Help, am I poisioning myself

You can't say things like that! We're all dooooooooomed, I tell you.

Si

Well, perhaps I'm immortal.

That'll teach you all :-)

Mary

"Mary Fisher" wrote in news:4173e922$0$2651$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:

If he can do that he's a better man than me

mike

OK, I could have said it better, viz:

Hey! Don't attempt to freeze it while it's still warm!

Mary :-)

"Brian Sharrock" wrote in news:v7Kcd.16$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net:

Bruddy herr, I never thought of that.

Do you cook at at all, or get it all cooked?

I buy fairly large portions of stirfry or mince, specially when there's a bogof, and store them in the smaller transparent supermarket bags; I just nick a handful occasionally - I think you could also use tthem for layering, they're nice and flat before use.

Also how about baking parchment?

Anything's better than paying Lakeland prices

mike

Quite possibly. I've had a couple of car accidents, only had salmonella from mis-cooked chicken once. I'd prefer to avoid both.

Heating is an energy cost. Stick it in the fridge for a couple of days, and you actually recover the heat used to freeze it.

er - yes, that's why I said leave it on the counter instead of putting it in the oven.

House heating.

A kilo of water will absorb about a third or two thirds (I can't remember which, one is boiling and one is freezing) of a KWh when melting. Stick it in the fridge, and the fridge works a bit less hard for a couple of days. Stick it on the counter, (assuming you're heating this time of year) and it'll cost you a substantial fraction of a pence to defrost it.

Oh.

You don't need the house heating on to thaw frozen stuff. Ours hasn't come on yet.

Hmm. A bit being?

Well, if we were heating yes, it could cost, ooh, must be easily the best part of something very small... on the other hand, the humanity hereabouts gives out more than enough heat to thaw frozen stuff. And keep the thermostat from coming into play :-)

Mary

Oh-oh. I get anxious when I see someone owning up to being IMMortal..... ;)

You'll be telling us how to install a combi boiler with a recirculating air vent next ;)

Andrew

Ian Stirling wrote in news:41740f98$0$48024$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net:

That's brilliant!

I only suggested defrosting in the fridge as a safe way to do it; the thought that I can save a groat makes me skinflint tendency rejoice

mike

"Mary Fisher" wrote | Even less aggressively, leave the frozen whatever on a plate | on the kitchen counter. It will thaw. No energy cost.

Considerable energy cost in driving to the chinese takeaway on christmas day because the cat got up at 4 am and helped itself to the turkey, as neighbours once found out.

(You and I would probably have just hidden the gnawed bits with an extra chipolata.)

Owain

"Mary Fisher" wrote | > Freeze it as fast as you can after purchase - don't | > let it sit around warm which is when the bacteria | > multiply. | Hey! Don't freeze it while it's still warm!

What about a blast chiller/freezer or, failing that, a good squirt with a CO2 fire-extinguisher[1]

Owain

In message , N. Thornton writes

Once cold, otherwise you could defrost other things in the freezer

However, as someone who eats almost anything and everything, I might not be the best person to reply to the original question

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In message , Brian Sharrock writes

They can fight back sometimes, can't they

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In message , Andrew McKay writes

Maybe so, but on topic

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One year my parents decided to outwit the cat (always risky) and its annual Tom-and-Jerry attempts to scoff the entire Christmas turkey. They hung the cooked bird up on a string in the garage.

Later on (having noticed the missing cat) they went out to check the turkey. To find the cat, inside a locked garage, spread eagled on the side of the carcase several feet above the ground and hanging from its paws with its head already a substantial way inside the bird.

Yeh? Well you'd be wrong, unless you drive like a complete wally that is. You're safer in the car than you are at home.