Thread by @ElegantSavant, There is no Nigerian soup or stew that when frozen and defrosted [...]

There is no Nigerian soup or stew that when frozen and defrosted properly before heating tastes stale! If it’s tasting stale, the problem is YOU! YOU do not know how to handle food.

You don’t put hot or even warm food in the freezer.
You do not defrost food by dumping frozen food into a pot and boiling the bejesus out of it.
You do not warm everything in bulk, scoop what you want, re-freeze & repeat multiple times.

Y’all don’t know shit about handling food.

I have Oha soup in my freezer that I cooked 2 months ago! I took a bowl out yesterday, tastes like the first day I made it.
Imagine Nigerian men wanting to say that freezer technology is flawed in order to justify their entitled nonsense.

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Buy proper set of storage bowls (preferably glass), keep food you’ll eat within 24hrs in the fridge in larger bowl if you’re a family, move smaller portion size bowls to the freezer for longer term storage.
It’ll also help you plan better cos you can see how much you have left.

Take a bowl out, see 4 more and you have 4 people in your house, you know it’s time. If you live alone, every bowl is same as the day you cooked it, just frozen in time.

You do not start defrosting frozen food 30 mins before you want to eat. Lol.
If you want to eat soup in the evening, move that bowl from the freezer to the fridge the night before. It’ll defrost safely in controlled temperature. You’ll only need to heat, not re-cook the food.

The Prada (this is what autocorrect changed “ofada” to and since it is designer...) stew in my freezer will probably still be there by the end of the year. I have frozen ramen and pho broth from months ago, not about to make a small batch of something that takes 9 hours to cook.

Every week I have to remind grown folks with access to the internet and dictionaries that words have meaning.

I recently upgraded my glass bowls to these because it comes with a marker so you can not only label your food, you can write down the date you cooked it to track it.
Also has measurements for those measuring their food and can go from freezer to oven.

If I had a way to shop for (some of) y’all I would, but shipping stuff to Nigeria is headache. They’re not even expensive, but it’s heaven Nigerian customs s the Antichrist.

Are you really allergic to fish/seafood or do you get sick because of poor handling?

(it may just be food poisoning)

There are glass bowls on amazon.
Compare the price to plastic.

Refrigerating food & freezing food is not the same thing. Someone has just said he doesn’t freeze his soups, it’s no wonder it doesn’t take the same. This is not true. It will go stale, go bad (Yes, there’s a difference between stale & bad), even grow mound at rot in the fridge!

Refrigerator is to keep food cool/cold, it’s not for long storage. Especially in a country like Nigeria with epileptic electricity, almost half the time your food is temp that’s optimum breeding ground for bacteria.

Mothers of young kids who have a thermometer at home can try this out. Place your thermometer in the fridge and document it’s temp at various times- when there’s constant light and when there’s been no light for some hours.

40F and 140F is 4-60 centigrade. What’s your temp?

Packing your fridge tight will also affect the temp, the cool air needs to be able to circulate. This is why you’re eating stale tasting and dangerous food, not because fridge or freezer spoils food.

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