When the weather is hot outside i use the porch plant cages as a makeshift counter to thaw things from the refrigerator or freezer. Chickpea Flour and melted vegan butter into a ziploc freezer bag…quail and quail blood straight into bag…add a little bit of soy sauce…onto the parchment paper. No bowl was used to mix. No cookie sheet was dirtied in the process. I dont have to wash any dishes. My cooking style is “ziploc”, lol.
Does the thawing stuff attract any unwanted attention from “critters”?
It hasnt yet but it very well could. Im mostly worried about raccoons. I usually try to put stuff out in broad daylight while the nocturnal critters are sleeping and i open the window curtains so i can watch it. Nothing has made an attempt yet. Although i used to thaw stuff on the porch railing and now use the metal garden cage because ants will crawl on the packaging if you do leave it on a wood surface.
I told a friend of mine that was having raccoon problems, “If you have to use locks to keep raccoons out, use a combination lock. If you use a key lock, I think the raccoons will get out a set of lock picks and open the lock.” 🙂
They are the only mammal i would not feel guilty about dispatching. People think they’re cute because they look like bandits with the natural face mask about the eyes but they are a combination of crafty, determined, self involved, and homicidal that together puts them at the top of my shit list. I hate raccoons. With a capital H, because they’re in everything and even if there’s no possible way they can obtain the thing, they will make sure you cant use it. Example: if they cant get the chickens through the bars they will just put their little hands through, break all their necks, and run off to eat something else.