Being the phantom gourmet that I am in the kitchen, I "cooked" myself a tray of ice this evening. Putting unfrozen water back into the freezer required quite the balancing act since my tiny freezer is crammed with 2 lbs of coffee beans, frozen veggies, an entire chicken family I bought for $1.99/lb, salmon fillets, and a 20 pack of Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches. It made me realize that at some point I may need to break down and buy a second freezer case.
Growing up my family, along with just about every other family I knew, had an additional freezer for storage. You see, Jews love freezers. While other families use wine cellars or lazy Susans for their sundries, any Jew worth their high holiday tickets prides themselves on having an additional freezer for perishables. Whether it's leftovers from a restaurant, 30 lbs of hamburger they found at a bargain basement price, or 6 gallons of homemade tomato sauce, Jews will freeze pretty much anything. Whether or not they ever actually intend to eat it at a later date doesn't figure into the freezing equation.
I'm sure that this mentality dates back to the old country when food was expensive and hard to come by. Back in Russia it was so freaking cold that one didn't need a freezer; they simply let their food freeze outside during the 13 month winters. One century removed from eastern Europe I find myself in this awful predicament of either buying less food or buying an additional freezer. Genetics has put me in a pretty tough position. What to do, what to do.....
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Just another reason why Koreans and Jews are alike! I make fun of B's freezer because it always looks like he's been hunting with all of the meat frozen in there!I've unfortunately had to minimize my freezer capacity when I got a roommate (and her five or six pints of ice cream) but if you can do it, buy another freezer!
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