What atypical food items can be stored in a chest freezer?

I have successfully frozen breads and cheeses. What about gallons of milk? Do you need to pour off some of the milk to allow for expansion?

What other items? Asked by Tulip_is_gone 48 months ago Similar questions: atypical food items stored chest freezer Food & Drink > Food.

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Lotsa stuff Bread and rolls: I go to Costco and buy their dinner rolls by the big bag and then rebag them 4 per pack and freeze. Cheaper and one bag lasts for months. Also their Raisin Bread which is the best on the planet.

I HAVE to freeze that (2 slices per package) or I eat the whole bloody loaf in two days...and a jar of peanut butter and a pound of bacon too. A serious breach of my low carb-low fat lifestyle. Speaking of bacon: I buy Cajun spiced bacon in big packages at the local smokehouse and freeze that in quarter pound packages.

Lots of soups and stews. I make big batches of chili, bean soup, beef in gravy, etc. Then package in serving size containers and freeze. Cheaper when you buy ingredients in bulk, saves a ton of work and most of those kinds of things actually improve in flavor in the freezer.

Hot peppers: When I can find (or grow) good ones in season I split and seed 'em and then pack them up in small food bags and freeze. I can pull 'em out all winter for chilis & soups and they beat the commercial junk from the grocery store produce aisle. I buy the big restaurant size cans of Mancini Sweet Roasted Red Peppers (extremely cheap at Costco compared to the little jars at the grocery store).

I use ice cube cups to freeze "one burger" size portions. Just pop one out, nuke for 30 second and toss in the pan with the burger to heat up. Cheap and tastes great.

When my kid was at home I used to buy big blocks of sliced American Cheese and froze that in half pound packages. Worked fine as long as you let it thaw out slowly..

We freeze just about everything! We have two regular freezers in the garage and a fullsize frost-free next to the fridge in the kitchen. All three are jammed by the end of autumn, as we grow most of our own veggies.

The chest freezer in the garage was originally intended for meat only, and we stocked it with a half beef (4H raised, and WOW, that is good! ) and some local salmon. Right now it has the remainder of the beef, lots of salmon, two legs of lamb, some pork chops, several gallons of frozen plums (I make my own jam bit by bit instead of trying to get it all done at harvest time), about twenty or thirty ziploc bags of banana squash, already cooked and ’smashed.

’ The beans are also in there, probaby another twenty ziploc bags. In the upright freezer are the frozen mashed potatoes (you can’t freeze raw potatoes, but if you cook them and mash them up you can stuff those in ziplocs, too, and freeze them -- and we grew potatoes for the first time this last summer), about ten or fifteen bags of blackberries from our back hedge, strawberries, blueberries, cucumber salad (probably twenty ziplocs still left), zucchini, both cut and pureed (for soup stock), several bags of marinara from our tomatoes, ...that’s all I can remember right now. In the inside freezer, next to the fridge, are loaves of bread, ice cream, some meats and veggies, dog food that I have made and frozen, ice cubes, Chris’ popsicles, a couple of prepared casseroles and a lasagna -- that sort of thing.

I also keep in there the opened bags of flour if there is not enough room for them in the cannisters. I’ve had moths before and they are NOT welcome here! As I mentioned to you in the note when you asked about milk, it freezes quite well, but do take some of the milk out first to give the rest room to expand without breaking the container.

You CANNOT freeze lettuce. You cannot freeze raw pears. Learned that one this year!

Some stuff is just trial and error, but I have found that almost anything can be frozen with a little preparation. When in doubt, look it up on the web. Go to Google, or wherever and type in something like "freeze apples" and just start reading.By the way, apples freeze quite well.

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Other items to put in a chest freezer... You can put Flour, Corn Meal, Sugar, Box Cereals in a deep freezer as well. If you have a problem with ants or other pesky bugs in your part of the country, its the easiest way to keep from having problems. (I know, I do it and so do my parents and my friends ).

I have heard that you can freeze gallons of milk, but have not tried....milk doesn't stay long in this house! Lol .

When I was a teen, we lived in a rural community. People would get their freezer (the big laying down freezers) ready before hunting season. If your name was drawn to get an elk permit that year, you'd need a place to put it when you got it.

I've never been a part of this process, but I can imagine what an ordeal it is from the size they can get. I've also seen people freeze large amounts of ravioli, homemade sauces, bulk cheese --which is less pricey per pound if you buy by the wheel. My mom used to freeze stand-up cartons of milk, but I don't have great memories of this working well.

If it's not all the way thawed when you go to pour it on you cereal once or twice, you get turned off to it. I'm not sure if she opened the carton slightly or not, but I know she didn't freeze the plastic containers.

Some unusual things I've frozen are.... Once in the middle of winter, when the ground was frozen solid, My daughter's lovely pet hare died and we had to freeze him till we had an adequate thaw and the ground was soft enough to give him a proper burial. Other strange things I've storred till I could deal with them were my husband's dress shirts that got color from other clothing transfered in the wash, and I did not want to dry them and did not have time to deal with properly, so they were frozen till I could treat properly. Other more normal use for the freezer was, we used to press our own apples and freeze the cider to have all year.

And yes we did pour a few inches off the top, to allow for expansion when freezing takes place! Sources: Strange housekeeping .

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