LPT: label the visible side of boxes with instructions before stacking them in the fridge/freezer

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Write the oven temperature and time to cook (or other prep info) on the thin side of the container that’s visible when you open your fridge or freezer. Never disrupt your beautiful freezer Tetris to check whether the frozen pizza is 400 or 425 again! I keep a sharpie and a roll of masking tape in the kitchen, sometimes it’s hard to write directly on the container due to moisture.

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  3. probablynotreallife Avatar

    When I’m going to cook something from the freezer I tend to remove it from said, therefore this tip is entirely redundant and a complete waste of time.

  4. CommodoreAxis Avatar

    An additional LPT given what you wrote: basically every frozen pizza on the market cooks perfectly fine at 420°F for around 15 minutes (start checking at around 10 especially if it’s thin crust). That’s the one item in the freezer you never need to actually know specifics on.

    Thin crust, thick crust, stuffed, it doesn’t matter. 420° blaze that thing.

  5. Skog13 Avatar

    Why would I need to do this?
    I take out whatever I need from the freezer when I turn on the oven. It’s not like it’s gonna thaw during the five ten minutes it take for the oven to get hot. Plus it’s not like 210 or 225 makes that much of a difference.

  6. muad_dibs Avatar

    My wife puts some boxed frozen food items in freezer bags (to save space) and if they have instructions she just cuts that part out and puts it in the freezer bag as well.

  7. IddleHands Avatar

    My favorite LPT posts are when the OP gets roasted on their “tip”.

  8. soulscythesix Avatar

    This tip seems to suggest that one would first check what temperature the oven is at, then go to the freezer and try to find something that cooks at that.

    Insane behaviour. Milk-then-cereal level thinking.

  9. dizkopat Avatar

    Only eat food that doesn’t have instructions

  10. ahavemeyer Avatar

    This guy has a full fridge.

  11. ThinNeighborhood2276 Avatar

    Great tip! Using masking tape and a sharpie is a smart way to keep everything organized and easily accessible.

  12. iamskwerl Avatar

    Truly some weirdo shit mate

  13. sweetteanoice Avatar

    It’s wild to me that so many people take those instructions seriously. When I’m reheating frozen food, I cook it based off of vibes alone

  14. sorrybroorbyrros Avatar

    Before reheating my food, I always do a wattage check on my microwave.

  15. Californiadude86 Avatar

    A better tip would be to take stuff out the box and write the heating steps with sharpie on the bag.

    I do this to make room.