Freezing Chinese Food?

[JoeCalFuckingZaghe]

Not really an AIBU but can you / have you frozen food from the Chinese takeaway before? We had a bit of a fart on last night with the Chinese and ended up getting 2 lots of Chinese delivered to us.
We already massively over order and end up eating Chinese for lunch from one order, so I don’t want to waste the 2nd order.
For freezing we have;
Beef Chow Mein
House Special Fried Rice
Satay Chicken
Battered Chicken balls and a Sweet and Sour Sauce
Salt and Chilli Chips

There’s obviously hardly any room in the bloody freezer with all the Xmas bits in there. Closest friends to us are veggie so nothings really good for them to offload on.

Would you freeze / is it freezable? I expect most of it is.

The only thing i ever froze was some chinese curry. I felt mental doing it but it was nice defrosted.

Freezable maybe
Beef Chow Mein
Satay Chicken
With the caveat that you might be freezing something previously defrosted. But will probs be ok.

Won't freeze well
Battered Chicken balls and a Sweet and Sour Sauce
Salt and Chilli Chips

Really don't freeze as could kill you
House Special Fried Rice

I wouldn't. You'll just have to eat it all today!

I always freeze our left overs. I have a tub with salt and pepper shredded chicken, chicken fried rice and noodles in the freezer.

I’ve been doing it for 15+ years and several different shops/chefs and I’ve never had an issue.

I wouldn’t freeze the chips or the chicken balls they would taste awful reheated. However I’ve always freezes chow mein, rice and chicken and they’ve tasted even better reheated.

Please do not freeze the rice. Throw it away. The risk of bacillus cereus poisoning is not worth it.

Read this thread from the other day.

@Ginfordinner

Please do not freeze the rice. Throw it away. The risk of bacillus cereus poisoning is not worth it.

Read this thread from the other day.

Tbh I would place my bet on the reheated prawn rather than the rice....

Do not freeze the rice, it really is one of the worst things for causing food poisoning!

SchrodingersImmigrant They could be as bad as each ther, so I would throw out the prawns as well. Bacillua cereus poisoning is nasty. I have had it. I won't touch rice at buffets (which is where I picked up the poisoning from), and will only eat freshly cooked rice. It's a bit like Russian Roullette TBH, but I risk I wouldn't take.

@Ginfordinner

SchrodingersImmigrant They could be as bad as each ther, so I would throw out the prawns as well. Bacillua cereus poisoning is nasty. I have had it. I won't touch rice at buffets (which is where I picked up the poisoning from), and will only eat freshly cooked rice. It's a bit like Russian Roullette TBH, but I risk I wouldn't take.

It's good taht all restaurants usually allow substitutes. It's bad poisoning and yeah, triple reheated rice is shit. Taht said I prelare my own for freezer, but I can be sure it was cooled and reheated right.

I think it'll be fine. However certain items on your list don't freeze all that well. But rice freezes nicely and I've never had problems with food poisoning ever!

I would just store in fridge and eat in a few days.

I always freeze leftover Chinese and it always comes out nice, the child and chicken balls id reheat in the over once defrosted, delicious!

@Oblomov20

I think it'll be fine. However certain items on your list don't freeze all that well. But rice freezes nicely and I've never had problems with food poisoning ever!

Hence my Russian Roulette comment. That is terrible advice, just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean that all rice that has been cooked and reheated twice is safe to eat

Thanks all. I did think chips would be weird to freeze but I hate cold chips texture. We really can’t eat it all today I’m still sweating grease and msg from last night

Never really thought about the rice tbh. We always reheat rice but I’m rather lax about this kind of stuff and it’s lead to a stomach of steel and a cocky attitude with it. Plus like people say it’s probably already been frozen and reheated at the shop .. DP will probably trough it if I try and Chuck it tbh

We often freeze chips from the chippie, as their portions are huge.

They are actually really good reheated to crispy in the oven (and sprinkled with a salt/paprika mix). If your Chinese chips are homemade, not factory fries, and you remove any greenery like spring onion, I reckon they'd be lush.

Freezing rice is safe as long as it’s cooled and frozen as soon as possible after cooking. If I’d cooked it myself I’d freeze it but not risk it if it came from elsewhere.

Everything else is freeze and see if it survived - if it was going to go in the bin anyway then it’s worth seeing if it survives being frozen!

I’d, not if!

Freezing rice is safe as long as it’s cooled and frozen as soon as possible after cooking

Yes it is, but it was fried rice which means that it was cooked once, cooled then cooked again when it was fried. I wouldn't then want to reheat it again. I have frozen rice that I have cooked myself.

@ZenNudist

The only thing i ever froze was some chinese curry. I felt mental doing it but it was nice defrosted.

Freezable maybe
Beef Chow Mein
Satay Chicken
With the caveat that you might be freezing something previously defrosted. But will probs be ok.

Won't freeze well
Battered Chicken balls and a Sweet and Sour Sauce
Salt and Chilli Chips

Really don't freeze as could kill you
House Special Fried Rice

Otoh, I'd be perfectly happy freezing the rice, think the sweet and sour would be fine, and if anything would be iffy after freezing, I'd expect the noodles to go a bit soggy.

I'd eat the noodles today or tomorrow, make an omelette with the chips and freeze the rest.

If you are going to reheat chips do them in a dry frying pan not the microwave. Not as good as fresh but loads better than microwaved