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jmcquown[_2_]

On 12/6/2015 10:43 AM, Janet B wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Dec 2015 01:08:47 -0600, Alan Holbrook >
> wrote:
>
>> wrote in
>> :
>>
>>>
>>> My biggest item is soup. It is more economical to make very large
>>> amounts then freeze in single portions. (I use the 1litre pots of
>>> yogurt so I wash the containers and use them for soup as they stack
>>> handily) I keep a variety of soups and more often than not, that's my
>>> lunch.
>>
>> How do you handle frost? Whenever I freeze a basically liquid thing like
>> soup, ice crystals form almost immediately. Chunks of ice form eventually
>> in other things I freeze as well, it just takes a little longer. If I
>> can't get it into a vacuum bag, I hesitate to freeze it.
>
> I lightly press a doubled piece of plastic wrap on the surface of
> whatever I am freezing. Works like a charm.
> Janet US
>
Yup! Plastic wrap on the surface of an opened carton of ice cream keeps
frost from building up, too.

Jill