New Freezer...Advice Needed Please!

r.mac_2 · 17 September 2005 at 11:26AM

hi P-P

Glad you like your new freezer. I organise mine using a couple of large plastic containers - the ones you can use to store toys in. I get four in my freezer, two on top of two. This means that I can lift out the tops ones and easily get to the bottom half of the freezer

a couple of small cardboard boxes would probably work just as well.

Cheese freezes well in chunks, but does get more crumbly, soft cheeses can also be frozen - I freeze dolcellate and it is fine.

I don't use much milk, so only have one small one in the freezer - but I always forget it's there!!!

If I buy lots of veggies I cook them before freezing - make a big pasta sauce or ratatoille (sp) with them first. Then freeze in portion sizes.

TM's idea on freezing chopped onions is great.

the advice on seperating into portions is also really important - Having learned this mistake the hard way. I was cooking for one and wanted some sausages, took the packet of 12 out of the freezer to defrost then had to eat sausages used in a creative and different way for each meal the rest of that week!!! :rotfl:

best of luck

MATH · 17 September 2005 at 12:24PM

Cooked rice is brill for the freezer. Once cooked run under a cold tap in a sieve so the grains cool and seperate and then freeze in tubs. I find the cold water rinse makes the rice freeflow so you can take out a handful at a time and the water acts as a frozen glaze which then steams the grains hot again in the micro. Sometimes I toss fried onion, pepper, mushroom and sweetcorn through the cold rice before tubbing and then you have a ready meal accompanyment to most meals for the days time runs out.