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Page THE HERAIJ OUTLOOK Saturday March 1MB POINTERS POLLY FISHER How to freeze food without ruining it DEAR POLLY Please what am I doing wrong Every item out of my new freezer is filled with ice The foods are in freezer bags MARY DEAR MARY I inspect that youre packing the food with too much moisture or too much air If youre freezing vegetables blot them dry with paper towels after blanching them Put them in the bags then press out as much air as possible so the bag Is molded around he food One good way of doing this is to in sert a straw in one corner of the bag zip the bag closed up to the straw suck out as much air as possible through the straw then quickly re- move the straw and complete the bags seal Yon could also use a vacu um meal sealer an appliance that sucks the air and then seals plastic bags with beat Meats breads and all other foods must also be packed with as little air as possible Sometimes this is easier to do by wrapping in plastic freezer wrap or heavyduty oil rather than in plastic bags Another possible cause of ice crys tals In the food packages is repeated thawing and freezing of the food or holding the food at an incorrect tem perature Use a freezer thermometer to check that your freeze- is holding at a constant temperature of de grees or less Avoid opening the freez er door more often than necessary to prevent frequent warming of the freezer by room air If theres a power failure leave the freezer closed and hopefully well packed since a full freezer will keep the food frozen longer than a half- empty one or fill the empty spaces with purchased dry ice if the power failure promises to be a long one Over time some ice crystal forma tion is inevitable with bornefrozen foods but eliminating as much excess moisture and air as possible will min imize this and keep your food in good condition longer Careful preparation techniques packing and proper wrap ping and sealing of food packages are the keys to success POLLY DEAR POLLY We are about to buy a new stove and I cant decide whether to buy a selfcleaning range or not Doesnt the self cleaning fea ture waste a lot of electricity HTN DEAR HTN A few years ago a consumer testing organization re ported that selfcleaning ovens did not use significantly more electricity than manualclean ovens even when selfclean feature was used regu larly This is because selfcleaning ovens were better insulated than the regular ones making them more effi cient everyday users of electricity Although this report is a few years old I assume todays selfcleaning ov ens are if anything even more effi cient and wellInsulated You can slightly reduce tbe energy needed for the selfcleaning cycle by using it when the oven is still hot from baking something it will require slightly less energy to beat to the cleaning tem perature If It has a bead start Of course selfcleaning ovens are more expensive to buy I personally feel the added convenience and being able to avoid baying and using dan gerous chemical oven 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