Home freezer - what can be stored in it and how to use it

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[instant]

I have never completely melted, I simply don’t have enough patience for this.

pouring boiling water gives instant defrosting without loss of taste

I freeze any grapes - both sour and sweet - what is sweeter on the market - fresh, sour - in baked goods, in pilaf

[Irsha]

Irsha, it's you, in the Trans-Urals it is necessary to freeze the grapes that are.
And we in Moldova and twist our nose.

Frozen grapes and chocolate are delicious!

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And we in Moldova and twist our nose.

yes I see

although we buy your grapes, well, that is, not grown here, and we also spend money, so we also have to smell = bad \ good

no, really - I love every grape, and even sour it tastes better

[Irsha]

Irsha, it's you, in the Trans-Urals it is necessary to freeze the grapes that are.
And we in Moldova and twist our nose.

And we are not doing it in Moldova either

I am writing further impressions of the freezing experiments.
Garlic is grown in the country. There is nowhere to store it. Therefore, closer to the New Year, it withers and deteriorates, sheer annoyance. In the previous season, I decided to freeze some of the garlic. I'll tell you, I'm delighted. Now that's the only way.

[Taia]

Taia, in more detail, please, about freezing garlic. It is very interesting how it was frozen, whole or sliced, and does the garlic retain its smell and properties after defrosting?

more details, please, about freezing garlic

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about cucumbers

Irochka, thanks for the idea, I will definitely use it. But whole teeth are also needed, we love to grate toasts for soup-borscht.

we like to grate toasts with borscht soups

we also love, for this I rub the garlic on a grater into freezing, choosing larger cloves for convenience, or pass them through a garlic press, for her, the smaller the cloves, the more convenient

then I rub it with salt and freeze, you can add odorous vegetable oil

and smear it thinly on a piece of bread, you get an unobtrusive garlic taste and aroma

without salt, garlic freezes into a pebble and loses its garlic taste during thawing, salt also acts as a preservative and prevents freezing

[I do not defrost]

more details, please, about freezing garlic.

Nothing complicated.
She gutted the head of garlic into cloves. I removed the excess husk, but did not clean the cloves themselves, left them in the shirt. I poured all the cloves into a tight bag with a zip-lock. Well, in the freezer. When I prepare food, I pour as much from the bag as needed. I do not defrost, I clean and go straight to business.
There was no smell in the freezer at all, the garlic does not take up much space, since everything unnecessary was removed.

[Irsha]

I never thought that garlic in the cloves could be frozen. Do not forget until the fall, and take advantage of the advice and IrshaandTaia, by freezing garlic.
This year I have frozen garlic, ground in a meat grinder. I spread the crushed mass into the cells of a silicone mold and then lost these frozen cubes somewhere in the depths of the freezer chest. I didn't try to find this package, I still had my own fresh garlic. But my garlic is already running out, there are 10 pieces of suitable cloves left, and yesterday I chose and threw out the rest. Now I read and remembered about these frozen arrows.

Girls, I'm in trouble here. Not on a universal scale, of course, but still ... In general, the freezer broke. Now the task is where to urgently dispose of a total of about 30 kg of peaches, plums, apricots, strawberries, etc. Here is an ambush. Any ideas? It will start melting soon

[Saba]

Saba, Natasha-Chuchelka has a recipe for a wonderful rum pot, fruits and berries are poured with alcohol, it turns out a wonderful drink! part of the berries can be quickly processed into five-minute jam, compotes, jams

a task where to urgently dispose of a total of about 30 kg of peaches, plums, apricots, strawberries, etc.

Make marshmallow in the dryer CONTENTS OF THE SECTION "RECIPES FOR ELECTRIC DRYER"

Put on jams and jams - it will work out great, and can be well preserved

Arrange in jars and sprinkle with sugar - they will stand in the refrigerator for a while, you can eat with tea every day

Urgently put on compotes, preserve under lids - the fastest preservation option in this situation. Do five minutes under the covers

[Reine de Saba]

Reine de Saba, negotiate with family-friends-neighbors and throw a bag into their freezers.

[Tina]

Tina, Tatyana, thank you. Probably five-minute jam is the most suitable option. And for him you need to defrost everything to the end or so, half-frozen to cook? Now I want to break the strawberries in a blender and mix with sugar.
Elya, to the neighbor, I have already identified all the greens and semi-finished products.

And for him it is necessary to defrost everything to the end or so, half-frozen to cook?

I do not defrost, I fall asleep with sugar and put it on the fire

That is, you don't need to let it stand before cooking, etc.? I have peaches in half. I'll go get some sugar. Like this, everyone makes jam in the summer, and I am in the middle of winter

[Saba]

Saba, I would do peaches in halves like this: sprinkle with sugar, bring to a boil, cool completely, then again to a boil. And so several times. If you're lucky, you will be able to keep the halves intact

And you can also cook silt

[Stafa]

Stafa, oh, how cool! So I'll do the apricots. It remains to attach the plums. I read somewhere about a plum blank. And I even cooked it slowly, there it was necessary to grind and boil it in a blender. Now I will look too.
Peaches are already boiling

[Saba]

Saba, put the plum into a saucepan, cover with sugar and cook until softened, not for long. Then grind with an immersion blender right in the pan. Pour everything into a deep, wide baking sheet and put it in the oven. The fire is not strong, 150 degrees. The result is a thick jam, sometimes it is necessary to stir in a baking sheet. All business for 30 minutes.

So I will do apricots

Be careful with apricots !!!! When defrosting, they become dark in color, tanned!
For this reason, apricots do not need to be thawed - covered with sugar and immediately on fire. Or make sugar syrup and immediately lower the frozen apricots and stir so that the apricots are completely covered with the syrup. Then the bright beautiful color of apricots will be completely preserved.

[Taya]

Taya, thank you, the plums are boiled, now I will blender.
Admin, Tatyana, about apricots, you are on time. Thank you
Horror, I haven't worked like that for a long time.
Thank you all very much. By all-round efforts, there were almost no losses.

Girls, please tell me, I need to freeze kohlrabi and root celery (cubes, cubes) - then use it for soups - can you do that?

Can! Only then do not defrost it, and put it in the soup (or steam it) frozen

I always freeze root celery, cut into small strips. The tubers are healthy, you don't use them right away. But they are very smelly, I put on 2 bags at once.

Thanks girls for the advice

Girls, tell me, please, since the summer of 2014 - that is, it has been in the freezer for 1.5 years with mashed potatoes from country plums - there is -18 degrees. Throw it away or can you use it?

[Olga]

Olga, throw it out definitely!
Shelf life of food in the freezer: Chicken and other poultry can be stored in pieces for 9 months, whole - up to a year.
Beef, pork, lamb, horse meat - 4-6 months.
Various fish: fatty - 2-3 months, the rest - 6 months.
Seafood is usually stored for 3-4 months.
Semi-finished products (dumplings, dumplings, cutlets, pancakes, cabbage rolls, minced meat, etc.) are usually 3-4 months old, you can find out more on the package.
Ready meals, including broths and soups, sauces, cutlets, etc. - 2-3 months.
Vegetables and fruits, except melons, cucumbers, cabbage, lettuce, celery and radish. Stored up to 1 year, except for tomatoes (2 months), peppers (3-4 months), zucchini and pumpkins (10 months), apples (4 months), apricots (6 months), peaches (4 months)
Mushrooms: boiled for up to 1 year, raw - 8 months.
The berries are usually stored for six months.
Nuts - up to 2 years.
Greens and herbs
Ice cream can be stored for 2 months.
Puff pastry
Margarine and butter can be stored for about 9 months.
Bakery products (bread, muffins, etc.) - 2-3 months.

[Jenealis]

Jenealis, Eugene, thank you very much for the information - I will throw it out, sorry, of course! And your dumplings from August? You should probably also throw it away - there are not many of them, thank God!

[Ol]

Ol, I'm not a pro in this sense, I just saved this information for myself, found it on the net. But when I was little, my father was in the military, lived on the border with Afgan, and he was given frozen meat from the Cold War era. How did you know? The skins were stamped with dates. We ate of course, because there was nowhere to go. Of course I don't remember that, my parents told me. But nevertheless, everyone is alive, and mmm are healthy so it's up to you, of course! And I, since I bought a two-door refrigerator with a large freezer, on each package of glue I have the date of packing, so that it would not be thought and forgotten. We eat what was previously frozen.

No, well, what will be done to the plums? Compote can be cooked.

[redleafa]

redleafa, I have mashed plums - how to cook compote? Nope, what if the truth has already changed in the structure? Still, probably, it is better to throw it away from sin ...

I agree with purchased dumplings - definitely to throw out

And what happens to the fruit? From season to season, my fruits, berries, vegetables lie easily, and nothing spoils. In the freezer, after all, minus 18-24 * C freezes tightly Sometimes they lie for more than a year, eat slowly, or even start jams - until no one is dead, everyone is alive and well and otvitamins in full

I have mashed plums

Allow to defrost in the refrigerator and devour sweet plums on pancakes

I often do this - I defrost the berries with sugar and water the pancakes with them - very good

You can also cook fruit drink - only a lot of dirty foam will have to be removed - I don't like that

I had a turn for a year and a half. All hands did not reach him. We got it. Made the sauce. Sweet and sour turned out. Children eat with meat, and mushshsh makes like fruit drink, dilutes it with boiling water, doesn't even add sugar! Tasty, but there is Adyghe salt, it's with pepper !!!!

[Admin]

Admin, Tatyana, then don't throw it away? After all, not last year's puree, but BEFORE last year! In the summer of 2014! And the dumplings are not purchased, but our own, made in August 2015 - throw it away?

[anavi]

anavi, Do not throw it away! If everything was stored normally and did not defrost before, nothing happened to them in the freezer .. well, just in case, make pies filled with mashed potatoes, and do not eat so that the heat treatment was .. and with dumplings it is unlikely that could have happened .. boil a little. try .. if there is no taste of rancid fat, then everything is fine with dumplings

Thank you girls, I'll take a chance all the same!

I have such an "age" currant. I bake muffins no problem.

I have currants and cherries for two years and are normal. Now I add currants to the cottage cheese for small ones in 2014.

girls and someone frozen boiled chickpeas? how then? tasty?

girls and someone frozen boiled chickpeas? how then? tasty?

I freeze all the time, then make hummus and muffins from chickpea puree.

[Anna1957]

Anna1957, came here ... on the topic just

Is it possible to freeze ready-made baked chicken legs? And how to do it correctly? And if you can then defrost them in the microwave on defrosting ?? And how long can they be stored? In general, a bunch of questions. Tell me please.

[Crook]

Crook, I freeze in a freezer container), defrost in the refrigerator before cooking and reheat in the oven ...

You can store it in the freezer for quite a long time), I try not to keep it for a long time, so that space in the freezer does not take up ...