Freezing cottage cheese at home

Rules for freezing cottage cheese

Freezing cottage cheese is a simple matter, but it still has a number of features:

• For storage in the freezer, it is better to use dry granular crumbly cottage cheese, the shelf life of which has not yet come to an end.
• The cottage cheese is placed in portions into glass molds with airtight lids. It is better not to use plastic bags to avoid moisture loss.
• The optimal temperature for freezing cottage cheese is 18℃. This will make the defrosting process easier and will retain all the beneficial nutritional properties. At temperatures below the stated one, the taste of this product deteriorates.
• The shelf life of bulk cottage cheese is 2 months, semi-finished products with cottage cheese no more than a month.

See the video on how to store frozen cottage cheese:

• Cottage cheese frozen in this way is used for preparing dishes in full, immediately after defrosting.

Methods for defrosting cottage cheese

Depending on the purpose of use, there are several ways to defrost this fermented milk product:

1. In a refrigerator. Defrost for about 10 hours for fresh consumption.
2. At room temperature. Defrosting time 3 hours. Used for preparing dishes with subsequent heat treatment.
3. Microwave with defrost function. Used as a quick defrosting option.

With all of the above, it is important to know that cottage cheese after defrosting must fully correspond to fresh: have a white color, pleasant taste and aroma.