frozen raw?

believe they are treated by flash freezing - but generally supermarket frozen chips are infact reconsituted potato which has technically already been cooked.

I don't think I've seen real frozen chips - the local chippies I use all have machines for making chips from fresh potatoes.

Justamum

tim_n wrote: »

but generally supermarket frozen chips are infact reconsituted potato which has technically already been cooked.

That would probably explain the strange flavour and texture then :rolleyes:

Woofles

tim_n wrote: »

believe they are treated by flash freezing - but generally supermarket frozen chips are infact reconsituted potato which has technically already been cooked.

I don't think I've seen real frozen chips - the local chippies I use all have machines for making chips from fresh potatoes.

Strange you say that, I normally make home made chips, but do occasionally have a bag of frozen ones in if they are on offer. The last time I had some a few months ago now one of the chips was just an empty shell no potato, it did go through my mind at the time that these were reconstituted potato probably piped out given a coating of some kind and lightly fried. Unfortunately they were the last of the pack and by the time I remembered to check what it said on the bag what they actually were I had dumped something rather yucky on top it. But I will certainly check first before I buy anymore.

brumbrum

our local chippie does something called cheese and onion fry-it, which are delish its mashed potato onion and cheese all mixed together made into fishcake sized patties coated with egg and breadcrumbs and deep fried (or they do work if you bake them cause ive made them in the past) i bet you could freeze these once they are made up as the potato is cooked first.