Packaged Frozen Food Store on freezer door
STORING FROZEN FOOD
shelf or in the freezer. If you plan to store it for a long
time, re-wrap it with aluminum foil or plastic wrap.
Frozen Me&s* .The following hints will help
keep the quality in your frozen meats:
1. Freeze meat while fresh and in top condition.
2. Use only recommended wrapping materials.
3. Prepare the meat for freezing before wrap-
ping it. Trim off excess fat and remove bones
when practical. Meat should not be salted
because salt shortens freezer life.
4. Wrap tightly, pressing out as much air as
possible.
The freezer section is designed for storage of com-
5. Label and date it.
mercially frozen foods and for freezing foods at 6. Refreezing thawed meat is not recommended.
home.
Frozen Soups, Juicer .Store on freezer door
shelf or in the freezer.
STORAGE CHART FOR FROZEN FOOD
Packaglng -The secret of successful freezing is Storage times given in this chart are only a
in the packaging. The wrap You use must be air. guide. For best use of freezer space. keep fro-
moisture and vapor proof. The way You close and zen foods for short times. Use, then replace as
seal the package must not allow air, moisture or needed.
vapors in or out. Bread .......................... 2months
Rigid polyethylene [plastic) containers with tight-
Cooked Dlrheo ............... 2-3 months
fitting lids, straight-sided canning/freezing jars,
Flsh and Seatoodr
heavy-duty aluminum foil, plastic-coated paper and .........................
Fre8h 6 months
non-permeable plastic wraps [such as Saran] are Commercially Frozen ...... l-3 months
recommended. Note: Heat-sealed boiling bags are ........................... 6 months
Fruits
easy to use and can be used by themselves or as
Ice Cream ....................... 1 month
carton liners. Concentrated Juice .......... 4-6 months
Meats
IMPORTANT: Do not expect your treezer to qulck- Bacon ................ Less than 1 month
freeze any large quantity of toad. leave enough Pork rwrts, chops .......... 3.4 months
space tor air to clroulate around packages. Be Sausage .................... l-2 months
caretul to leave enough room at the front so the Beet, veal, lamb roasts ....... 6 months
door can close tightly. Ground meat ............... . l-2 months
Poultry ..................... 3-4 months
Ice Cream...Store rn the freezer. Once the pack- Vegetables .................... 6 months
age is opened, place a piece of aluminum foil or
waxed paper smoothly against the ice cream sur- ?Courtesy of National Livestock and Meat Board and
face. This will prevent ice crystals from forming. U S.D.A.
Vacation and moving care
the ice maker at least a day ahead. When the last
Short vacations. . .
load of ice drops, turn off the ice maker.
No need to shut off the refrigerator if you WIII be
Unplug the refrigerator and clean it...rinse well
away for less than four weeks. Use up perishables;
and dry Tape rubber or wood blocks to both doors
freeze other items. If Your refrigerator is equipped
. ..keeping them open far enough for air to get in.
with an automatic ice maker, 1) turn it off; 2) shut off
This will keep odor and mold from building up.
the water supply to the ice maker; 3) empty the ice
bin.
WARNING: Tape blocks out of a child?s
reach...do not allow children near
Long vacations. . .
the retrlgerator when the doors are
Remove all the food if you are gorng for a month
blocked open. They may become
01 more. If your refrigerator is equipped with an InJured or trapped.
automatic ice maker, turn off the water supply to
To restart refrigerator, see ?Using Your Refrrgerator.?
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