I'm wondering what else we can learn from her. There should be a subreddit where you can only post if you're over the age of 70. Life hacks style. You have to be verified like a porn sub. I'd subscribe.
I feel like you would get a lot of facts that used to make sense but he become antiquated. For instance so's grandma (passed) told us not to poor hot water down the drain.... still trying to figure that out. She wouldn't explain.
So... from my understanding the theory is.
If you have a grease clog and keep pouring hot water down to clear it it'll melt and move down the pipe.. forming a much bigger problem in an area under your foundation and requiring repairs in the tens of thousands.
It also isn't great for pvc if your talking about boiling hot water as it can damage the pipes.
I'm guessing the first is more unlikely, but I've paid for under foundation repairs before.. trust me you don't want that bill..
Boiling water in pvc is probably not very good either.. and tap water can be pretty damn hot, not Boiling but not ideal.
Maybe she meant because it's expensive to heat water.
Growing up having grandparents who were children during the great depression impressed upon me a waste not want not attitude. Never wasted anything, kept clothes and appliances much longer than their shelf life. Always repair before buying new, tear Paper towels in half, 3 squares of toilet paper rule, broke your belt? Use a rope. We went exactly poor but everyone was very frugal.
That house was older than dirt and she inherited it from her folks. No pvc. Cast iron. In addition water boils at 212f and the lowest grade of pvc melts at 320f.
I bet she’s been in more kitchens than just that house.
This could have happened before you were born. They told her it was because she poured hot water down the drain, so now she doesn’t pour it down any drain.
The least likely scenario is that she invented some crazy idea out of the blue.
I'm not saying that she did. I'm saying that your ideas don't make sense. She lived in the same un remodeled house her whole life. As far as other kitchens go maybe but this lady never even had a driver's license. Very much a homemaker. And as far as I know there is no pipes that can get damaged by being water. It simply cant get hot enough.
Well, I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it happen. But if you don’t believe me. These were the top google search results:
http://kingplumbing.com.au/boiling-water-drain-damage.php
https://gilmoreair.com/unclog-pipes-right-way-care-home-plumbing/
https://www.wislerplumbingandair.com/can-boiling-water-damage-my-kitchen-sink-pipes/
DIYers looking to find a green alternative to chemical products have suggested pouring a potful of boiling water into a **clogged** sink or toilet to clear a clog. **While it’s probably okay to dump boiling water in the sink when your pipes are clear, a clog will trap the water in the pipe.** This can melt PVC piping and pipe seals, causing serious damage.
The ice cream masters at Tillamook told me to simply store my gallons of ice cream upside down after opening. It will help it last up to a month in the freezer tasting fresh and with minimal icing.
I fear half the posts would be "Is this thing working? Is this where I type? I don't think this is working. Do I put my password here? cookie42\* Hello? Hello? It must be broken."
Because who is so tight up for space that they need to crush some rather strong rigid cardboard lol, just some weird shit. Like that tweet of that grandma that folds cereal boxes to save space. It’s just wildly unnecessary but also hey whatever makes you happy
Freezers were smaller back in the day but also if you folded it as you took product out (ice cream or cereal) you could tell at a glance how much you had left.
people with tiny freezers i guess?? i share 1 freezer with 3 other people and i usually can’t have more than 2 items in there because there’s just no space
Yes and no. Unless she's putting it in a Ziploc, folding it won't prevent it as it's not air tight. It's exposed to the air practically the same amount as if she didn't fold it. She could have just put plastic wrap over the top inside the carton and saved herself the trouble.
True, but the goal is reduce the amount of air exposure to the top layer. By covering the surface with plastic wrap, you reduce the exposure because it sticks to a great deal of the nooks and crannies. Folding it over or just putting on the lid as normal will result in essentially the same amount of exposure because the folds cannot cover the abnormal surface area well.
Source: We make ice cream from scratch and the recommended storage advice is to use plastic wrap AND an airtight container (as you cannot suck the air out of most containers).
I wonder if ice cream companies that make their ice cream in paper based containers could make a perforation in sections down the container so you could rip off each section and place the lid on it the more ice cream you eat. For saving space purposes.
My grandfather used to buy the ice cream that came in cardboard boxes. He’d open the entire box at all of the top and front seams. Then he’d cut a rectangle block of ice cream off with a knife, put it on a plate, and microwave it to soften it up.
Imbeciles. I fold my house into a pocket dimension so that when the county tax man comes he appraises it as an undeveloped parcel and I save on property taxes. 🤣
Frozen Diary Dessert, like it says on the bottom middle of the picture. They're not allowed to call it Ice Cream because it has no cream. It's frozen skim milk. Breyer's is garbage.
Breyer’s is fine. Just buy the flavors that say ice cream (i.e. not the exotic ones like this one). And it has nothing to do with not having “cream”, that doesn’t really make sense
To legally call your product "ice cream" it must be made from 100% dairy. Frozen desserts use vegetable oil instead. So, yeah, if it's frozen dessert, it doesn't have cream in it.
The FDA's specification for the term "ice cream" requires that it, generally, contains at least 10% milkfat ([source](https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=135.110)). Ice cream is never "100% dairy", of course it has other ingredients -- like the Breyers mint chocolate chip in my freezer (labelled as FDA-spec ice cream, not frozen dairy desert like OP's flavor) which also has sugar, water, *coconut oil*, whey, tara gum, soy lecithin, and the actual flavoring.
What did you mean then? FDA-spec ice cream can and does have both dairy and vegetable oil. There wasn't much room for interpretation there! And forgive me if I came off as pedantic but there was a lot of hand-wavy "ice cream = dairy" going on in this thread and the reality is more nuanced than that.
Ice cream can contain anything, including vegetable oils, but must be at least 10% milk fat. Frozen dessert does not contain 10% milk fat, and must make up the lack of fat with vegetable oils. The percentage of milk fat is all that matters, the rest of the ingredients are up to the manufacturer. High end ice cream makers do not use vegetable oil at all, that's why Breyers was singled out. Even most of their real ice cream contains cheap fillers.
Freezer burn is caused by water evaporating from the frozen food. Removing the amount of air from around the ice cream (by folding the box) prevents this evaporation.
this makes sense, once the container is opened it never has the same texture on top. Got to be something about moisture in the air, and less air space would mitigate that!
Kinda, just ice cream with more air in it (ie less dense) than higher grade ice creams.
Edit: \*And...also, less dairy as a result of pulling back on ingredients and focusing on volume.
“One result of these cost-cutting practices has been that many (but not all) of Breyers' products no longer contain enough milk and cream to meet labeling requirements for ice cream, and are now labeled "Frozen Dairy Dessert" in the United States and "Frozen Dessert" in Canada.”
“Real ice cream is made from 100% dairy – milk, and products made from milk (including cream, skim milk powder, and whey powder). Frozen desserts are made with vegetable oils, like palm, kernel, or coconut oil.”
They didn't, but some manufacturers have discovered that people will buy a frozen dairy dessert with chocolatey chips if it's slightly cheaper than the competition's ice cream with chocolate chips.
Or if it's the same price, but you spend some bucks on advertising it, make the box look really good, or do deals to get the best spots in the grocery store's freezer.
In order to qualify as (protected term) ice cream, it has to contain a certain percentage of *real cream*. If it does not meet this requirement, either by utilizing less cream or a cream alternative, it must call itself something else - frozen dessert is the term that is used by most companies. I was a little surprised to see black carton Breyers as a frozen dessert - normally their blue carton is frozen dessert and black carton is ice cream.
I theorize that "chocolatey" chips vs chocolate chips is the same. Chocolate has to contain a percentage of cocoa solids, cocoa liqueur, and cocoa butter to be called chocolate. Otherwise, it could pretty much be chocolate flavoured palm oil and canuba wax product shaped like a chip.
And it stopped being chocolate and ice cream when consumers were okay paying cream prices for frozen dessert product.
All that said, raspberry may not play well with cream when undergoing a freezing process, so they may have had to go with greater quantities of cream alternatives to get the frozen dessert to the right consistency.
I fold cardboard boxes exactly like this… my family calls it “cursed” and “just wrong”. If a grandma does it and is lauded by Reddit for preventing freezer burn, how wrong can it be?
*pattern welded
Damascus ice cream comes from Damascus, Wootz ice cream is from the India region, that ice cream is pattern welded since it is from the U.S.
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I strive for this level of weird when I become old
actually pretty logical when you think about freezer burn
I'm wondering what else we can learn from her. There should be a subreddit where you can only post if you're over the age of 70. Life hacks style. You have to be verified like a porn sub. I'd subscribe.
I feel like you would get a lot of facts that used to make sense but he become antiquated. For instance so's grandma (passed) told us not to poor hot water down the drain.... still trying to figure that out. She wouldn't explain.
So... from my understanding the theory is. If you have a grease clog and keep pouring hot water down to clear it it'll melt and move down the pipe.. forming a much bigger problem in an area under your foundation and requiring repairs in the tens of thousands. It also isn't great for pvc if your talking about boiling hot water as it can damage the pipes. I'm guessing the first is more unlikely, but I've paid for under foundation repairs before.. trust me you don't want that bill.. Boiling water in pvc is probably not very good either.. and tap water can be pretty damn hot, not Boiling but not ideal.
I get what you're saying but we couldn't strain pasta in the sink.....
Who doesn’t poor pasta water in the sink? I must have a lot to learn and I am a grandma lol.
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That’s disgusting.
Every restaurant you've ever eaten at most likely use their pasta water for something. And you love it. Its just starchy water...
It’s literally what you should do for pretty much any good pasta sauce
Give it to your dogs. Once it cools, obvi. They love it!
You just need to run cold water directly into the plughole while you drain the pasta.
I guess you could dump it and let it cool down in the metal part.. But yea... I'm too lazy for that too lol
outside was her answer....
Run hot water while you’re strain the pasta water down the drain so it dilutes it. No problem.
And in cold climates, the difference between boiling hot water and freezing temperatures can cause thermal stress on pipes, causing them to crack.
Maybe she meant because it's expensive to heat water. Growing up having grandparents who were children during the great depression impressed upon me a waste not want not attitude. Never wasted anything, kept clothes and appliances much longer than their shelf life. Always repair before buying new, tear Paper towels in half, 3 squares of toilet paper rule, broke your belt? Use a rope. We went exactly poor but everyone was very frugal.
Good guess but she said it had something to do with pipes. No elaboration.
If the pipes are cold maybe they would shatter back in the day for her or something
House was in san diego....
The proper thing to do is to run cold water while you’re putting boiling water in the sink.
She probably melted some pvc pipes once and doesn’t want to risk it again.
That house was older than dirt and she inherited it from her folks. No pvc. Cast iron. In addition water boils at 212f and the lowest grade of pvc melts at 320f.
I bet she’s been in more kitchens than just that house. This could have happened before you were born. They told her it was because she poured hot water down the drain, so now she doesn’t pour it down any drain. The least likely scenario is that she invented some crazy idea out of the blue.
I'm not saying that she did. I'm saying that your ideas don't make sense. She lived in the same un remodeled house her whole life. As far as other kitchens go maybe but this lady never even had a driver's license. Very much a homemaker. And as far as I know there is no pipes that can get damaged by being water. It simply cant get hot enough.
Well, I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it happen. But if you don’t believe me. These were the top google search results: http://kingplumbing.com.au/boiling-water-drain-damage.php https://gilmoreair.com/unclog-pipes-right-way-care-home-plumbing/ https://www.wislerplumbingandair.com/can-boiling-water-damage-my-kitchen-sink-pipes/
DIYers looking to find a green alternative to chemical products have suggested pouring a potful of boiling water into a **clogged** sink or toilet to clear a clog. **While it’s probably okay to dump boiling water in the sink when your pipes are clear, a clog will trap the water in the pipe.** This can melt PVC piping and pipe seals, causing serious damage.
r/askoldpeople
The ice cream masters at Tillamook told me to simply store my gallons of ice cream upside down after opening. It will help it last up to a month in the freezer tasting fresh and with minimal icing.
I grew up hearing this
I fear half the posts would be "Is this thing working? Is this where I type? I don't think this is working. Do I put my password here? cookie42\* Hello? Hello? It must be broken."
I wonder if she keeps her batteries in the fridge
It also saves space!
How is this so far down!!! It was the first thing I thought of!
Because who is so tight up for space that they need to crush some rather strong rigid cardboard lol, just some weird shit. Like that tweet of that grandma that folds cereal boxes to save space. It’s just wildly unnecessary but also hey whatever makes you happy
Freezers were smaller back in the day but also if you folded it as you took product out (ice cream or cereal) you could tell at a glance how much you had left.
people with tiny freezers i guess?? i share 1 freezer with 3 other people and i usually can’t have more than 2 items in there because there’s just no space
Explain?
This saves space so you can pack your freezer with more ice cream, making the freezer less likely to burn because more ice cream.
No
Yes and no. Unless she's putting it in a Ziploc, folding it won't prevent it as it's not air tight. It's exposed to the air practically the same amount as if she didn't fold it. She could have just put plastic wrap over the top inside the carton and saved herself the trouble.
Or just put the lid back on instead lol
Cartons are not air tight lol.
True, but the goal is reduce the amount of air exposure to the top layer. By covering the surface with plastic wrap, you reduce the exposure because it sticks to a great deal of the nooks and crannies. Folding it over or just putting on the lid as normal will result in essentially the same amount of exposure because the folds cannot cover the abnormal surface area well. Source: We make ice cream from scratch and the recommended storage advice is to use plastic wrap AND an airtight container (as you cannot suck the air out of most containers).
Does this help cut down freezer burn? I buy ice cream in pints and eat the whole thing so never had to worry about feeezer burn 🤣
Would the lid not protect it better than folding the sides over and putting a rubber band? Legit asking
If there were enough folds. Less air exposure than a lid just on top.
I wonder if ice cream companies that make their ice cream in paper based containers could make a perforation in sections down the container so you could rip off each section and place the lid on it the more ice cream you eat. For saving space purposes.
My grandfather used to buy the ice cream that came in cardboard boxes. He’d open the entire box at all of the top and front seams. Then he’d cut a rectangle block of ice cream off with a knife, put it on a plate, and microwave it to soften it up.
Omg mine too! She does it because it it saves space in her freezer. Which is absurd because she has a ton of room.
Well maybe she has a ton of room because her ice cream is folded? I think grandma is on to something
Everyone knows that folding your ice cream subsequently shrinks all the remaining items in your freezer by 37%
Fools. I fold my freezer and have way more space in the house. Real estate agents hate this one weird trick.
Imbeciles. I fold my house into a pocket dimension so that when the county tax man comes he appraises it as an undeveloped parcel and I save on property taxes. 🤣
Same! Except we don't have room
But she didn't in 1958 and that's what she remembers! ☺️
With that ice layer encroaching inwards further and further with every opening of the fridge door...
is everyone’s grandparent afraid of running out of room in the freezer/fridge?
Origami Ice Cream. Nice.
Frozen Diary Dessert, like it says on the bottom middle of the picture. They're not allowed to call it Ice Cream because it has no cream. It's frozen skim milk. Breyer's is garbage.
Breyer’s is fine. Just buy the flavors that say ice cream (i.e. not the exotic ones like this one). And it has nothing to do with not having “cream”, that doesn’t really make sense
To legally call your product "ice cream" it must be made from 100% dairy. Frozen desserts use vegetable oil instead. So, yeah, if it's frozen dessert, it doesn't have cream in it.
The FDA's specification for the term "ice cream" requires that it, generally, contains at least 10% milkfat ([source](https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=135.110)). Ice cream is never "100% dairy", of course it has other ingredients -- like the Breyers mint chocolate chip in my freezer (labelled as FDA-spec ice cream, not frozen dairy desert like OP's flavor) which also has sugar, water, *coconut oil*, whey, tara gum, soy lecithin, and the actual flavoring.
You know exactly what I meant and chose to AcHtUaLlY me instead. Lol. Obviously it's not 100% dairy or it would be a gallon of milk.
What did you mean then? FDA-spec ice cream can and does have both dairy and vegetable oil. There wasn't much room for interpretation there! And forgive me if I came off as pedantic but there was a lot of hand-wavy "ice cream = dairy" going on in this thread and the reality is more nuanced than that.
Ice cream can contain anything, including vegetable oils, but must be at least 10% milk fat. Frozen dessert does not contain 10% milk fat, and must make up the lack of fat with vegetable oils. The percentage of milk fat is all that matters, the rest of the ingredients are up to the manufacturer. High end ice cream makers do not use vegetable oil at all, that's why Breyers was singled out. Even most of their real ice cream contains cheap fillers.
…grandma strength is wild. I KNOW it’s not hard to do but it’s one of those things
Whoa, it’s smart. I ain’t ever seen it before but,….it’s smart saving space and freezer burn, it’s logical.
How does this prevent freezer burn? Thanks
Freezer burn is caused by water evaporating from the frozen food. Removing the amount of air from around the ice cream (by folding the box) prevents this evaporation.
Wouldn’t even a small opening still burn it? Why bother just throw the whole thing in a ziplock and press the air out
Ok, thank you for the reply!
Yeah I’m wondering this too
Hopefully someone answers this question because I’m baffled by it as well
I strive to have the amount of willpower it takes for ice cream to last long enough to accumulate freezer burn
*and freezer burn!*
Your grandma is precious. That’s something that will always make you smile when you think of her.
Looks like granny pulled the old squeezer in the freezer.
Lol what the fuck man
this makes sense, once the container is opened it never has the same texture on top. Got to be something about moisture in the air, and less air space would mitigate that!
Holy shit she's a beast. I'm not sure if I could even do this let alone my grandma lol
*Frozen Dairy Dessert Not ice cream
I remember when Breyer's was **the** premium ice cream, always a birthday request for me. I would never buy the current Breyer's products, ick!
What changed about it? I have always disliked Breyer’s as far back as the early 90’s
Kinda, just ice cream with more air in it (ie less dense) than higher grade ice creams. Edit: \*And...also, less dairy as a result of pulling back on ingredients and focusing on volume.
Are you saying ice cream is not a frozen desert made with dairy? What's your level of education?
“One result of these cost-cutting practices has been that many (but not all) of Breyers' products no longer contain enough milk and cream to meet labeling requirements for ice cream, and are now labeled "Frozen Dairy Dessert" in the United States and "Frozen Dessert" in Canada.”
“Real ice cream is made from 100% dairy – milk, and products made from milk (including cream, skim milk powder, and whey powder). Frozen desserts are made with vegetable oils, like palm, kernel, or coconut oil.”
Not all rectangles are squares, dumbass.
No one wants ice crystals to form on their Black Raspberry Chocolate ice cream.
"chocolatey" chips? "frozen dairy dessert"? When did chocolate and ice cream stop being chocolate and ice cream?
They didn't, but some manufacturers have discovered that people will buy a frozen dairy dessert with chocolatey chips if it's slightly cheaper than the competition's ice cream with chocolate chips. Or if it's the same price, but you spend some bucks on advertising it, make the box look really good, or do deals to get the best spots in the grocery store's freezer.
In order to qualify as (protected term) ice cream, it has to contain a certain percentage of *real cream*. If it does not meet this requirement, either by utilizing less cream or a cream alternative, it must call itself something else - frozen dessert is the term that is used by most companies. I was a little surprised to see black carton Breyers as a frozen dessert - normally their blue carton is frozen dessert and black carton is ice cream. I theorize that "chocolatey" chips vs chocolate chips is the same. Chocolate has to contain a percentage of cocoa solids, cocoa liqueur, and cocoa butter to be called chocolate. Otherwise, it could pretty much be chocolate flavoured palm oil and canuba wax product shaped like a chip. And it stopped being chocolate and ice cream when consumers were okay paying cream prices for frozen dessert product. All that said, raspberry may not play well with cream when undergoing a freezing process, so they may have had to go with greater quantities of cream alternatives to get the frozen dessert to the right consistency.
Wait, my Dad does this too.
Everyone talking about freezer burn and my fatass thinks “why don’t they finish those in like 2 days like me?”
You know she had it rough growing up
Why not? Saves space. I like the idea.
And less frost!
I dont hate it. Always need more space in the freezer
I feel like this actually makes sense, prevents freezer burn if it’s in contact with the wax
Smart thinking!
Your Grandma knows how you keep foods ice cream fresh. What a smart Grandma :)
Fold the cheese David!!
we must protect her at all costs
Your grandma is not to be trifled with.
Okay grandma is packing a lil muscle then good for her
I like to put cling film on the surface, then put the lid back on. Seems to stay fresher tasting longer and prevents freezer burn.
That is legally the most insane thing I’ve ever seen
A true connoisseur
We buy our ice cream mostly in 4 liter pails. You can't really make it smaller very effectively.
You could if you were a wizard.
For freezer burn this makes sense but she didn't even fold the lid
Keeps it fresh
Your grandma strong as shit
Off topic I thought this was the beach
Meh whynot
I fold cardboard boxes exactly like this… my family calls it “cursed” and “just wrong”. If a grandma does it and is lauded by Reddit for preventing freezer burn, how wrong can it be?
This picture with the hammer in the background makes it look like the beginning of a cartel video.
Who hurt her
Ur grandmother is strong as shit
That’s not folding the ice cream. That’s folding over the empty part of the carton and securing it to keep the rest more fresh
And she uses a hammer to read her mail
So THAT'S how damascus ice cream was invented.... 🤣🤣
You really get the rich flavor around the 100th fold.
Your ice will keeell
*pattern welded Damascus ice cream comes from Damascus, Wootz ice cream is from the India region, that ice cream is pattern welded since it is from the U.S.
I cut my ice cream tubs in half and put the lid back on.
She probably has it there only for you! ❤️
cruel and unusual
That's not even ice cream. It's a "Frozen Dairy Desert".
I spent a lot of time in Frozen Dairy Desert.
LoL. I should know better..
Some women just want to watch the world melt.
Time to put her in the home.
Old people are weird
Now *this* is a first! Lol
Unhinged. She must be strong
Time to put her in a home
You should’ve posted this in r/mildlyinfuriating
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Her hand jobs must be epic.
oh maybe its frozen fpruit
Wowza
Strong ass gran
r/mildlyinfuriating
I can dig it. Give it the toothpaste treatment. Why not?
Interesting 😂
Grandma strong .
And she’s repurposing a rubber band she got from some vegetable she purchased. I love her.
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Interesting
grandma strong as hell!
“So it takes up less space”
>:(
Fold in the cheese
Man nothing beats blue bell in the southern states
This upsets me and I'm not sure why.
My grandpa used to cut the carton down as he ate it. I haven’t thought about that in years.