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[Purplemaniacs]

As I have started my Easter holiday today I thought I would sort out the freezer.

 

How long can I keep joints of meat for, I have some lovely joints of lamb from last summer are they still ok to eat? There are also some beef and gammon joints.

 

Also meals that I have cooked myself and then frozen how long will they keep for?

 

Thanks.

 

Chrissie

[sage]

Hi

Not sure how long you can keep meat for but I'm a believer if it looks Ok and smells Ok I eat it.

 

Sage

[Leicester_H]

Hi

Not sure how long you can keep meat for but I'm a believer if it looks Ok and smells Ok I eat it.

Sage

 

I second that. If it looks & smells OK, I'd use it ASAP as the texture is likely to have deteriorated a bit with time.

 

I hate waste - especially food waste - and extra especially meat waste.

 

H

[majorbloodnock]

It depends on the star rating of your freezer. Most these days have one that looks like [*[***], and that means it has a minimum temperature of -18degC and that both prefrozen and frozen-from-fresh food can be kept for a maximum of 3-12 months. In practice, so long as the meat was perfectly fresh when you first froze it, up to a year should be fine so long as, once defrosted, it passes the aforementioned look and smell tests. However, if your freezer has a lesser star rating, maximum times could be dramatically reduced, so best to check - it should be displayed reasonably prominently, but if not then a quick trawl on t'interweb should tell you.

[kinsk]

Pretty much forever is how I've been brought up, and never been ill yet :touchwood: as long as it's a proper freezer and not just an ice box, the worst that can happen is 'freezer burn' the texture, appearance and taste may have deteriorated but from a health, food poisoning aspect no more likely than if you'd eaten it the day you put it in the freezer.

[LolaLayla]

If you leave things in longer than recommended, like others have said, it is the appearance that can start to look a bit odd but you should be ok with regards it still being ok to eat.

[merlina]

My mother firmly believed that frozen things never ever went off.

She also seemed to believe that only things which had been stored in the freezer for a very long time were eligible for eating.

So we regularly ate things that were many many many years old. After she died I found things from the 1970s in her freezer (40 year old arctic roll anyone?! )

Advanced freezer burn doesn't taste nice, but it won't, as others have said, cause you any harm

 

I have developed a suspicion of frozen food from this life experience, but never food poisoning. I'm sure your meat will be fine

Edited April 4, 2013 by Guest

[Eggasperated]

My dad grew all our vegetables, however we very rarely tasted anything fresh from the garden as mum always had a freezer full of his vegetables going back several years which we had to eat first .