Elaine Parrish wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Chuck wrote:
>
> > On 22 Jan 2006 22:03:41 GMT, Linda > wrote:
> >
> > ><Sigh>
> > >
> > >I have checked my freezer temp. and have made sure there is enough
> > >circulation... yada yada.
> > >
> > >This is kind of a dumb question but..
> > >if you would freeze something in water
> > >that is already encircled/encase in a plastic wrap, aluminum foil
> > >or air tight container...
> > >would you get or tast freezer burn??
> > >
> > >Example..
> > >a chicken breast wrapped tightly & frozed vs.
> > >chicken breast wrapped and wrapped tightly, water poured over &
> > >frozed.
> > >
> > >I know the first wrapping if left too long in MY freezer would
> > >produce the freezer burn and freezer burn taste,
> > >
> > >Would the item encased in ice do the same?
> > >
> > >I hope you understand my question.
> > >
> > >Just curious.
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > This is the ONLY way my dad would freeze fresh caught fish when I was
> > a kid.. to prevent freezer burn..
> > He'd take 1/2 gallon cardboard milk carton that had been washed out..
> > The top glued seams carefully pulled apart. Inserted fish that had
> > been cleaned and scaled, fill with water, top closed back and
> > stapled..then freeze..
> > Chuck (in SC)
> >
>
> I remember the the "old folks" doing that.
>
> A number of years ago when Florida had citrus on the trees, a cold front
> was moving across this area and a heavy frost and hard freeze was
> expected. To save the citrus, the orchard folks sprayed the citrus with
> water, encasing the fruit in a thick coating of ice. It "saved" the
> citrus (it could only be used for juice because it broke down the pulp or
> something, but it "saved" it).
>
> This is one of those concepts that I have trouble with - like a two inch
> water pipe will deliver *four* times as much water as a one inch water
> pipe, and with the Interstate highway system, if you want to travel North,
> go east, and if you want to travel South, go west, and if you are in
> Alaska and you want to stay warm, build yourself a house out of ice.
> Geez, these things are just not linearly logical.
>
> And so it was with the citrus. Wasn't Mother Nature just going to do the
> same thing the farmers were doing? Apparently not. They were saving the
> citrus using the same means by which she was going to kill it. go figure.
>
> Elaine, too

We live in a fishing village that had a processing plant that
processed the daily catch. They would single freeze fish, then run it
through ice water several times, freezing in between each pass, until it
had enough of a glaze on it to keep it from freezer burn.... Sharon