On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:04:10 -0800 (PST), Bryan
> wrote:

>On Mar 1, 2:10*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:40:58 -0800 (PST), marco >
>> wrote:
>>
>> >I often read at the end of a recipe,
>> >or an opinion about a recipe,
>> >that a food dish tastes better the next day.
>>
>> >I wonder if this is [many times] a fallacy?
>> >Not in all cases of course.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> My brother and I used to have a running argumebnt abouty chili. He
>> said his chili was not finished until it took a ride through the
>> freezer. He used to make large batches and freeze it before he'd eat
>> any.
>>
>> I also used to make large batches of chili, and while I'd freeze most
>> I'd always have a bowl of what I called "neuveau chili", which was
>> after the cook finished but before it was frozen. And I discovered
>> from doibng this that the "neuveau chili" had a sharper hotter flavor,
>> which a ride through the freezer mellowed out.
>>
>> So yes there are differences. But to each their own, yano?
>
>Freezing the beans makes them softer, not freezing them leaves them
>firmer.

How can that be... last time I checked frozen is harder than thawed.