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brooklyn1

> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:51:59 -0500, wrote:
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>>What, if any, are the rproblems with re-freezing food, or should it be
>>done at
>>all? The thing I'm most interested in would be this: I make a batch of
>>meatballs
>>and put them in the freezer. I take a few out and put them in fresh tomato
>>sauce
>>for a meal or two. There's still a couple left and I want to freeze the
>>sauce
>>along with the meatballs (again for the meatballs.) Problems? Thanks.
>
> Thanks. I should have been a little more specific. The meatballs were
> already
> cooked when I first froze them. I took them out, thawed them and used them
> in
> gravy. Now I want to refreeze.

No reason meata balles in sauce can't be refrozed a half dozen times, so
long as it wasn't permitted to sit out at room temperature each time. And
it's kinda difficult to ruin the texture of meata balles in sauce by
freezing and refreezing... the very worst could happen is sauce bolognese