Tips for freezing food?

Emaheevul07
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:04:26 +0000

We freeze TONS of food, my mom always makes extra servings of things so she can freeze them, and so I can take them back to my dorm or to my boyfriend-- and I only cook two or three times a week and eat leftovers the other nights, so I freeze a lot, too. I don’t let it cool first, I just put it in the freezer-- never had a problem with the other food in the freezer warming up because of it, it seems the hot food cools enough to not be a problem before the frozen food can actually thaw. I make it a point to use glass storage containers for things like chili and spaghetti so the containers don’t get stained, and I just pop them in the freezer. Chili, spaghetti, lasagna, soup, just about anything.

The only time that I would let cool at all before freezing is if I were using the glass containers, which I only use for red things-- but that would include chili. I only just recently switched to glass so I haven’t had to do it yet, but I wouldn’t want it to shatter.