Freezing Refrigerated Film

DavidClapp · Mar 27, 2020

Hi there,

I have a whole load of refrigerated film in the fridge and I need to make room for vegetables

I want to put the cooled fridge on the freezer, but I don't know whether it will have an adverse affect on the chemicals.

Can anyone advise? There's lots of info about freezing / refrigerating film, but nothing on freezing refrigerated film.

Thank you in advance

Agulliver · Mar 27, 2020

Are you saying that you want to take your refrigerated film and freeze it? That's perfectly fine, it's not like meat....you can chill, freeze, thaw, refreeze etc as much as you like. Just be careful to bring it up to room temperature slowly/naturally rather than heating it when you come to use it.

Sirius Glass · Mar 27, 2020

Agulliver said:
Are you saying that you want to take your refrigerated film and freeze it? That's perfectly fine, it's not like meat....you can chill, freeze, thaw, refreeze etc as much as you like. Just be careful to bring it up to room temperature slowly/naturally rather than heating it when you come to use it.

Yes as long as the sealed packages have not been opened. If they have those rolls need to be sealed in plastic bags first.

DavidClapp · Mar 28, 2020

Agulliver said:
Are you saying that you want to take your refrigerated film and freeze it? That's perfectly fine, it's not like meat....you can chill, freeze, thaw, refreeze etc as much as you like. Just be careful to bring it up to room temperature slowly/naturally rather than heating it when you come to use it.

Sorry I was a bit sqewy with my question - yes you are right - I want to freeze refrigerated film! I am not using as much due to the current global situation (sigh), so I am going to freeze it all for now....

DavidClapp · Mar 28, 2020

Sirius Glass said:
Yes as long as the sealed packages have not been opened. If they have those rolls need to be sealed in plastic bags first.

Thank you - all the film is wrapped in its original individual plastic wrappers, nothing is open and it's all been in a tupperware box in the fridge.

Sirius Glass · Mar 28, 2020

DavidClapp said:
Thank you - all the film is wrapped in its original individual plastic wrappers, nothing is open and it's all been in a tupperware box in the fridge.

I recommend that you do not microwave those tupperware containers while the film is still in them.

Trask · Mar 28, 2020

Hey, I’m kind of in the same boat — had to pull frozen film from the freezer so we could, you know, have food to eat! Keeping it in the cool basement, will re-freeze it once covid-19 disappears. And then I’ll hope it doesn’t return in the Fall....

abruzzi · Apr 1, 2020

I remember seeing a post on here from someone at Ilford that said something to the effect that it is possible for repeated freeze thaw cycles could have an adverse effect on film, but that a few times would cause negligible damage. That’s of course hearsay of a somewhat non commital post , but it does make some logical sense.

MattKing · Apr 1, 2020

The main advantage of freezing or refrigerating film for reasonably moderate periods of time is that it provides control and and stability of temperature and humidity, at levels appropriate for film.
In other words, pick a choice that avoids high temperature and high humidity and temperature and humidity swings and you will protect your film.

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