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The back of the freezer
« Thread Started on Apr 16, 2012, 7:55am »

Okay, will you ever eat what's back there? Do you even know what's back there? How long does it stay?

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #1 on Apr 16, 2012, 8:32am »

What a coincidence. Yesterday evening, Sra. Cuevas wa craving some mango sorbet that a guest had made for our barbecue a couple of weeks back. I found not only the leftovers of that sorbet, but some from another meal from two years ago. But the real find was some mysterious, cottony textured vanilla ice cream. It was cottony because it must have freeze dried over time, like a Peruvian mummy. I took a few spoonsful and threw out the rest. The sorbets were o.k. although the older of the two was somewhat granular.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #2 on Apr 16, 2012, 11:35am »

Naturally, I brought up the subject because I was in the back of my freezer last night. I suppose that I am lucky that it is pretty small, so I can never really "lose" anything in it, but I do have to face the evidence sometimes that I will not ever want to eat certain items that I have put there.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #3 on Apr 16, 2012, 12:21pm »

I have to get into the freezers to look for frost bitten items. I do wish I could manage my freezers better. :-/

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #4 on Apr 16, 2012, 3:09pm »

Today we defrosted the one freezer and it is now standing empty with doors slightly open.
This week it's the turn of my double door freezer/fridge. So tonight a really crazy mixed up dinner of freezer food

Homemade Vegetable soup ( the last of it)
A spinach and mozarella pizza - accompanied by:
A salad of sliced onion, tomato and avocado - fresh basil leaves from my garden.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #5 on Apr 16, 2012, 5:49pm »

Well, I decided to get rid of the remaining prawns, some Japanese vegetable dumplings, the end of a bag of chopped leeks, a bit of frozen lemon grass and some frozen peas.

Unfrozen additions were butter, olive oil and saffron, as well as the final bit of roquette.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #6 on Oct 23, 2012, 6:27pm »

Some of the 20 odd containers I used to freeze the results of this season's first fall/winter soup day. I made Turkey Vegetable, Mulligatawny, Thai Beef, Beef and Barley, Lobster Bisque and Cream of Cauliflower.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #7 on Oct 23, 2012, 10:05pm »

IMEC, that is a truly inspirational sight!

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #8 on Oct 24, 2012, 5:28am »

I marvel at you people!

I put beans & grains in the freezer because I'm always afraid of importing weevils into the house. I also put any coffee that that doesn't fit into the canister into the freezer. Every once in a great while I'll make a big batch of something & actually get it together to freeze and even label some of it.

Mostly I use the freezer to keep any items for the compost heap when I don't feel like going out to it to dump stuff.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #9 on Oct 24, 2012, 11:57am »

Oct 24, 2012, 5:28am, bixaorellana wrote:

Ditto here Bixa
The edible stuff that we had in the freezer pre Hurricane Isaac naturally were tossed. Very few if any items were salvaged (fresh squeezed lemon juice...).
We have yet to replenish some of the stuff that was in there,mostly some different homemade stocks which was somewhat painful to have to toss as they would have been used in fairly short order with the onset of cooler weather although, not nearly as ambitious as Imecs stash. It certainly makes sense when you have a family to feed and there's just the 2 of us.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #10 on Oct 25, 2012, 3:02am »

I tried to clean out my parent's big standup freezer this week, but couldn't pull the stuff out because it was frozen into a huge block of ice that has formed on the back wall of the freezer. A project for another day.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #11 on Oct 25, 2012, 6:44pm »

I defrosted my fridge at the beginning of the week. It only has one of these "ice compartments and its door is broken. I keep limoncello and some vodka in there. and sometimes I make a large portion of dal and freeze one portion for when I come back from the next London trip. (forgot to get the frozen dal to thaw last time and so had to buy my first lnch back in town. not good). I remember a piece of advice from OnlyMark that it would make the freezer "work less/use less energy" if it were full so I do try to put one or two meal portions or sometimes meat if I don't have time to eat it before I have to travel again. It only stays in there for a grand maximum of one month so i am not taking risks.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #12 on Nov 3, 2012, 4:39pm »

Oh, I really have to defrost my refrigerators as well -- and my ice compartment door is broken as well, so I know exactly what yours looked like, Annie. Yes, it is a total waste of energy to let the ice build up. I hate myself.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #13 on Jan 28, 2013, 11:45am »

With me it's the bottom of the freezer - sometimes I really wish I had a stand-up model. Mysterious things lurk down there.

I am currently on a mission to eat something out of the freezer every week and have found all kinds of stuff I had forgotten I had. Thankfully nothing gross, and everything has been edible so far.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #14 on Jan 28, 2013, 12:13pm »

I found a little container of black-eyes peas last night and added them to my soup. I don't remember ever making or buying black-eyes peas.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #15 on Jan 28, 2013, 2:21pm »

Are those common in France? Is it mostly people from the French Antilles who eat them, there?

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #16 on Jan 28, 2013, 3:27pm »

No, they are not common. The name is cornille here and they come from Africa.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #17 on Jan 28, 2013, 3:39pm »

I defrosted my 15 cu. ft chest freezer yesterday, in record time. I got everything I could out of it and into two picnic ice shests as well as intio the upper freezer compartment of the fridge.

THen I put two large pots of very hot water down in the chest freeezer, and closed the lid for 30 minutes.

The ice buildup wasn't so bad this thime, so it didn't take long to sop up the meltwater with a couple of old bath towels. I cleaned the inner drain hole with cotton at the end of tongs.

The most challenging part, as always, was putting the complex compartment separators back in the correct position.

Although we gave away a few containers of soup and bread rolls to out housekeeper and daughter, we gained a great gaping space within the freezer. I also discovered a partial bag of Spinach and Mozzarella Ravioli. Oh, boy.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #18 on Jan 28, 2013, 4:45pm »

Reading through a number of these posts I kept hollering "Where the heck is your steamer'!!
We have a really cheap steamer - like a kettle but with a pointed nose. It sells on a specialized TV channels just for marketing all sorts of items......You know, the one that says "BUT that's not all!"
These steamers defrost an entire freezer in 20min.

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #19 on Jan 28, 2013, 5:43pm »

You Africans are much more advanced than the rest of the world!

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Re: The back of the freezer
« Reply #20 on Jan 29, 2013, 11:56am »

Ha Ha! But that's not all! The nifty little thing cleans everything from the kitchen to the bathroom just by blowing hot steam on the surfaces. We don't get much in the way of bio-degradable cleaning products, so contaminate the water system every time we scrub down the sink or bath. This little gizmo certainly is doing it's bit for the enviroment

Was wondering why the guy in the commercial is speaking with an American accent.....

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