Tips for freezing fresh food

Follow the tips when you freeze fresh food.
  • Freeze fresh and undamaged food only.
  • Freeze food in portions.
  • Cooked food is more suitable than food that can be eaten raw.
  • Vegetables: Wash, chop up and blanch before freezing.
  • Fruit: Wash, pit and perhaps peel, possibly add sugar or ascorbic acid solution.
  • Food that is suitable for freezing includes baked items, fish and seafood, meat, game, poultry, eggs without shells, cheese, butter and quark, ready meals and leftovers.
  • Food that is unsuitable for freezing includes lettuce, radishes, eggs in shells, grapes, raw apples and pears, yoghurt, sour cream, crème fraîche and mayonnaise.