How to store jelly - 7 simple and useful tips

What Russian does not like nourishing jelly

Homemade jelly - King cuisine. It is a dish almost unchanged migrated through the centuries to the present day, and are indifferent to it, perhaps not. How to store it? On this and tell.

Aspic: the main storage options

Usually with aspic owner has to tinker more than one hour and is why most of them prefer to acquire a lot of broth. Culinary instruction and recipe implies certain conditions of storage brawn - in the cold. cook this dish with your hands is not difficult, but the process is quite laborious.

Cold Storage: 4 rules

Since everyone in the kitchen there is a refrigerator, it is logical to remove the excess portion is ready to, or if the dish is not yet frozen. Not everyone knows how much brawn freezes in the refrigerator.

If you pour in the evening and put on the shelf next to the freezer, the night will be enough to complete solidification. Containers with a filling on the middle shelf will stiffen a little longer.

As often happens, aspic after a feast or a hearty lunch is still a couple of the same feasts. Yummy throw a pity, as jelly stored in the refrigerator?

Sanitary standards are allowed to keep this dish is not more than 36 hours, but can also be stored longer, and some cunning tricks can prolong its normal state before 5-7 days:

Photo	Aspic storage in the refrigerator
	rule 1 Use clean containers made of metal, glass or plastic. The tank should be of small volume, preferably with a lid. If a sufficient number of dishes there, you can buy small containers. Keep products in their comfortable, and the price of such containers are not a burden for the budget.
	rule 2 If you do not plan to eat the jelly in the next day, something of jewelry such as carrots and greens should be abandoned. Untreated thermally additive reduces the shelf life of food at times. In extreme cases, place the pieces beauty of boiled carrots.
	rule 3 Protect from air entrapment jelly. If there is no cover, close the container with cling film. This not only helps in maintaining the freshness, but also eliminates the smell spread to other products.
	rule 4 Fatty meat not only makes delicious soup, but at hardening serves as a natural protective barrier in the form of a thick layer of congealed fat. Remove it just before eating edible.

Horseradish - a good addition to meat aspic, moreover, it is a natural preservative. Horseradish layer on aspic prolongs the storage dish.

Aspic can be stored in the refrigerator for about a week, if:

• after cooking was immediately placed in a cool place;
• It did not stand a long time out of the refrigerator (1 hour stay in a warm environment reduces the shelf life of food by about a day);
• It has raw or thermally unprocessed vegetables and herbs;
• dishes covered with a lid or plastic wrap;
• from the container in which the dish is stored, not eat;
• utensils used net;
• refrigerator temperature not higher mode +8 ° C.

Storage in the freezer: 3 rules

Interestingly, the stored jelly can be in the freezer. But it is provided that the temperature in the freezer ranges from -5 ° C. The dish can be taken on the balcony or in the cold aisle as an alternative to the cold season, the freezer, but make sure that it is not frozen:

Picture	Aspic storage in the freezer
	rule 1 Close the container with a tight lid aspic, or allow the temperature to be constant in the freezer.
	rule 2 Is it possible to freeze the jelly in the freezer? Deep Freeze allows you to increase the shelf life of 2-3 months. But it is worth considering that the taste and consistency of the dishes will change for the worse.
	rule 3 Do not freeze the jelly again if it was in the heat for a long time and started to melt.

Thawed, but not eaten jelly can "revive", shifting it in a pan and heated. Bring to a boil it is not necessary, but when the jelly will turn into a broth, it can be used as a basis for soup, or cool and freeze again. In this case, the soup can be cooked a little later.

How to extend the life of brawn

Proper storage aspic prolongs its freshness

Jelly can be stored without a refrigerator or freezer, if there is a cool cellar. In cold weather, such issues do not cause problems. But how to keep the dish in a fresh state longer and what not to do?

• Portion containers will preserve food freshness for longer than the container with a volume of 2-3 servings.
• It is believed that a large number of spices or onions and garlic to increase shelf life. But they only mask the smell of stale ingredients.
• Salt - a natural preservative, so salted insufficiently jelly is likely to deteriorate faster.
• If ignited metal utensils in the oven, and plastic in the microwave oven, the contents stored in it for a couple of days longer.

Output

Many aspic - good, but do not cook it for future use, and to eat all day for two. Long-term storage of any product, even in the refrigerator will inevitably lead to its deterioration. Videos in this article illustrates all the ways of proper storage aspic. If you have your own tricks - write about them in the comments.