Little culinary tricks and secrets

because living in the North, I thought it was easier to prepare a pike fillet than to peel it, I could process a full baby bath at a time (I don't know how much is included in it), so I still have to remove the skin

Well, of course, after this practice ...
Eh, and some of them only dream of baths with fish.

Eh, and some of them only dream of baths with fish.

The most that neither is dreams: girl_in_dreams: I confirm!

The most that neither is dreams

, I sit down next to dream, I'm now in the city, far from those places, there is no fish, the experience remains, once a year a bag of ice cream falls over, but for me this is not work

A hen

[OgneLo]

OgneLo, Super !!!

Girls, boys! Please share how you freeze a large amount of dumplings in the warm season. Of course, not a Siberian scale in barrels, but ... about 300. In winter, everything is simple. On the balcony, the temperature is somewhere around 0 minus 2 degrees, the dumplings do not freeze. Therefore, I put all the contents of the freezer in buckets and onto the balcony. And in empty containers with one layer of dumplings. After a few hours, the dumplings freeze, I put them in bags, and I put the rest back in place.
But what to do in the warm season, I don't know.
Any suggestions?

Any suggestions?

freeze while it's cold!

freeze while it's cold!

Unfortunately not an option.

I put all the contents of the freezer in buckets

Wrap the buckets with fur coats and blankets and do not take them out onto the balcony. We've done that before. There was a time when hundreds of dumplings were made at any time of the year.

Wrap the buckets with fur coats and blankets and do not take them out onto the balcony.

I agree, it should help not to thaw, but also to wrap each package in a newspaper, they also keep the temperature well. When I take frozen food to the city, and this is 2-3 hours on the road, I wrap everything in several layers of newspapers and in bags, if there is pimpled polyethylene, it insulates well, and I bring it completely unfrozen
And if there is a refrigerator bag, then unload food from the refrigerator and frozen cold accumulators on top, in this case it is enough for 5-7 hours, so we carry frozen food to Seliger

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Any suggestions?

I do it in small portions, on a baking board and immediately put it on a tray in the freezer (which is flat and large). While I still make portions, these stick well, put them in one layer in a bag and put them in the freezer drawers until they are completely frozen.
Or if there is space in the boxes, I put it there on a small baking board, until it is completely frozen, then into bags.

In general, I get out as much as I can, you need to have free space in the freezer drawers in any case.

Several layers of polyethylene will definitely prevent thawing. Once we were carrying frozen catfish from Balkhash to Karaganda in a 30-degree heat, 400 km along a terrible road, driving for 5-6 hours. So they didn't thaw at all.

[Ilmira]

Ilmira, Galina, Buttercup, Tatyana, Wiki, girls, thank you so much! : rose: I somehow didn't think about blankets and so on, so that everything from the freezer would not defrost, although this was how they wanted to transport to the dacha
That is why the Chinese have not yet thought of making two or three tiered grates in the freezer specifically for freezing small things?
found something similar in Kyrgyzstan

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to make two or three tiered grates in the freezer just for freezing small things?

For these purposes, and without the Chinese, I buy small plastic trays so that they fit into the freezer drawers

And for the dough, dumplings, noodles, dough I bought such baking trays, they can also be transported to the dacha, they are large 40x60 cm.
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...581.0

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, Tan, and there is no clearer picture? I would look for where to buy.

I bought on ozone
Cutting board "Pie", with a side, color: beige, 40 x 60 x 4 cm 🔗

[celfh]

That is why the Chinese have not yet thought of making two or three tiered grates in the freezer.

celfh, Tanya, and you haven't seen Scarecrow showed that her husband himself made an excellent multi-level thing for freezing dumplings. Moreover, the material for this was bought in a regular store (like OBI). Knock on her to see if she can give you a link. I don't remember where Nata showed. I only remember that I really like it

but you didn’t see, the Scarecrow showed

I didn't see the light, but thanks for the tip

[celfh]

celfh, Tatyana, here
Dumplings and dumplings mold # 2434

two or three tiered grates in the freezer

There are plastic trays for freezing, they fit into each other for compact storage and are stacked in the freezer if you put them with a turn on each other.

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[celfh]

celfh,
For freezing, trays are preferable not from plywood or wood, but from plastic. Less heat capacity, thinner, and generally better heat transfer. Have Scarecrows the design is magnificent (respect to my husband!), if it were also made of plastic trays - there would be no price at all!

And I once had a refrigerator (Orsk in my opinion) and it had two shelves for dumplings. What a handy thing! I would not refuse this now. For each I had exactly 100 pieces.
And, no, it was Biryusa.

Teskoma has an oven dryer, maybe you can put it in the freezer for dumplings

I have a cutting board just the size of a drawer in the freezer. It is glassy, ​​thin, with a slightly rough surface. I cover it with plastic, a cut bag, for example, sprinkle with flour. I spread dumplings in one layer. When it is all filled with dumplings, I put another package on top, sprinkle with flour, lay out dumplings. Usually I get three layers like this. The lower ones are not crushed, because they already have time to grab, the dumplings are removed from the polyethylene perfectly, even if something is stuck somewhere. Freezer space is at least as high.

[Scarecrow]

For freezing, trays are preferable not from plywood or wood, but from plastic.

My boards are more intended for something else, in principle, this is what they bought:
Intended:
- for drying food, vegetables and fruits.
- dry the aromatic salt
- arrange ready-made dumplings, dumplings
- spread the noodles
At home, there is always not enough space and large baking trays where you can put something for summer preparations, or in the kitchen. Additional area will not interfere. You don't need anything in winter, but in summer you always think about where to find another large tray, where to put it ... Even put the berries to dry in the freezer before laying, put the washed vegetables before conservation, dry the jars, dry the fragrant salt .. there are many options. For this, large "areas" are needed.

Many pallets from stores "especially for dumplings" are very beautiful, but they are more suitable for empty drawers of a freezer-cabinet, or a freezer-chest, as Natasha wrote and showed about it Scarecrow.
And when the boxes of freezers, especially the cabinets, are completely packed with food, no special pallets will fit in there. And you need to store them somewhere in your free time, they are cumbersome. Dumplings and dumplings are not harvested by tons every day.
This is where the option described by me, or Zhenya, comes in handy Rick - we do gradual freezing and filling. Or in advance, knowing the time of the preparations, empty the freezer boxes for a day, transferring food from the boxes, or eating them hard.

or eating them hard.

[Yuliya K]

By recommendation Yuliya K, ordered pallets, literally three days later they brought it, shipping cost is cheap -49 rubles

Yulia, on Saturday we will test

[Tatyana]

on Saturday we will test

Tatyana, successful tests! Wow, how quickly they delivered!

[celfh]

celfh,
So, sir, I missed where to order, otherwise I will always be in town

[Lena]

Lena, I also saw such in My-shop. I'm also thinking - to order or not ...

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Lena, I saw such people in My-shop too. I'm also thinking - to order or not ...

And I already ordered. At first I ran with a tape measure near the refrigerator.

[Elena]

Elena, look, in the same place
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[zvezda]

zvezda, I saw .... Well I wrote that I licked my lips at her for a long time ... The price is ..

[Elena17]

Elena17,
Thank you, Len! I will also order it most likely - yesterday I forgot to measure the size of the freezer

we will test Saturday

The tests were successful. All three hundred with a little dumplings are frozen perfectly. 4 trays fit tightly into one freezer container. Output exactly 3 kg of dumplings
I sprinkled flour on the pallets just in case. Whether it is necessary to do this, I do not know. The question arose to the fact that they put 9 * 7 = 63 dumplings on the first pallet, as in the picture. Then I decided to put them tighter, 9 * 8 = 72. Somewhere the dumplings touched, somewhere they lay down without flour. When I was freezing on a wooden board, the dumplings could stick together. Nothing stuck to these pallets.



the pallet fits into the freezer perfectly, hands pass easily



well, the result pleased

Dream!

EXPERIMENT: 500,000 MATCHES vs FISH

[Ludmila]

Dream!

Ludmila, then so ... You will drive through the Vladimir region, as soon as you see the Meat Shop, do not be too lazy to stop and buy 1.2 kg of meat there. No, of course you can buy a half carcass for 2 tons, but if you need 3 kg of dumplings at the output, then 1.2 kg and 222 rubles are enough to pay for this meat. Plus onions, flour, eggs and salt - and your dream for 100 rubles. per kilogram will not apply
This is not an advertisement, the guys really have very good meat. They also promised to make a bakery and bring their technologist uncle, then they will also have delicious bread

EXPERIMENT: 500,000 MATCHES vs FISH

And people are not too lazy to conduct such experiments?

You will drive through the Vladimir region, as soon as you see the Meat Shop, do not be too lazy to stop and buy 1.2 kg of meat there. No, of course you can buy a half carcass for 2 tons, but if you need 3 kg of dumplings at the output, then 1.2 kg and 222 rubles are enough to pay for this meat.

I want beef at 200 rubles per kg. Where to find this store

Where to find this store

They only have pork

So we want good and inexpensive meat and fresh.
I went to the store today, and there boneless beef is the cheapest, almost 600 rubles.

They only have pork

It's a shame. And I have already persuaded my husband to go. They've stopped eating pork.
We went to a sanatorium in Brest in January, and there we bought beef for sausage for 240 rubles.

We also have beef and lamb more expensive than pork. And homemade pork is more expensive than market and store pork. The last time we took pork from a household at 400 rubles per kilo, not pulp. Almost nobody keeps cattle anymore.

[Ludmila]

Ludmila, then so ... You will drive through the Vladimir region, as soon as you see the Meat Shop, do not be too lazy to stop and buy 1.2 kg of meat there. No, of course you can buy a half carcass for 2 tons, but if you need 3 kg of dumplings at the output, then 1.2 kg and 222 rubles are enough to pay for this meat. Plus onions, flour, eggs and salt - and your dream for 100 rubles. per kilogram will not apply
This is not an advertisement, the guys really have very good meat. They also promised to make a bakery and bring their technologist uncle, then they will also have delicious bread

But I will still be driving through the Vladimir region at the end of March, we are planning to go to Kazan by car on vacation.
Where do you say to look for the Butcher's shop?
I am writing down...

I am writing down...

Are they going to Kazan via Alexandrov? I don’t know in that direction, we mainly drive in the direction of Gus-Khrustalny and Murom. I have a business card with a phone, call and ask where else they have shops.

8-920-932-00-50 Vazgen

Are they going to Kazan via Alexandrov? I don’t know in that direction, we mainly drive in the direction of Gus-Khrustalny and Murom. I have a business card with a phone, call and ask where else they have shops.

8-920-932-00-50 Vazgen

Thank you!

Girls share my discovery with you! Perhaps it already happened, but for myself, I reached it myself.
In summer, when preserved, I am very scrupulous. Purchased cucumbers-tomatoes, so I try to roll up everything with minimal leftovers.
Last season, when rolling cucumbers, there was a certain amount left - not enough for a whole jar. I decided to cut them into cubes like for salads (Olivier, vinaigrette ...) and roll them up like ordinary cucumbers, only in half-liter jars.
My husband laughed at me ... But whatever the child amused himself ...
So, today I opened them !!! It's so cool - the pickled cucumbers for the salad are already cut !!! Drain the brine and into the salad. They do not differ from solid ones.
I'm so happy) Now I will definitely close it like this in the winter along with the usual ones)
Yes, I'm lazy. But laziness is the engine of progress !!!
Well, a photo in the studio:

[Olga]

Well, a photo in the studio

iiiii I'm right here all in anticipation I'm sitting, waiting, where is the photo that should be in the studio?
Olga, an interesting idea, thanks, you will also have to try to do this, otherwise cucumbers remain the same and I don't know where to attach