Knowing Foods That Should Not Be Frozen

Care With Frozen Foods

Most of the foods can be frozen, however there are some whose freezing is not recommended for several reasons:

* Food defrosted : should not freeze again as they lose flavor and nutrients and there is a risk of doubling the stage wet of the product favoring formation and bacteria. ploriferación; however, you can refreeze a product the first time had frozen raw and the second time it has been cooked (meat, for example).


* Rice: not worth freezing rice, as it turns to mush when thawed.


* Cream : to the defrost will be lumpy and watery.


* Spices: their flavor is altered by freezing , it becomes stronger and more bitter, so it is not recommended to freeze dishes that have been seasoned , eg with cloves, garlic ,pepper, rosemary, basil, oregano or nutmeg, because their flavor will have deteriorated.

* Fruits: lose texture and flavor, although you can work around this by wrapping effect in sugar or embedding them in syrup.


* Apple and quince can be frozen without problems if they are subjected to few minutes before cooking .


* Banana: in the freezer gets black, unless we become mashed. The smaller fruits such as blackberries, raspberries or small strawberries can be frozen without pretreatment.


* Raw vegetables : This food group , only peppers and onions allow freeze without problem. Other vegetables that containing large amount of water lost some texture and flavor. Perhaps they can be use to make soup, and tomato sauce, but no longer serve for salad or for any solid dish .


* Eggs : These are foods that should not be frozen because when they whole freezing the yolk explodes and the shell breaks .Egg white, separated from the rest of the egg freezes well . Eggs cooked well not endure freezing, egg whitebecomes very hard.


* Milk : it can jell and decompose , even if it is freezing skim milk does not usually cause problems.


* Mayonnaise : decomposes into a solid mass tasteless.


* Pasta : loses its texture and becomes strangely spongy change the taste . Instead  pasta frozen well when is part of lasagne.


* Cakes and pies : these foods crack and lose consistency , aroma and flavor.


* Potatoes:  raw turn dark , cooked lose their texture, and fries are somewhat leathery . The only way  that these foods are not bad when frozen is to turn them in mashed potatoes.


* Cheese and other dairy : not all, but some types of cheese crumble when frozen . When this happens serve as grated cheese but not to take sliced.


* Other foods: like dairy cream, yogurt and cottae cheese do not  have a good freeze. Sometimes decompose and lose texture change their real flavor. However Butter can be frozen without any problem.


* Fresh vegetables : ice crystals soften these foods, making them lose their structure and flavor. But that can be frozen cooked or simply bleached or scalded by boiling water between two to five minutes.