12 Freezer Tricks That Fix Why Your Food Tastes Bad

Your frozen food doesn't taste like cardboard because the freezer ruined it — it tastes that way because of what happened to it on the way IN and on the way OUT. I spent fifteen years running the fresh-foods department at a grocery chain, and the reason the peas the store froze taste better than the peas you froze has almost nothing to do with the peas. It's air. Here are twelve free habits that fix it — no gadgets, nothing to buy. Researchers priced the food each of us throws away at about $728 a year per person — closer to $1,500 a year for two of you, and a good share of it went IN fine and came OUT tasting like nothing. Most of that is fixable in the ten minutes after you get home. The ice-cube test that tells you if your freezer is quietly ruining everything What that gray patch really is — and the two-layer wrap that stops it Get it off the foam store tray the same day you buy it Cool it before it goes in (why a warm container costs you) Blanch vegetables first — the 60 seconds most people skip Bacon & fatty foods: the one thing that goes bad while still frozen solid Zero degrees, and stop keeping your favorites in the door Label it by hand, thaw it in the fridge, portion it before it freezes #1: the two hours that decide how everything in there is going to taste Small household, fixed budget — every bag you save is money you don't spend twice. Every figure in this video is attributed to a named public source — full list below. #freezertips #foodwaste #frugalliving #freezerburn #cookingfortwo #savemoney