Freeze your nuts – but not your mushrooms! 28 thrifty, fabulous ways to use your freezer
Freeze your nuts – but not your mushrooms! 28 thrifty, fabulous ways to use your freezer
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Bag up your breadcrumbs and gather your gravy. Here’s how to use your kitchen’s most underrated asset to its greatest potential. Almost all of us have a freezer of some size, and yet so few of us maximise its potential. If you’re like me, it’s sat there filled with nothing more than a bag of peas, a half full sack of oven chips, a tray of ice cubes and some pre-pandemic fish fingers. But it’s always on, always consuming energy.
![[Tim Dowling]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2018/01/30/Tim_Dowling,_R.png?width=75&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
It doesn’t have to be like this – your freezer is an amazing kitchen tool; the long-stay car park of your fridge. Because the freezer has been around for so long, we forget how versatile it can be. “If the freezer had never been developed and it came out like the air fryer did, people would be like, ‘God, this is amazing!’” says Suzanne Mulholland, the bestselling author and batch-cooking expert better known as The Batch Lady.
![[Frozen fruit in a freezer bag]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f87fe307c306ea1850ead4a2e4efb2672612c8a6/0_187_5616_3370/master/5616.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
Mulholland, whose latest book The Batch Lady Rapid Dinners is published on 13 February, likens her freezer to the advent of streaming. “Years ago you would have to wait for the adverts, and then you’d go running out to make a cup of tea,” she says. “Now we watch whatever programmes we want, we pause it, and we come back to it whenever we want. And that is what your freezer is allowing you to do. It’s allowing you that control where you don’t have to cook from scratch when you need to feed everybody, or when you’re hungry. You can cook when you want to cook, at a time that suits you.”.
![[Use your loaf … bread from the freezer is easier to digest.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4613250c1bbddc4e750e1598c7572ef497cfec4a/0_365_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
