Bachelors and Frozen Food

Everyone knows, bachelors are not always the best when it comes to cooking. For many bachelors, frozen food is what gets them through many hungry nights.

Clarence Birdseye was the first to invent and commercialize a way to quick-freeze products without ruining the taste. His process is now a multi-billion industry if he was around today, he would be satisfied. Little did he know that he would satisfy the appetites of bachelors and frozen food for many years to come.

Clarence, born in 1886, and his family craved for fresh produce all year round. Clarence came up with the idea for freezing foods after watching how Eskimos froze fish and meat in barrels of quickly frozen water. Rapid freezing in extremely cold temperatures is what allowed the food to retain its flavor when it was later thawed for eating.

In 1923, Clarence invested $7 to purchase the supplies he would need to try out his process. These were no high-tech supplies, but an electric fan, ice cakes and brine. He went on to perfect the system using waxed cardboard boxes still used today, and high pressure flash freezing. Clarence sold his company to The Goldman-Sachs Trading Corporation and Postum (later General Foods) for $22 million in 1929. This is an great example of a wise investment. The public was first able to buy these flash frozen foods in 1930.

Clarence Birdseye was a man who loved to invent things that made the lives of others easier and more enjoyable. After his great success with flash frozen foods, he went on to other things that interested him and invented such well known objects as infrared heat lamps, spotlights and a whale marking harpoons. He had very diverse interests and was always busy creating something wonderful.

The next time you sit down to a bachelors frozen food meal made with frozen foods, think about Clarence Birdseye and his miraculous invention created from a mere $7.00 worth of materials.

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