Freezing odd items ?

Froze ( is that a word?) some egg yolks after making 6 pavlovas. Not good !!

When butter is reduced if you buy two, I freeze one of them.

Not "odd" but we bulk make mashed potato and freeze in in suitable portions. Only one nasty starchy pot to wash, just take it out of the freezer, leave to defrost and either put in a dish in the oven (if you are using it to cook other things) or heat in microwave.

Egg whites freeze fine and can then be made into meringues.

I froze my dear old teddy bear who had a bit of woodworm in his head (sawdust stuffing). I put him in a plastic bag and left him in for a weekend while we were away. No sign of the woodworm spreading.

I freeze buttercream icing if I have made too much for one cake. It invariably gets eaten, frozen. Absolutely delicious!

chocolate buttercream, that is.

Woodworm ? How on earth??!!!!

I freeze avocados.

Then use them to make guacamole :-)

Sawdust for stuffing grannylyn. Mine's got that. And it's leaking.

I freeze the remainder of tinned food, such as baked beans, tomatoes, kidney beans etc., if I open a large tin and don't use it all. Got sick of paying a premium for small tins, or finding half used tins in the fridge going mouldy, so thought I'd give it a try and it worked a treat. I just decant what's left into a plastic container.
When I've bought tins of water chestnuts and bamboo shoots for Chinese stir fries I've frozen half of each tin for next time.
And because DH and I can't agree on those pots of fresh pasta sauce (I like tomato and mascarpone and he likes tomato, basil and olive), I buy both, have half of each and freeze the other halves for next time.

Not a good idea to put opened tins of food in the fridge especially if its fruit or tomatoes when exposed to the air the tin can start to dissolve into the food and apart from it acquiring a tinny taste it isn't good for you..

Once jars are open I freeze the contents. Preserved lemons for tagine so is ok in the freezer. I was given a jar of truffles ( the fungi) at Christmas . I've never used truffles so if anyone can tell me what to do with the remainders when I start to use them I'd be most grateful.

When we went to Italy every year I would bring home a LARGE piece of Parmesan and cut it into reasonable sizes and freeze them till I needed them. I freeze left over bits if cheese for making pasta with forgotten cheese. In other words all the odd bits you've got left over.

This has been a very interesting thread. I have never thought to do any of these things. Especially with cheese. Is the frozen cheese then defrosted before eating or is it only useful for grating, or in dishes? A really useful tip. Thanks. I didn't know about not leaving an opened tin of, say, baked beans in the frig either.

Tinned stuff can be kept in the fridge for a couple of days, but NOT in the original tin, decant into something else and cover well.

Oh dear - I just eat things up! Certainly chocolate and cheese! When I was on Slimming World I did used to freeze grated cheese in 2 oz portions (the amount I was allowed) so that I wasn't tempted to just cut and come again each time I opened the fridge!
Although it is best to decant from tins for the fridge, I think many of today's tins have a lining of some kind, which must help!

Hairy Bikers' Christmas Pudding Vodka.

Serve straight from the freezer!

I freeze fresh herbs in their packets and then scrunch up the leafy ones such as coriander and basil. They break into tiny pieces and it saves the faff of chopping them.

I buy a chunk of Parmesan cheese, grate it in my food processor then freeze it. It defrosts almost instantly when you sprinkle it on a meal.

Another thing I do is peel root ginger and freeze it. It's then easily grated from frozen when required.

I also save the water from steamed veg (apart from potatoes) and freeze it to use later as stock in soups etc.

I freeze left over fish bones and prawn shells and anything else which honks, until the refuse is collected - saves stinking the bin out for a week - or in my case two weeks.

I once froze a skirt when I accidentally sat on some chewing gum on a bus it was so easy to chip off the offending mess and skirt was good as new

Freezing a kohl eye pencil for about an hour can stop the kohl breaking when sharpened.

Oh wow, there are so many helpful ideas here, thank you everyone! I freeze cakes quite a bit. My christmas cake recipe is for an 8" cake and we are only 2 now. So I cut what was left into 3 and we have just about used it all up - I think, must go and look!