How much cottage cheese is stored in the refrigerator and freezer?

Buying a tasty and healthy dairy product, packaged in unmarked packaging without indicating the expiration dates, many housewives are lost - how much curd is stored without additives and preservatives? Many simply clean the product in a suitable compartment in the refrigerator and are guided by its smell and taste sensations. This is a very dangerous approach, which can lead, if not to poisoning, to a digestive disorder.

The spoiled composition does not immediately give an acidic flavor and gives bitterness, these are signs of far-gone decay processes. The optimal option is to purchase a small amount of cottage cheese, which is eaten during the day. For those who prefer to buy a product in significant quantities, there are recommendations that will help keep it fresh.

The basic rules for storing cottage cheese in the refrigerator

The shelf life of cottage cheese cooked at home is about two days. After that, the product can continue to be consumed, but the number of useful components in it will already be minimal. Such cottage cheese is ideal for making cheese cakes, cheesecakes, dumplings and other delicious products.

In addition, there are several recommendations on how to store cottage cheese that can increase shelf life in the refrigerator, albeit slightly:

1. Fresh product is best stored in food foil, not in a bag. In extreme cases, you can use a tissue bag, previously soaked in cool boiled water and carefully squeezed out.

Tip: Before placing the product in the refrigerator, it must be crushed thoroughly. If you do not break dense clods, then the cool will not reach their inner layers, and they quickly deteriorate from the inside.

1. The resulting construction can not be laid directly on the shelf. It must be removed into a plastic container or enameled container. Cover the cover is not very tight, at the bottom lay out a piece of sugar.
2. To store cottage cheese, use the lowest temperature zone.
3. The optimum value for storage of fresh product is considered to be from 0 to +2 ° C.

Even under such conditions, cottage cheese is not recommended to store more than 3-4 days. In addition, there is a very old approach, which, although it will not extend the shelf life of the product, will allow it to remain very fresh throughout the term. We take pottery covered with glaze, mine and dry. At the bottom we pour a layer of large salt, we spread the cottage cheese on top of it, laid out on a linen cloth, we fix it. A flap of cotton fabric is wetted in a saline solution of weak concentration, we cover a structure, we poke edges. From above you can put a plate with a small yoke.

How to store cottage cheese in the freezer?

Not everyone knows that curd can be frozen. It is recommended to resort to the method in the most extreme cases, because after such processing the composition loses not less than a third of all its useful components. Another drawback of the approach is that after the unfrozen mass, it becomes much drier than before processing. Most often it is allowed for cooking desserts and baking.

The procedure itself is carried out according to the following scheme:

• Take a plastic food container, lining it with a thin, lint-free cloth, you can replace it with a paper towel. From above spread the crumbled cottage cheese, the smaller the clods, the easier it will be to unfreeze.
• Make sure that the walls of the container are not covered by moisture, we tightly cover it with a lid and send it to the corresponding chamber to be frozen.
• Another method can be used, in which just folds of curd, wrapped in foil or cloth, are simply laid out in the freezer. So the product will freeze very quickly, but its texture will become worse after defrosting.

The shelf life of the formulation depends on the temperature at which it is frozen. Within -2 ° C it is not recommended to keep it for more than a week. If the temperature rises from -12 to -18 ° C, the period increases to two weeks. In the freezer, capable of providing a temperature of about -25 ° C, the mass will remain for three weeks. In modern high-power household appliances producing a temperature of -35 ° C, cottage cheese can be kept for a month and even slightly more.

Specificity of defrosting cottage cheese

Mistresses who prefer to freeze the composition, should remember the important points of its preparation for further use. To defrost the mass correctly, it is necessary to place it in the refrigerator on one of the shelves in the common chamber. All manipulation will take at least 10-12 hours, so take care of carrying out the manipulation in advance. Any options for additional thermal impact are strictly prohibited.

Composition can not even be spread out at room temperature. The only thing that is allowed to influence the process in addition is a wet cloth, which needs to be wrapped in a lump after removing it from the freezer.

If you adhere to these rules, you can regularly eat a nutritious product with health benefits and without any risk. If you have any suspicions of spoilage, you should immediately discard it and do not try to use it even as an additive to the filling of cake, cheesecakes or dumplings.