Current Events > Ground beef that's been in my freezer for more than 2 years. Still safe?

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Would hate for this to go to waste tbh

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JACKBUTTMOMMY posted...

No.

Fuck.

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Sure, it works for taco bell

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Probably freezer burned

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no

don't keep anything in the freezer for more than 6-12 months

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probably safe if it was safe when it was put in the freezer and the freezer hasn't had any problems
as to whether it will taste good, that depends on how freezer-burnt it is
which will depend on the freezer and how it's stored
if it looks off-colored (generally whitish or otherwise paler than normal) it'll probably be gross, toss it
if it doesn't, go ahead and try it

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Ah the freezer burn alone. Also when thawed to cook it will try and eat itself faster than it thaws. Toss that shit!

I would try vacuumed sealed up to year and a half.

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Afaik, it's safe to eat pretty much as long as you can keep it frozen. It just loses "quality" after 6ish months.

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supposedly there's no real limit for it to be edible, but it'll likely not taste very good after about 6 months.

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it should be safe so long as it wasn't thawed, but it'll probably taste awful.

frankly, a pound of ground beef is what, 6 bucks?

I recently made chilli with a batch of beef that had been in my freezer for 12 years.

Tasted fine and nobody got sick.

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was it vacuum sealed?

It's fine, just probably not very good.

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As others have said, it will very likely be freezer burned (tastes horrible) after that long.

But it's still safe to eat, assuming you froze it before it went bad.

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NES4EVER posted...

I recently made chilli with a batch of beef that had been in my freezer for 12 years.

Tasted fine and nobody got sick.

You're crazy lol

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NES4EVER posted...

I recently made chilli with a batch of beef that had been in my freezer for 12 years.

Tasted fine and nobody got sick.

Not yet anyway.

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Strider102 posted...

Not yet anyway.

It was about a month ago so I'm pretty sure food poisoning would have happened by now lol. Plus I froze a bunch of it for lunches and I've had some of those too.

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It's safe. Maybe freezer burnt but you can do a lot of stuff with ground beef where that doesn't really matter.

But as with anything, trust your nose. If something smells like you shouldn't eat it then don't

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NES4EVER posted...

I recently made chilli with a batch of beef that had been in my freezer for 12 years.

Tasted fine and nobody got sick.

12 years?! How does that even happen lol

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NES4EVER posted...

I recently made chilli with a batch of beef that had been in my freezer for 12 years.

Tasted fine and nobody got sick.

Bruh

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NES4EVER posted...

I recently made chilli with a batch of beef that had been in my freezer for 12 years.

Tasted fine and nobody got sick.

12 years?! I thought I was pushing it when I had a ground beef in the freezer for 4!

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Depends on temperature of freezer. If it is properly cold and has stated properly cold, then the food would be safe for like forever.

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Josiah_Is_Back posted...

12 years?! How does that even happen lol

It was a 5lb chub of beef and I never needed 5lbs at the same time. I bought a bigger soup pot and finally had enough room to make a batch of chilli big enough for it.

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assuming it was kept at freezing temps the whole time, yes it should be edible still. dunno about the taste. i like to use older meat in more soups, chilies and stuff with a lot of other flavors at play.

NES4EVER posted...

I recently made chilli with a batch of beef that had been in my freezer for 12 years.

Tasted fine and nobody got sick.

How is meat staying in your guys freezers for years on end lol, do you just not eat meat often or something? I usually will get a few things of meat and then eat them before I get any other meat. And if I did happen to go to the store and realized I had meat in my freezer I would eat the frozen meat before the stuff I just bought.

e: Ah, that makes sense.

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Doom_Art posted...

Would hate for this to go to waste tbh

You will die if you eat it.

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no mold/bacteria is going to grow in frozen food, so its always going to be safe to eat. keep in mind that people have eaten mammoth meat that was frozen 30,000 years ago. its probably not going to taste very good though.

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thronedfire2 posted...

no

don't keep anything in the freezer for more than 6-12 months

Bro that's a wide ass range. Is it more than 6 or more than 12? Pick one.

Solid Snake07 posted...

Maybe freezer burnt but you can do a lot of stuff with ground beef where that doesn't really matter.

ehhhh, you never had really freezer-burnt meat?
it can definitely matter
ugh

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Badmotorfinger posted...

Bro that's a wide ass range. Is it more than 6 or more than 12? Pick one.

depends when it starts to get freezer burned

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thronedfire2 posted...

depends when it starts to get freezer burned

It also depends on the meat, right? Doesnt beef typically last longer in the freezer than other types of meat, with steak lasting longer than other cuts of beef?

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Naysaspace posted...

frankly, a pound of ground beef is what, 6 bucks?

around that price. it's about 5$ at safeway.

fresh ground beef is no substitutions it's so fucking good.
doesn't compare to frozen.
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Simp posted...

ehhhh, you never had really freezer-burnt meat?
it can definitely matter
ugh

Plenty of things you can do to cover it up. Chili, bolognese, taco meat etc. Wouldn't be good for burgers, but anything where you're simmering it in a sauce will be fine

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Plenty of things you can do to cover it up. Chili, bolognese, taco meat etc. Wouldn't be good for burgers, but anything where you're simmering it in a sauce will be fine

nah man, I got a freezer from like the 1980s atm
shit gets freezer-burnt pretty bad in a year, in 1 1/2-2 years the outer strands of ground meat can start to whiten and become dried-out and elasticky
even if you don't let it go that far, the taste can be quite noxious and will come out no matter how you try to prepare it
pls trust me, I hate throwing away food so I've eaten way too much freezer-burnt meat in my life
hopefully you would have a better freezer than me, but it can definitely go too far to be worth eating

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hell to the motherfuckin naw

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monkmith posted...

no mold/bacteria is going to grow in frozen food, so its always going to be safe to eat. keep in mind that people have eaten mammoth meat that was frozen 30,000 years ago. its probably not going to taste very good though.

Meat thats been in my freezer for 250,000 years. Still safe?

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/57100/time-250000-year-old-mammoth-was-served-dinner


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as most people said, it's safe but it's probably going to taste bad, the only way I think is still good is if it's been vacuum sealed

Yeah, I have never been somewhere where I didn't have atleast 1 power outage that made me keep the doors shut during a 1 year spand. Let alone 12 years lol.

I did make some 2 year old vacuumed sealed deer sausage chili that came out just fine. But damn.

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so, pretty much as this post was made, i had just made dinner with some frozen beef myself. bought maybe a week ago, frozen within a day, defrosted in the fridge. and wouldn't you fucking know it, i think it tried to kill me. something i've done a dozen times this year, the only difference was another half a day in the fridge defrosting.

but last night was fucking miserable, and it checked off pretty much every beef food poisoning box. still, better than the thought that the painkiller i took finally finished off a kidney.

but, damn, i was expecting to eat those leftovers for a few days.

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