Frozen Food

DavidKlyne replied on 30/06/2022 16:13

Posted on 30/06/2022 16:13

I just thought I would share this with you as I have been having quite a long running discussion with Waitrose regarding their instructions for freezing their food products. You often see jokes, especially from people with big chest freezers how they find something in the bottom that has been there years! For years we have been buying food and freezing it. One of the advantages of some offers is to buy more at a cheaper rate than you can immediately use and freeze the rest. A while ago we noticed that nearly all Waitrose packaged food, mainly meat but ready meals as well, said that the product could be frozen but it had to be used within a month of its original use by date. Checking other supermarkets they seem to be doing the same, the exception seems to be M&S who say 3 months on some of their packaging. The long and short of it I have at long last got Waitrose to accept that keeping things frozen for longer is perfectly safe but you might have to accept that there could be some deterioration in how it looks and taste compared to eating it when freshly purchased. 

David

TonyIshUK replied on 02/07/2022 17:20

Posted on 02/07/2022 17:20

The above replies all seem very professional.  ;-)


The navigator has a photographic mind when using the freezer and pulls out the right home prepared in its frozen state most of the time.

That said, having mince meat balls with a cup of tea , or  bran and raisin balls with spaghetti is intended, I am told.

i had suggested sticky labels, but been told that knowing what is in the bag lessens cooking creativity.

 

Rgds

replied on 02/07/2022 17:26

Posted on 02/07/2022 17:20 by TonyIshUK

The above replies all seem very professional.  ;-)


The navigator has a photographic mind when using the freezer and pulls out the right home prepared in its frozen state most of the time.

That said, having mince meat balls with a cup of tea , or  bran and raisin balls with spaghetti is intended, I am told.

i had suggested sticky labels, but been told that knowing what is in the bag lessens cooking creativity.

 

Rgds

Posted on 02/07/2022 17:26

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ABM replied on 02/07/2022 17:51

Posted on 02/07/2022 17:51

Some where in the depths of my memory I seem to recall that foods left in the Arctic, but more often the Antarctic,  by the early explorers  are found to be reasonably tasty always excepting those in metal cans. Tin poisoning appears more likely than anything else since they never found a successful method of totally sealing away the steel of the can and so the tin -lining, round those seams, tends to fragment and do nasty things to the contents and then anybody eating them surprised.

Now I'll head off and look for a nice drop of Scotch Broth to spread on my ice cream  wink

replied on 02/07/2022 18:16

Posted on 02/07/2022 17:51 by ABM

Some where in the depths of my memory I seem to recall that foods left in the Arctic, but more often the Antarctic,  by the early explorers  are found to be reasonably tasty always excepting those in metal cans. Tin poisoning appears more likely than anything else since they never found a successful method of totally sealing away the steel of the can and so the tin -lining, round those seams, tends to fragment and do nasty things to the contents and then anybody eating them surprised.

Now I'll head off and look for a nice drop of Scotch Broth to spread on my ice cream  wink

Posted on 02/07/2022 18:16

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ABM replied on 02/07/2022 22:01

Posted on 02/07/2022 22:01

NOW NOW, DD  that's quite naughty  and to think that I was praising you t'other day, before my  post got Deleted User by a Mod  wink

richardandros replied on 03/07/2022 12:22

Posted on 02/07/2022 14:40 by

But did the Wooly Mammoth still taste okay? 😂

Posted on 03/07/2022 12:22

It's not the taste you have to worry about - but the woolly bits getting stuck in your teeth is a bit of a nuisancesmile

scoutman replied on 04/08/2022 14:09

Posted on 04/08/2022 14:09

Last evening my wife decided to dive into the chest freezer to recover two homemade "cottage pies" for our meal. When cooked and served up turned out to be one fish pie and one cheese and potato pie. Once again she said, "I really must label things" lol

JollyKernow replied on 04/08/2022 21:23

Posted on 04/08/2022 21:23

 Evening

We're having a back office/ kitchen rejig so taking the opportunity to defrost the fridge freezer for a deep clean. Found in the depths 2 M&S rump steaks that are 16 months old. Mrs says "in the skip", I however don't like food waste so this morning it was steak and eggs on the cadac for breakfast. It was lush. Saving the other one for Saturday morning, big day won't get a lunch break! There is half a bag of frozen peas but I can'tundecided

JK

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