How to Freeze Food for Storage

Video Transcript

"Hello Christi Ferretti with Expert Village. I wanna give you a few tips today about storing things in your freezer. Were gonna use meat as an example today but of course you can freeze a lot of different items. When freezing things you want to consider the packaging that it is already in for example for the meats its in a thin plastic wrap in a Styrofoam tray. You wanna keep these things in the tray or the Styrofoam packaging from the grocery store and then do a little extra guardage by putting it in a Ziploc bag or wrapping it in a heavy duty aluminum foil. Try to use a commercial heavy grade foil that will keep it from losing texture and its flavor. you can do this for up to two months in your freezer at home. you also want to use the first in first out method with your freezer you wanna make sure you take out the older items and put the newer ones in the back so that your suing the things you put in there first before the newer items. Again you have two months so you have to keep track of it. Now oftentimes when you put things in the freezer they kinda become mystery meat so make sure that you get some tape and use a permanent marker and label and date the item with what it is and when you put it in. That way you can ensure you keep track of that two month mark and that you get the best freshness and the best flavor out of your meat or any other item you put in the freezer."