# You can freeze that? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038 "2005-02-02T20:44:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/41 "2005-02-04T03:34:46Z")
> [@WVmom](#): > > My husband claims that you can freeze whole apples to preserve them, but I would think they would get mushy. Does anyone know? Would it help if the apples were unripe before they were frozen? I froze a sliced apple when I was a kid. The apple was grainy to start with and it came out very smooth - almost like an apple sorbet. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/42 "2005-02-04T03:41:07Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > I froze a sliced apple when I was a kid. The apple was grainy to start with and it came out very smooth - almost like an apple sorbet. OOPS! That was **Zyada**. We really need a second computer here. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/43 "2005-02-05T20:20:47Z")
Since frozen bananas were mentioned above, I should mention yet another way to have them. In the store last night, I ran across some banana-on-a-stick things, covered with chocolate and coconut. They’re pretty tasty, and would be really easy to make at home. One of these days I’m going to have to get some bananas. Mmmm! ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/44 "2005-02-06T02:17:19Z")
And then you could open a frozen banana stand? 😃 re: freezing wine, if your problem is it doesn’t freeze solid for cooking, what you can do is reduce the wine by 1/2 in a saucepan and then freeze. Most of the alcohol will boil off so the freezing temp is raised and most sauces call for reduced wine in the 1st place so you also save some time. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/45 "2005-02-06T03:14:21Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > And then you could open a frozen banana stand? 😃 Of course! With all sorts of flavours! Skewered strawberries! Kumquat kabobs! Lanced lemons! Drilled durian!\* Then when that’s a success: Profit! - That last one was Zyada’s. She insisted. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/46 "2005-02-06T05:05:04Z")
[QUOTE=CartooniverseI gotta tell ya **Ginger** , I’ve found that Lactaid Milk will not freeze well at all. It separates slightly when freezing, and if allowed to thaw and be shaken in the carton, it is distinctly funky. Cheese also doesn’t tolerate freezing well- but then, I am referring to harder cheeses. Shredded cheddar, for example, is a disaster frozen. It may well be that softer, more…mouldy cheeses do very well frozen solid. [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t know about Lactaid, I’ve never used it. It’s odd that your cheese goes all funky in the freezer. We keep our shredded cheese in the freezer and only take out as much as we need each time. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/47 "2005-02-06T05:07:00Z")
> [@rjk](#): > > Of course! With all sorts of flavours! Skewered strawberries! Kumquat kabobs! Lanced lemons! Drilled durian!\* > > Then when that’s a success: Profit! > > - That last one was Zyada’s. She insisted. :rolleyes: Bob, dude, you really gotta change your location. Also, I am a coding dink. Sorry bout that. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/48 "2005-02-06T20:59:50Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > Bob, dude, you really gotta change your location. > > Also, I am a coding dink. Sorry bout that. Location changed. Guess who suggested the new one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/49 "2005-02-06T23:22:59Z")
> [@GingerOfTheNorth](#): > > I wouldn’t know about Lactaid, I’ve never used it. > > It’s odd that your cheese goes all funky in the freezer. We keep our shredded cheese in the freezer and only take out as much as we need each time. Shredded is fine. Buying, say, a big block of pepper jack, sawing it in half, and putting one half in the freezer for later…not so much. When you bring it out and try to slice it the consistency is similar to hard feta. Tastes fine, slices for shit. I’ve since read that it works better if you slice then freeze, but I haven’t gotten around to trying that yet. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/50 "2005-02-07T00:08:00Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > And then you could open a frozen banana stand? 😃 I tried to open up a frozen banana stand once. Had to use a crowbar and a Pepsi bottle filled with warm urine. What?? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/51 "2005-02-07T00:09:52Z")
What **Chique** said. A block is a disaster when thawed. Shredded…hmm. I gotta believe shredded would do fine, **Ginger** , since it’s already in small bits and pieces. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038/52 "2005-02-07T00:34:28Z")
> [@Beadalin](#): > > I discovered, to my vast disappointment, that you can’t freeze fresh, homegrown tomatoes for later use in sauces and chili, etc. It turns them bitter (much like me, when I tried it. All that effort!). What kind of tomatoes were you freezing? If cherry tomatoes, they can be washed and frozen in a single layer on a cookie sheet, the same way you freeze berries. They work just fine. If larger tomatoes, I’ve certainly done it, in the process I learned from my mother. Essentially you prep the tomatoes exactly the same way you would if you were canning them. Only the last step is you pour into containers to go into the freezer rather than following through on the canning, which is much easier than the canning itself. And less steamy too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-can-freeze-that/288038.md?page=2)