Pluggers by Rick McKee for November 02, 2023

What the heck is freezer burn? And is there oven freeze?

Ha. As if we is leaves any foods uneaten.

Masking tape label with name and date works for me ;-)

Calves Liver from the Paleozoic Era…

OUR freezer is crammed full haphazardly like Fibber McGee’s closet. It is advised to wear steel-toe safety shoes!

If you’ll spend twenty minutes carefully wrapping a package of food for your freezer, but won’t spend an extra minute putting a label on it, you might be a plugger.

That’s a science experiment frozen in time.

Thaw it out. Maybe cook it. Add water if necessary. Sniff it.

Then try it, you might like it. … Or just throw it out.

We call it “Freezer roulette”, although I’m getting better at labeling. I found some labels that will hold in the freezer, but are easy to peel off.

It’s a shame freezers [and refrigerators] don’t come with rotating shelves because it seems impossible for anyone [with one possible exception] to see beyond the top/front layer.

In earlier times, less food was wasted because it had to be removed to defrost the freezer and older packages could more easily be identified and used. Possibly we should treat our freezers and refrigerators like smoke detectors - empty and clean them once a year. [In the US, it is recommended that we change the batteries in all our smoke detectors at the same time (e.g., on New Years Day) to ensure they are all functioning properly and so we don’t have to change them individually when they start beeping-usually around 3 am.]

I think it’s meatcake.

Like a grab-bag item, unlabeled frozen foods are a surprise when thawed and opened. Cook what you got and enjoy. Bon Appetite.

When my grandmother passed. We cleaned out her freezer, there were containers of unidentifiable stuff. Some of which had been in there since Nixon was in office.

That taught me to label anything with why it is and the date it was frozen.

I’m guessing economy sized corned beef hash.

We bought a new freezer a while back, put my label printer & vac-seal machine to good use. No more mystery dinners.

my mother used to have those. She’d never mark stuff she kept in the freezer (and home freezers were a big deal when I was a kid)

I thaw that coming…

My friend opened her freezer and it was so full of foil-wrapped leftovers that some immediately fell out. She swore she knew what was in each one. I didn’t believe her. I think it was a holdover from the days when she was literally a starving actress in Hollywood.