Freezing changes the enzymes so it decomposes faster. People also do this with food destined for the compost bin. At least this is how I understand it .

I freeze stuff so my garbage does not smell up the kitchen. When I'm ready to take trash out to the bin in the alley, I harvest from the freezer. But this is food that has been processed and we just didn't eat it all before I was tired of that particular dish.

Freezing does accelerate the decomposition process but the reason i freeze my food scraps is to prevent fruit flyes in the worm bin, freezing seems to kill off their eggs, once you have a fruit fly problem in an indoor bin freezing is worth it to prevent it from happening again.

Jon B. took the words right out of my mouth.

You won't need to reserve much space in your freezer. Just put in what you can, give it long enough to freeze completely through, then pull it out and shove the next load of scraps in. You could do a little each night overnight, would that be a problem?

I guess Im not in the elite as I dont froze the worm food persay, but after saying that I do freeze watermelon rinds only as a good place to store it while waiting to feed it to them. On the other part I save my worm food in plastic or ziplock bags until I have enough to run thru my juicer then save that pulp in another container until they need some food.

On another issue just incase anyone is interested I find that the factory 360 to be much more efficient than my homemade plastic. The thing most notable is the breeding volume is much more noticable of the volume of worms in it. Im not sorry of the price I paid for it. Having enough vermicompost for both myself and my sisters garden needs is the payoff. I share with her since she helps supplying me with "worm food".

i just freeze the pulps from my juicer in an ice tray and feed that off whenever i need to.

Well you don't even have to freeze it, it's just helpful and we're explaining why it's done. I don't freeze my scraps. Don't worry much about carbon to nitrogen ratios, either. And I'm considering leaving the tape on the load of cardboard boxes I just now picked up, and just picking the tape strands out of the compost next year, it'll be easier.

The fact is, everything organic* will rot. Even boot leather and rubber break down eventually. You can try to tweak for optimum breakdown speed or best nutrient value, but it all goes back to dirt in the end, even if you don't do anything at all. Don't worry about being one of the "elite". Just do what works for your situation and needs.

*:By organic I don't mean the picky health food store definition. I mean anything that was once alive or was produced by the biological processes of a living thing.

yup, i know that i don't have to freeze it. I just do because i don't want to throw everything in there all at once since i don't have that many worms to eat everything up all at once yet. so it's just my way of saving food for later.

Because Bently said so. It prebreaks down the cells of the food making it available. I think he intended for only a 24 hour freeze. This way the food releases the perfect amount of water to moisten perfectly the perfect amount of bedding needed for perfect vermicomposting to happen.