Chicken

[4getmenot]

I bought a 4 pack of chicken fillets lastnight and stupid me popped them in freezer together when I should have wrapped them individually while I could separate them. This morning I tried taking one out to defrost and they are all frozen together. Is there any easy way of separating these without having to defrost the whole lot?

[crete]

you could a knife but be very careful or you will end up in A E dept.

[4getmenot]

Yer a knifes not doing it, neither is smacking them as hard as I can on kitchen top and neither is trying to snap them apart

[crete]

why not defrost all of them and have people round to dinner ?

[4getmenot]

No way, there all mine :-)

[crete]

well cook them all and have two tday and two tomorrow

[4getmenot]

Defies my point of buying loads to save money. I got two packs of 4. So I can eat one each week.

[crete]

put them back in the freezer and have beans on toast

[jiggy-gb]

lol crete, you like beans on toast don't you!

If you just hold the one you want under a running cold tap it will defrost just that one ever so slightly so you should be able to snap it away from the rest. Try running the water along the edges where it's joined to the others, don't worry, they'll be fine so long as you're quite quick about it.

[crete]

breans on toast solves most problems in life

[mccfluff]

bean on toast with a poached egg on top crete, that solves most problems in life

[mccfluff]

sorry 4getmenot, if you can't defrost the one, how about making a curry or something that you can refreeze into individual portions afterward

[jiggy-gb]

Cheesey beans with a good sprinkle of cayenne pepper, on toast, that solves many hangovers...

[crete]

no not ppached eggs too slippery and slimy

[natalie_1982]

Cheese and Lea and Perrins on toast with beans.

How about heat the knife so that it will defrost the bit you are trying to separate? Hold it over a boiling kettle and then start defrosting where the two breasts meet?

But be careful, you don't want a severed finger and sever burns, they won't know which part of the hospital to take you to.

[crete]

if not careful the chicken will be defrosted by the time all our suggestions have been tried

[4getmenot]

No I stuck it back in the freezer

[violetblue]

This happens to me all the time with my husband's beefburgers. What I do is get a knife between them and use a hammer to prise them apart. I don't know if it'll work with chicken fillets and I wouldn't advise it, but I'd try it and I know, impatience leads to accidents...There's a 70s advert in there somewhere...

[ugly_bob]

under the tap's the best way, then prising apart with a knife.
Incidentally, it's a lot easier to chop (for curries, stir frys etc) if it's still slightly frozen.

[beejaybee]

Defrost them all. Cook them all, & put the ones you don`t want back in the freezer. The other 3 will be ready cooked then. I do this all the time with sausages, chicken breasts, & I but big joints of meant & slice up what I don`t use, bag into individual portions & freeze. Saves a fortune on electricity.

[teag1rl]

I didnt think you were supposed to freeze, defrost and freeze again? But now I'm wondering if I imagined it?