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Cooking and freezing

GZA

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Is it bad to cook something (i.e. chicken) and then freeze it, and reheat/cook it later?
 

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No absolutely not. It is bad to thaw something raw (like chicken) and refreeze it. I would slightly undercook anything that's going to reheated later, just to maintain a good finished product. You can prepare and freeze many dishes with excellent results.
 

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No, if that were the case then we wouldn't have the frozen food aisle. Duh.

(sorry, but I couldn't help it)

Just make sure the food cools before you stick it in the freezer.
 
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I freeze stuff all the time, it's fine. The only thing I notice is that the texture of meat and poultry suffers when frozen. I wouldn't freeze an expensive cut.
 

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^ this. But I frequently made casseroles for later in the week, assembled them and froze them, and just re-heated them in the oven later when I was too busy to cook. :yes:
 

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I freeze soup in freezer bags and also pierogi when we make a bazillion of them.

Frozen tofu comes out with a kind of cool texture.
 

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Alright, thank you!

@Marm: The frozen food aisle is full of peculiar things that may have been engineered specifically to be frozen and unfrozen hahaha
 

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I might agree with you, except that I've bought organic vegan frozen food, and Kashi makes frozen food and none of those things were weird or genetically engineered.
 

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Most meats start to lose taste after 3 months of freezing so make sure you keep things dated. Its not a safety issue its a quality issue.
 
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