30 thousand leagues from inside your freezer ..

[Gandahar]

Monsters from the deep.

You know that feeling, you are routing around and hope to find something really really tasty after a few beers and all you end up is with something that you take out, look at and then think,

"What actually is that, and how old is it?"

For instance this -



The bottom looks like sweet, sweet vanilla icecream and mango. But the top looks like potato and bits of broccoli.

I do love my freezer. The things inside it scare me though. When my dear old Aunt died they cleared out her 6 foot long chest freezer and found meat joints in it 20 years old. Mind you, she was brought up just after the war.

Freezer dirty secrets, maybe filled with dirty fast food you could not eat.

[C0ffin D0dger]

I know the feeling and it's not helped by the fact that my missus fails to label a lot of stuff up claiming that she'll remember what it is in future. She doesn't.

Still freezer roulette can make for some interesting dinners.

[Cotty]

C0ffin D0dger said:

Still freezer roulette can make for some interesting dinners.

My mum did that with a home made pie. Veg, gravy, mashed potato, brought the pie to the table and promptly cut into an apple pie.

[AndrewEH1]

Cotty said:

My mum did that with a home made pie. Veg, gravy, mashed potato, brought the pie to the table and promptly cut into an apple pie.

I'll send you the bill for my new keyboard, I'm getting some fairly odd looks in the office.

[SVX]

Cotty said:

My mum did that with a home made pie. Veg, gravy, mashed potato, brought the pie to the table and promptly cut into an apple pie.

Cotty, did you eat it anyway? Freezer roulette, I approve... this thread could get interesting.

[Cotty]

I don’t remember it was 30 years ago. The other thing I remember her making was cherry surprise. The surprise was she forgot to take the stones out before putting the cherries in the food processer. It was a little crunchy.

[Type R Tom]

Mum and Dad have 3 freezers, they basically hover up meat with a reduced label on it and in it goes. Finally a couple of weeks ago they finally got around do doing an audit and discovered over 100 different joints, steaks, birds, chops etc. They aren't buying much not until they get through it, I don't think the insurance company would have believed them if they had to claim for over a grands worth of meat if the power went for a long time.

[geeks]

We have had a similar thread in the past. I refuse to label anything in our freezer for this very reason, random freezer meals are great!

We once had stewed apple and rice for dinner

[Eddw86]

Don't they find the meat tastes funny or loses it's texture after too long?

I defrosted a turkey joint recently, 5 months in freezer I think, and the texture was very different to usual and it wasn't particularly nice.

Put me off leaving meat for too long.

[geeks]

Eddw86 said:

Don't they find the meat tastes funny or loses it's texture after too long?

I defrosted a turkey joint recently, 5 months in freezer I think, and the texture was very different to usual and it wasn't particularly nice.

Put me off leaving meat for too long.

Ah the big "It's a freezer, not a time machine!" Debate.

Some stuff keeps better than others, mince beef for example lasts for ages and still tastes fine.

Poultry not so much but it is safe and fine to eat just loses a little something!

[karona]

Soup. 'Er indoors makes loads of it and freezes it in batches. She ran out of foil dishes to put it in, so used plastic freezer bags. We currently have about twenty litres of bagged soup frozen around the bars of the freezer shelves with a death-grip which will never be released until the whole freezer is defrosted. I think it's mango and butternut squash, she doesn't do labels either.

[Murph7355]

Cotty said:

My mum did that with a home made pie. Veg, gravy, mashed potato, brought the pie to the table and promptly cut into an apple pie.

I get the job of food tester when we have a freezer clear out as the other half's a vegetarian. It can be pleasantly surprising when you get something nice out...but also a bit disappointing when you're all geared up for a curry only to find a pot full of stewed rhubarb.

karona said:

... I think it's mango and butternut squash...

Some things might be better off left frozen.

[bomb]

[quote=karona] Soup...........litres of bagged soup frozen around the bars of the freezer shelves with a death-grip which will never be released quote]

I feel your pain ! Those bags get a life of their own once the freezer door gets closed. Buggers.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

When my gran died in 1990, we found a packet of sugar or something similar at the back of her cupboard that had a competition on it to win a new Ford Anglia!