How to Make Your Own Frozen Dinners
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
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Creating your own TV dinners is easy and economical. These guidelines will help you get started.
Step 1: Know which foods freeze well
Know which cooked foods freeze well. Rice, pasta, and bean dishes; stews; roasted, baked, or broiled meat and poultry; and vegetables all reheat nicely. Cooked fish can be frozen, but defrosting and reheating may affect the texture. Don't freeze fried foods, which can turn rancid when warmed up.
Tip
If you're preparing pasta, rice, or vegetables specifically for frozen dinners, undercook them a bit.
Step 2: Use the proper container
Use the proper container. If you plan to microwave the meal, arrange the leftovers on a sturdy paper plate or microwaveable dish. For oven heating, use an aluminum pie plate. Don't mound food higher than an inch and a half or it won't reheat evenly.
Tip
If your vegetables are well-cooked, save them for soup and use frozen veggies topped with a pat of butter instead.
Step 3: Keep food moist
Spoon a little sauce, gravy, oil, or butter on the food to help prevent freezer burn and keep it moist. If you're using a sectioned plate, add a dessert! Sliced cake, cupcakes, and cookies freeze and defrost well.
Step 4: Let food cool
Let food cool before covering the plate with freezer-safe plastic wrap, forcing out as much air as possible. Then wrap it tightly with a couple of layers of heavy-duty aluminum foil, sealing the edges tightly.
Step 5: Label
Label the meal with the contents and date before putting it in the freezer, where it will stay good up to four months.
Step 6: Reheat
To reheat, remove the wrapping. If using a microwave, cover with a plastic dome or paper towels, with a corner turned back to allow steam to be released. Nuke on defrost for about eight minutes, and then on high for three to five. If reheating in the oven, cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, then uncover and bake another 10 minutes.
Step 7: Enjoy
Enjoy your homemade TV dinner! And keep experimenting until you have a few go-to frozen meals down to a science.
Did You Know?
Frozen meals were first sold to consumers in 1949 under the One-Eyed Eskimo label, and were only sold in the Pittsburgh area. - Навчання та стиль
10 years ago and still so relevant. I just got punched with nostalgia!
You can also just get an inexpensive vacuum bag sealing system and that way you can either poke a hole in the bag and reheat in the microwave or place to bag in a pot of boiling water (without poking hole). Been doing that for 25 years.
JeevesReturns dayummm you just killed the entire purpose of this video. 👌👍
For freezing portions of spag bol sauce and stew etc just get some silicone bun trays avaiable from amazon and when frozen the portions can be just turned out and put in bags in freezer.
Thank you, its helpful. But mine biggest problem is what to cook :D
believe it or not people, some of do need frozen food constantly. This will keep us staying healthy. Also, frozen food from grocery shop are nasty anyways.
Is all that plastic and foil wrapping necessary? Seems like the cost will end up higher than store-bought frozen meals. If the container is air-tight, what does all the extra wrapping accomplish?
So you reheat a big tray of lasagna just to have one slice?
Before eating make it in a big tray then slice them
@@batuhanozerr1736 what I do is make a lasagne or buy one already made...put in freezer for 3 hrs until not fully frozen...take out cut into about 8 individual slices and then I package each slice up....back into freeezer....only take out as required
@dgendgen No, 31 people probably have families and are trying to save time and money. I think it's a wonderful idea. It's a lot better to eat a re-heated, healthy, home-cooked meal than eating fast food or T.V. dinners. You can put whatever you want in it, it's a great idea, especially for people who are trying to eat a healthy diet. You can control portions, fat content, calories, etc. a lot easier. Just my thoughts.
Very well done video.
That’s mad work I’m gonna just keep buying frozen dinners
Thanks
this will be very tasty.
Love this, has helped me out. I tried making frozen dinners before but it turned awful, this guide actually does good! My hubby can't cook, and I love to make sure he is fed wonderfully anytime I am gone since he can't always come with, this is a perfect alternative.
I don't know about microwaving the cookie for what did he saying 15 minutes unless you like rubberie cookies ? someone with common sense would think maybe 30 seconds to unthaw it. hell I'd eat the cookie frozen put a scope of ice cream on it and another cookie on top and it'll be like a ice cream sandwich...!
wish you had a video on putting cook food in a vacuum chamber.
when i make homemade tv dinners i put them on something called a "plate".
Hey
One-Eyed Eskimo Reheatable Dinners. Sounds appetizing.
Prepare and put food in glass containers. Don't EVER microwave plastic.
-Bryan Marcel
31 people can properly spell straight.
the lasagna looks nasty :P
ewww.
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lol 31 people are either fat or homeless.... 2 people are thinking strait.... im one of those people