Ask Mum Now - hints and tips and solutions » frozen food http://www.askmumnow.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:51:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 To quickly thaw frozen food http://www.askmumnow.com/tip-of-the-day/to-quickly-thaw-frozen-food/ http://www.askmumnow.com/tip-of-the-day/to-quickly-thaw-frozen-food/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:46:57 +0000 admin http://www.askmumnow.com/?p=2191 If you have forgotten to take the meat out of the freezer for dinner and want to thaw it out quickly, try putting the well sealed packet of meat in a bowl or sink of cold water.

300-400 gms of meat will thaw in 1-2 hours depending on the room temperature.

You can do this with any frozen food – just make sure the water can’t get into the food product.

Why the cold water treatment works better than sitting on the kitchen bench is a mystery to me.  Anyone got any ideas?

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