holy shit bros. just wanted to share this with anyone reading

if you're starving for an easy win in this shit life follow these easy steps. make beef stew, freeze what you don't eat, then reheat within the next few months, thawing in the fridge overnight, serving on fresh rice or mash. It was so fuckin good. Arguably better than when I made it fresh. What gives? Who knows, just keep in mind it pays to think about feeding future-you as much as hungry right now-you, you have a not-so-distant you to feel proud of for being so farsighted
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>>21401164 (OP)
>freeze what you don't eat
you're saying nonsense

>>21401205
one does not simply make 2-3 servings of beef stew, silly stupid anon. stewing can be rather time consuming

>>21401205
not everybody is fat

anyway yeah op I always have a couple portions of soup in the freezer to pull out for a lazy dinner. good stuff

Zoomers discovered leftovers everybody!

>>21401232
I can only hope
bit for real I'm just a severely depressed millennial taking any small victories he can get

>>21401164 (OP)
Everybody knows that stews get better every time you heat them up again.

>>21401251
This one time I had a 7 reheat stew, the time and effort to freeze it again after reheating each time was worth it.

>>21401254
you just freeze and reheat individual portions dumbo

>>21401164 (OP)
I love beef stew so much but I don’t think I’ve ever made it, did you use a recipe or wing it?

>>21402682
not OP but it's super easy to make. follow a recipe if you have no idea what you're doing, but it's simple. brown your beef, brown the vegetables you want, add some stock (not enough to make it a soup, just enough to braise everything). punch it up with any kind of flavour bombs you got - fresh herbs, wine, worcestershire, tomato paste, whatever. thicken it with a cornstarch or flour slurry. and of course, salt it along the way.

>>21401164 (OP)
you're better off making two serves, leaving half in the fridge and eating it for dinner twice in a row.

>>21402689
nah. having leftovers is good.

>>21402700
That is leftovers.

>>21402710
ok, but more leftovers. you can cook once, and get like 5-6 meals out of it. why wouldn't you? it doesn't work for all things, but beef stew actually heats up really well.

>>21401164 (OP)
You can stew me beef.

>>21402716
because I don't cook 10 serves at once?

>>21401212
>>21401220
Just eat it over the course of 3 days
>noo i can't eat the same food more than 2 days in a row
homosexual behavior

>>21402687
Ah cool, I’m going to finally make it then

>>21402726
good for you? but how are you "better off" making less? it's not any more difficult to make a bigger batch, you may as well just do it at once if you can.

>>21401205
this. i make a large pot, and like all good stews it gets better on the second day. no way is there anything left by the forth day.

>>21403110
This, beef stew is just too good it doesn't matter how much I make, I will eat all of it

>>21402756
>>21401212(me)
I meant what you and >>21402762 are saying, I CANT just make 2-3 serving I have to make 10 or more

>>21401254
holy shit what a fucking retard
>>21401986
exactly

I grew up with 'stew is just boiled beef, carrots, and potatoes' so how do you make it an actual gravy instead of shit?

>>21403369
Sear the beef. Drop onions in and saute, throw in some gaaaalic, make sure it's all salted. Add the longest cooking veg, pepper, more salt for those veggies, in goes a few bay leaves, maybe thyme, whatever else your little heart desires. Top with beef stock and simmer. Add next slow cooking veggies, and just let it slow cook. Beef used should be tougher and have connective tissue to thicken and enrich the sauce. Salt bit by bit as you add ingredients, adjusting to taste.

>>21403397
>>21402687
>thicken it with a cornstarch or flour slurry

>>21401986
Yeah, this is why God invented Ziploc(TM) brand baggies.
>make massive pot of split pea soup
>have a bowl or two while it's hot
>let the rest cool down
>portion it into baggies
>freeze
Now you can just pull out a frozen bag of soup and tear the bag off and put the block into a bowl, throw it into the microwave for a few minutes, stir, microwave it for a few more minutes, and wa-la

I just keep a bot of beef stew eternally going on my stovetop. Every day I feed the Beef Stew god an additional portion of beef and a potato, as well as holy spices and water. I giveth as I taketh. I have been doing this 3 years now. I dare not upset the gods by foregoing of my daily communion and offering lest the sun fail to rise tomorrow.

>>21402756
You don't even have to eat it two days in a row, you can eat it on like Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Anything you cook should last for a week.

>>21401164 (OP)
Just turned 6 or something? How are you actually alive? Why are you acting like this is esoteric knowledge to freeze things? Also, use glass, not plastic.

>>21404376
fire insurance won't cover stupidity, brother

>>21404487
no no I know about freezing food in general, I just was so surprised that reheated beef stew in particular tasted so good despite being frozen for so long
Thought I'd share in case any doofuses like me didn't know this

>>21401212
omg it's so time consuming. it's almost like making bread. I mean it takes hours. can't do anything else in the meantime. no, gotta watch the pot simmer, the dough rise and the paint dry. not all at once of course. one thing at the time

>>21404722
again you misunderstand. All I meant is it literally takes a few hours to make stew, so you might as well make a large batch. That's all. Dense motherfuckers

>>21404724
no, I didn't misunderstand. what you are saying makes no sense.

>>21404791
then explain how it makes no sense. all up did was call me whiny and impatient when that's the opposite of what I said.

>>21404793
you said one doesn't make small stews because it is so time consuming to do. this makes no sense at all because it's very little effort and takes very little time that you actually have to spend on it. a small stew is not wasted effort and time, because stews are inherently efficient in both time and effort

>>21404897
Retard, it's more efficient to batch cook a larger amount. There is no benefit whatsoever to making a smaller amount.

>>21404897
I've clarified multiple times that my intended meaning was
>you don't just make 2-3 servings a of stew because of how long it takes you might as well make a large batch
You're being retarded, have a nice day

>>21401164 (OP)
Protip: Portion out single servings into smaller bags when freezing. When you want some you just grab a bag instead of needing to re-heat the whole batch.

>>21402689
How the fuck are you only making two servings of beef stew, let alone one?

>>21405176
I have stew only, maybe with a couple pieces of bread. I usually make it with a can of tomato, can of beans, whatever beef type I'm using, onion, potatos and finish it with water & seasonings.

>>21404370
>few minutes
no way that's enough time

>>21406253
to be fair he said a few minutes twice. in the microwave, that's enough time for sure. I reheat in a pot which takes a bit of time to defrost.

>>21406253
theres not a huge difference between the defrost setting and just hitting 2-4 minutes on high (wattage depending)

>>21406259
oh, right. I literally stopped reading after the first "few minutes." I should be more careful.
I was thinking about how a can of soup takes like 3 minutes to heat up in the microwave, and even then it's still not that hot. so for frozen soup there wouldn't be a chance.