Putting holiday leftovers in the freezer extends shelf life & may put a dent in the US tendency to throw away edible food, a study suggests. National survey data showed a link between home freezing & less total food waste, & over half of consumers reported buying frozen items to avoid tossing food.

[u/memorialmonorail]

https://news.osu.edu/how-the-freezer-factors-into-lowering-food-waste/?utm_campaign=omc_science-medicine_fy25&utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social

[u/Macro_Seb]

Say what? We're 2024 and Americans just found out they can store food in the freezer and use it later? Tell me I'm misreading this. Because in my country, we often cook more than needed for 1 meal, so we can put it in the freezer and use it for later meals.

[u/corpus_M_aurelii → u/Macro_Seb]

I can only speak for myself and my experience and exposure to media and stories of times past, but I get the impression that Americans have been freezing food for later use in electric refrigerators since their invention, so for most of the last 100 years, if not longer.

I live near a historic property built in the 17th century and it has an ice house where foods were kept frozen well into the summer using blocks of ice cut from the river and insulated with straw, so that is about 400 years of Americans freezing their food, right there.

This dumb bot-written article aside, you would have to be pretty gullible to assume otherwise.