freezer burned foods. food waste.

[Darth-Baiter]

so gross!!

 

i'.ve been cooking huge meals so i can have extras to feed some senior citizen ladies on my block.  fun, and makes me feel good.  i like it.

 

but...one of the ladies has taken to cleaning out the deep freeze and bringing me meats.  i cannot begin to describe the colors of some of this stuff.  hahahh..grays, greens.  

 

i put it into my freezer and toss it all on garbage day.  what a waste.  i am so careful not to make anyone sick.  it would kill me to food poison some senior.   wow.  she is kinda clueless, so i just fake it.  i take it graciously and toss it.  they never properly wrapped the stuff.  

 

makes me wonder how much food we waste.?  i sometimes buy too much and have to regrettable toss it as well.  i am not without sin on this one.  

[gim]

Freezer burned food is not going to make you sick.  Its not harboring any pathogens or bacteria.  It will simply taste bad.  And look bad in appearance.

 

A food saver vacuum sealer can mitigate this.  Its the air in food packaging that causes freezer burn.  Get rid of the air and freezer burn can't occur.  I use mine primarily for wild game/birds that I hunt, and fish filets.  I am not stockpiling my freezer with a mountain of food in preparation for the apocalypse.  There is is enough in there for about a month or so.  If you have food in there for years on end, its going to go bad.  Its probably mutated into a completely new life form if its in there for a long period of time.

[Choporoz]

6 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

 makes me wonder how much food we waste.? .  

Staggering amounts...I think I read recently....more than the equivalent of 100 million meals...per day....just in the US

[TnRiver46]

Bout 40% of food is wasted, good for the critter business 

[Darth-Baiter]

53 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Freezer burned food is not going to make you sick.  Its not harboring any pathogens or bacteria.  It will simply taste bad.  And look bad in appearance.

 

A food saver vacuum sealer can mitigate this.  Its the air in food packaging that causes freezer burn.  Get rid of the air and freezer burn can't occur.  I use mine primarily for wild game/birds that I hunt, and fish filets.  I am not stockpiling my freezer with a mountain of food in preparation for the apocalypse.  There is is enough in there for about a month or so.  If you have food in there for years on end, its going to go bad.  Its probably mutated into a completely new life form if its in there for a long period of time.

I understand that.  But it speaks to the general food handling.  

[throttleplate]

My frozen pizzas are frozen over inside the package. Still taste good a year later.

[TnRiver46]

I’ve eaten some freezer burned food, sometimes you just have to embrace the suck, it’s better than throwing it away and not eating. like ripped up jeans, it’s a minor starvation badge 

[TOXIC]

We just got a 1/4 of beef that my daughter raised and had butchered.  All shrink wrapped and we bought a separate freezer just for it.  Bottom rack is for ground only, the rest is filled with steaks, roasts, brisket, etc.  I have used a vacuum sealer for crappie and I have also done it the old redneck way of freezing it in water to keep it from burning. 

[Bird]

We butcher a half a beef every other year and I usually shoot a deer.

Everything gets vacuum sealed and if a package ends up breaking a seal, you'll find it.

I really despise to waste food but if someone brought over freezer burnt meat, it would promptly get tossed and like you, I'd keep it to myself.

[TnRiver46]

Just now, TOXIC said:

We just got a 1/4 of beef that my daughter raised and had butchered.  All shrink wrapped and we bought a separate freezer just for it.  Bottom rack is for ground only, the rest is filled with steaks, roasts, brisket, etc.  I have used a vacuum sealer for crappie and I have also done it the old redneck way of freezing it in water to keep it from burning. 

Holy beef Batman when is supper???!!!

 

when my friends kill a deer we wrap with plastic and then butcher paper, worked better than vacuum seal. I have a vacuum sealer I got for Christmas but the bags cost more than food 

Just now, Bird said:

We butcher a half a beef every other year and I usually shoot a deer.

Everything gets vacuum sealed and if a package ends up breaking a seal, you'll find it.

I really despise to waste food but if someone brought over freezer burnt meat, it would promptly get tossed and like you, I'd keep it to myself.

Try Saran wrap then butcher paper instead, we like it way better 

[Darth-Baiter]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

 

Try Saran wrap then butcher paper instead, we like it way better 

i do this.  two layers of cling wrap, and into zipper type bags with as much air as i can squeeze out.

 

i must buy crap vacuum bags because i always seem to get leaks when the ice crystals stab holes.  maybe if cling wrap first.  

[casts_by_fly]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Holy beef Batman when is supper???!!!

 

when my friends kill a deer we wrap with plastic and then butcher paper, worked better than vacuum seal. I have a vacuum sealer I got for Christmas but the bags cost more than food 

Try Saran wrap then butcher paper instead, we like it way better 

 

1 minute ago, Darth-Baiter said:

i do this.  two layers of cling wrap, and into zipper type bags with as much air as i can squeeze out.

 

i must buy crap vacuum bags because i always seem to get leaks when the ice crystals stab holes.  maybe if cling wrap first.  

 

 

If you're going to vacuum seal, don't by bags.  Buy the rolls.  WAY cheaper and make them whatever size you want (that you machine can handle).

[TnRiver46]

Just now, casts_by_fly said:

 

 

 

If you're going to vacuum seal, don't by bags.  Buy the rolls.  WAY cheaper and make them whatever size you want (that you machine can handle).

I used up a roll pretty quick with white bass, and the roll was like $40. My new strategy is small ziplocks, eat it faster and keep less, always give you an excuse to fish more often 

[casts_by_fly]

38 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I used up a roll pretty quick with white bass, and the roll was like $40. My new strategy is small ziplocks, eat it faster and keep less, always give you an excuse to fish more often 

 

I don't keep fish very often and I never freeze fresh caught fish.  Its too tasty to eat them fresh, so I only keep what I have a plan to eat in the next week.

[TnRiver46]

5 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

I don't keep fish very often and I never freeze fresh caught fish.  Its too tasty to eat them fresh, so I only keep what I have a plan to eat in the next week.

When I turned 18 and moved out on my own, I was kind of obsessed with catching and freezing fish and avoided groceries. Now I’ve learned. I still freeze some but not for long 

 

Now the deer I have kept a while and the trick I mentioned above works for a long time 

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve eaten some freezer burned food, sometimes you just have to embrace the suck, it’s better than throwing it away and not eating. like ripped up jeans, it’s a minor starvation badge 

Ripped jeans, minor starvation badge….if that’s the case we need to send food to a certain member from Indiana right away! He doesn’t have much time left! ?

[TnRiver46]

13 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Ripped jeans, minor starvation badge….if that’s the case we need to send food to a certain member from Indiana right away! He doesn’t have much time left! ?

He’s pretty skinny! 
 

I had an old man customer that called my jeans starvation badges a long time ago, cracked me up 

[TOXIC]

2 hours ago, throttleplate said:

My frozen pizzas are frozen over inside the package. Still taste good a year later.

Are you sure you’re not eating the box??

[TnRiver46]

35 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

Are you sure you’re not eating the box??

“Pine bark never bitter to hungry squirrel”

[Way north bass guy]

I just found some venison in the bottom of our freezer a few weeks ago that was “of older vintage”. Still good, just not as fresh as last falls meat. It went into one of the finest venison stews I’ve had in a while. 

[Jar11591]

7 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I’ve eaten some freezer burned food, sometimes you just have to embrace the suck, it’s better than throwing it away and not eating. like ripped up jeans, it’s a minor starvation badge 

Amen

[Jmontgomery87]

I still have some trout from last spring I need to finish up. I just use freezer bags and squeeze out as much air as I can. It works ok for 6-12 months but I'm going to switch to plastic wrap and butcher paper this fall for waterfowl, squirrel, and, hopefully, a deer.