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Jim Cooley
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 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:00 pm Post subject: Freezing scrambled eggs |
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I want to make a batch of "breakfast burritoes" I can freeze and subsequently pop in the microwave when I need a quick breakfast.
Wondered if anyone has tips for cooking the scrambled eggs to improve their re-heatability.
Just a guess, but I suspect I'll want them on the 'wet' side? |
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DrBiggles
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:43 pm Post subject: Re: Freezing scrambled eggs |
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| Jim Cooley wrote: | I want to make a batch of "breakfast burritoes" I can freeze and subsequently pop in the microwave when I need a quick breakfast.
Wondered if anyone has tips for cooking the scrambled eggs to improve their re-heatability.
Just a guess, but I suspect I'll want them on the 'wet' side? |
If you're making food to eat ahead of time, it's better to do that and just put them in the fridge to reheat later. This would be something that would be eaten within the next week or two. Or, you're making something to heat and eat 3 months from now. In either case, moisture/oxygen content is your worst enemy so cook them a little on the dry side. The problem is that when you freeze something, the moisture crystals form during freezing and break the cell walls. This makes your food suck.
If you have or have access to a "food-saver" machine that removes oxygen from your packaged food, this is a good thing. It will give you more time in the unfrozen and frozen state of things.
That being said, eat your food fresh and only cook a few days ahead of yourself. Just because you can freeze food doesn't mean you should.
xo, Biggles |
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Jim Cooley
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:06 am Post subject: |
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DrBiggles,
Thanks for your thorough, if not prejudicial, reply.
However, it doesn't answer my immediate question:
When cooking scrambled eggs for "breakfast burritoes" to be frozen and then later re-heated by microwave --
Does anyone have any tips? Should I cook them wet or dry?
And yes, DrBiggles, I have a FoodSaver and I'm NOT going to use it for mundane things like breakfast burritoes. StretchTite is the eighth wonder of the world as far as I'm concerned, and I'll leave it at that.
Jim |
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