what is "freezer taste"?

[eub]

There's a characteristic taste that everything stored in a freezer takes on, no matter what the food is itself. What is that taste?

• cryophilic microbiological flora
  
• plasticizer in freezer door gasket material
  
• actually not a foreign addition, but characteristic of freeze-drying
  

Comments

[caladri.livejournal.com]

In some food it's cell rupture and the subsequent separation of water (and ice crystals) from their normally-associated flavor agents. I don't know what it is for all food, though obviously the effect is at least similar for most food.

[eub.livejournal.com]

ice cubes get it. ice cubes.