Hi EFers
I bought some blocks of raclette cheese and forgot about them. Now I'd like to freeze them to preserve, but instead of freezing the entire blocks I want to freeze it in slices. Any advice as to how this can be done with the least amount of freezer burn possible?
If you'd not recommend freezing, do you have a different storage method?
Thanks.
put each slice into a plastic bag
I usually wrap each slice tightly in cling film and then put the lot into a sealed freezer bag. Then I can take them out individually if I like but they take up less room than separate bags.
I use the stomach storage method..seems to store the masses of cheese all winter long
We freeze slices all the time, usually 4-6 slices in one "block" instead of individually. Wrap tightly in clingfilm and then wrap that in foil. If you wrap with the shiny side in, then you can write on the dull side with a marker so you know what the food is later.
Stomach storage with 4kg cheese...
There's a non-shiny/dull side on aluminium foil? Which brand do you use, mine's all shiny.
If you look at a roll of aluminum foil you'll see that one side is always shinier than the other. It's usually the outside of the roll which is shiny and the inside is dull. Mine is from COOP.
Like this:
We don't slice our raclette cheese, we grate it like roesti instead as that makes it much easier to use the amount of cheese the individual prefers.
To freeze the grated cheese we use ordinary zippable plastic bags that are laid flat in the freezer with the cheese loosely-packed and no more than perhaps 1.5-2cm thick. If we manage to remember we shake the bags once they're half-frozen, again laying them flat. That enables you to break off any portion if you don't need to thaw up the full contents.