We froze these chicken noodle soup a few months ago and my husband overfilled them (he says he didn't overfill them and filled them to the fill line and he wants you all to know that) so they shattered in the deep freeze. Would you still eat these? My thought is that maybe we just let it defrost enough to peel the glass off?
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No chance! There could be little shards of glass you can’t see. No way I would risk eating it.
I always freeze my soups in ziplock bags or plastic containers for this exact reason.
If this was broth I would full stop say yes because you can strain it out. Glass in chunky soup… pass. Your insides aren’t worth whatever that savings is gonna be. Just chunk it and move on. Freeze in ziplocks moving forward.
No. The risk of eating glass is too great for me. It’s not something you can filter either (if it was liquid like juice/wine, you could run it through a coffee filter or something.)
The regular jars with shoulders tend to do this. Freezer jars have straight sides to avoid this. Using specifically freezer jars is best. (Though I swear by vacuum sealing soup/stew in bags which can freeze flat and defrost quickly, even though the bags are not reusable)
>Would you still eat this?
No.
Broken glass? NEVER.
I prefer not eating glass, so no.
There are straight sided wide mouth jars which you can freeze in, they allow for expansion without breaking.
I would toss it.
I have never attempted to freeze anything liquid in a glass container for exactly this reason.
I have a 5 gallon glass jug in my back yard that probably had an inch and a half of water in it. Totally forgot to bring it in over winter. The bottom is totally blown out.
I don’t think this was a matter of the jars being overfilled, I thing it was just a poor choice of container for a liquid going into a freezer.
Depends. Do you like assassination by soup?
Absolutely not
Tell your husband he didn’t over fill them.
Just used the wrong jars
Your saving $5?
Nope. I’m not gonna risk eating/drinking glass shards.
You should definitely get some plastic containers if you plan to regularly freeze liquids like this. Water expands when it freezes and this is very common for glass jars in the freezer.