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When do you throw out beef in your freezer? Steaks, burgers, roasts, etc.
Is 2 years too old? 4? 8?
I'll keep it up to 10 years cause I usually get new in before then. I've been given(free or they are going in the trash) 8 year old steaks that are just fine.
Just curious on your opinion and has it changed due to the cost of food.
Depends on how it's been stored. Everything we seal in foodsaver bags is good for years. I would never have anything in my freezer for 10 years, so I don't know.
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Depends on how it's been stored. Everything we seal in foodsaver bags is good for years. I would never have anything in my freezer for 10 years, so I don't know.
This. Something prepped/packaged carelessly and frozen for just a few months might be terrible compared to the same thing prepped/packaged carefully and frozen for 2 years.
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Depends on how it's been stored. Everything we seal in foodsaver bags is good for years. I would never have anything in my freezer for 10 years, so I don't know.
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not spoiled as to be dangerous to eat? No issues.
tasty to eat? depends how you prepared it. Maybe use this meat as a soup base?
Dry aged beef is 6-12 months is delicious and once you've had a dry-aged beef, you'd wonder how you even eat American beef.
I never have that much meat in my freezer. I use every bit and never let it sit in my freezer more than a few months before cooking it. But then again I live in a town where I have Access to grocery stores less than a 10 minute drive. It's only 2 of us and I buy enough meat for the week. I do weekly shopping. I can't see having a freezer chest full of meat to last me months it's way to much.
If meat is properly wrapped to exclude air, and frozen at deep temperatures in a freezer that stays frozen and doesn't have an automatic defrost, it might very well be good indefinitely. Frozen wooly mammoths have been eaten and nothing in your home freezer will ever be anywhere near that old.
If you put meat into your house refrigerator/ freezer with automatic defrost, it probably should be eaten within 6 months. It won't be dangerous to eat, but it will lose quality.
My family has eaten elk that was frozen for 8 years in my chest freezer and the meat was just as good as new. I cooked 5 year old pork chops this week and they were no different than if I'd bought them at the store the day before.
Years??? Mine go maybe a month or two and that's pushing it
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