Freezing, defrosting, cooking.

dlb

Thats sounds best, i just put stuff in on a low heat and keep checking you will know yourself when its ready, there are no hard fast rules on reheating, just cook it until its cooked all the way through.

Nicki

vanilla wrote: »

i did look through a few web sites that suggested a hot oven is 300degress but surly that would burn the outside and leave the inside cold, or it would burn the whole thing .

Must have been American websites. They quote oven temps in fahrenheit, whereas, unless your cooker is really really ancient, ours will be in centigrade!

I would call a hot oven anything from 180 upwards. Mine only goes to a maximum of 250, and I only ever have it up that high for a final blast on roast potatoes. The maximum I usually use is 220, and more often 180 or 200 even if the food is being cooked from frozen.

HTH

vanilla

Thanks it was an american site but 180-200 thats what i'll try.:beer:

freyasmum

liz545 wrote: »

Crucially, label stuff with indelible pens/proper labels with details of what it is, when you made it, and any important cooking information - nothing worse than defrosting what you thought was cottage pie and finding it's apple crumble!

I agree with everything that liz has written, but I would just like to re-emphasize this particular point! I have done this far too many times But still I forget and have to try and work out what the object is (e.g. a chicken breast or on the bone). It's quite difficult when it's frozen

As long as you remember these two very basics:

• cool and freeze as quickly as possible after cooking.
• you can freeze something that has previously been frozen (in it's pre-cooked state) providing that it has only been cooked once.

Lx

Seakay

vanilla wrote: »

Will go and see if tesco's have any containers tomorrow.

I think i'm just afraid of the reheating incase i poision everyone, i did look through a few web sites that suggested a hot oven is 300degress but surly that would burn the outside and leave the inside cold, or it would burn the whole thing .

Tyhanks everyone for the advice

300F = 150C = Gas Mark 2, so a really cool oven

240°C/475°F/gas mark 9 is as hot as most ovens go, so I don't think that the site that you saw can have meant 300C