this thread has destroyed all preconceptions I had about freezing food. To think I had been tossing food out after a month in the freezer. The horror!
How do you guys get all of that air out without a machine? I'm
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How do you guys get all of that air out without a machine? I'm
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Capt Caveman
Lifer
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Originally posted by: rasczak
this thread has destroyed all preconceptions I had about freezing food. To think I had been tossing food out after a month in the freezer. The horror!
How do you guys get all of that air out without a machine? I'm
They don't. They think they're getting all of the air out by just hand compressing the bag. There's still air in there.
I think the people throwing things away after a month in the freezer just show how we have become a throw away society with too much of everything. How many people in other countries would love to have enough food to toss out "old" stuff let alone have electricity or a freezer to plug in and use.
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Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: rasczak
How do you guys get all of that air out without a machine? I'm
They don't. They think they're getting all of the air out by just hand compressing the bag. There's still air in there.
RTFT, Private Caveman.
Spidey and others posted here that they use the time honored method of personally sucking the air out of the freezer bag, NOT just hand compressing the bag.
I find this can sometimes be incomplete, so, as I stated early on in the thread, I double wrap everything going into the freezer, first VERY TIGHTLY in CLING (SARAN) WRAP, so there is NO air, then over that in TIN FOIL, again very tightly.
My method works flawlessly. I recently found some somehow forgotten uncooked boneless chicken breast wrapped in this method from a long ago bulk (alternator sized) purchase. It was from Jan 2006, more than two years old. When I unwrapped it, the chicken breast was indistinguishable, in every way, from new!!!!!!!!!!
AIR is your enemy here. No air, no decomposition or spoilage.
And I know how old things in my freezer are because I slap a piece of masking tape on each wrapped item with a brief description of the contents and a freeze date written on with a marker.
When I cook up a bulk amount of spaghetti sauce or refried beans or some such that can't be easily wrapped in this way, I place a piece of cling wrap down tightly on the sauce/other in the container before capping that container with its regular lid, again making sure that no air will ever have the chance to spoil the contents.
You could call my way the "Manwhore Method", in that it involves dating everything in sight, but double wrapping for maximum protection!
In these matters, the Perknose Knows. :laugh:
lol Let's go all the way with "What sort of insulation is best for a homemade lesbian after 2 years in the freezer" ?
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