Can You Freeze String Cheese?

What happens when you freeze string cheese

USDA’s dataset carries no freezer window for string cheese at all, only 5 months in the fridge from purchase, so what follows is a quality call rather than a safety one. Low-moisture mozzarella is the kind of cheese that freezes best: little free water, plenty of fat, a firm body. Thawed sticks are a shade drier and peel into thicker strands than they did new, which is the sort of thing adults notice and children never do. Under heat they melt as if nothing happened.

How to freeze it right

1. Freeze the sticks sealed in their original wrappers.
2. Drop the wrapped sticks into a freezer bag and press the air out.
3. Freeze them fresh, well inside the fridge window — not on the last day.
4. Date the bag.

Thawing and using it

Thaw overnight in the fridge for snacking, or pack a frozen stick straight into a lunchbox, where it keeps the rest of the bag cold and softens by lunchtime. Anything headed for heat — quesadillas, pizza, breaded cheese sticks — can go in still frozen.

Can you refreeze it?

Refreezing a fridge-thawed stick is safe and barely shows, since the wrapper keeps it from drying out. Even so, each stick is a single serving: take out what will actually be eaten.