Freezing Leftovers

When you can’t finish a meal, and know you won’t eat it in the next few days, freezing leftovers can be a great option to save your food for a future date. You can freeze food in a number of different materials, but storing food in aluminum foil proves best for a few reasons. Aluminum helps to maintain the smell and flavor of the food very well. It sort of traps all of the aromatic compounds within the container.

Other methods like plastic freezer bags may allow some of the flavor to reduce over time, leading to a much less exciting meal when you eventually eat it. So next time you have some leftovers to save for later, be sure to whip out the trusty aluminum foil. You’ll thank yourself in the future when you take the food out, reheat it, and can hardly tell that it’d been stored.