THAWED MEAT

Lass Chance_2 said:

uh....what's the horrible thing that's supposed to happen if you
re-freeze thawed meat?

It tastes like [censored] and the texture is like eating sweat socks and dirty
underwear all folded together.

Cellular destruction guarantees that the intercellular fluids will leak.
It's called purge.

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Imagine my delight when I went to take a steak out of the freezer and
discovered the freezer had DIED and about 300 bucks worth of meat
was thawed! Some of it was still partially frozen....all of it was
cold, at least.....so, I dumped it all into the other
frideg/freezer...crammed it in there.

Is it safe to eat? Every piece is in it's own plastic sealed
wrap.....

Probably. If it was refrigerator temp or lower.

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One box of flounder filets was totally thawed....so, Im going to be
eating fish for the next few days. One giant bag of shrimp was
totally thawed, too----can you say, "World's BIGGEST shrimp
cocktail"?

Fish has an additional issue, for future reference. Refreezing it messes
with the protein bonds and it loses moisture, too, even more that meats.
But it also forms unpleasant protein structures that feel spongy when
eaten no matter how prepared.

Pastorio

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(Lass Chance_2) said:

uh....what's the horrible thing that's supposed to happen if you
re-freeze thawed meat?

Imagine my delight when I went to take a steak out of the freezer and
discovered the freezer had DIED and about 300 bucks worth of meat was
thawed! Some of it was still partially frozen....all of it was cold, at
least.....so, I dumped it all into the other frideg/freezer...crammed
it in there.

Is it safe to eat? Every piece is in it's own plastic sealed wrap.....

I do it all the time when I buy those big 5 lb. bags of frozen chicken
hindquarters. I have to thaw them to re-package them.

And you say some of the meat was still partially frozen.

Sometimes the texture suffers, but it's safe. :-)

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One box of flounder filets was totally thawed....so, Im going to be
eating fish for the next few days. One giant bag of shrimp was totally
thawed, too----can you say, "World's BIGGEST shrimp cocktail"?

Awwww, break my heart. ;-) Just give me an excuse to pig out on
shrimp!!!!

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Man....you can tell Mercury is in retrograde....everything that can go
wrong,,,,is going wrong.

Condolences!

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jeeeeez.

LassChance~
5-16-05 202/182/162

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(Lass Chance_2) said:

uh....what's the horrible thing that's supposed to happen if you
re-freeze thawed meat?

If it hasn't been thawed long enough to start going bad, then it's just
texture and flavor that may suffer, to the best of my knowledge.

Priscilla
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"Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what
the hell happened." -- Cora Harvey Armstrong

Lass Chance_2 said:

uh....what's the horrible thing that's supposed to happen if you
re-freeze thawed meat?

Imagine my delight when I went to take a steak out of the freezer and
discovered the freezer had DIED and about 300 bucks worth of meat was
thawed! Some of it was still partially frozen....all of it was cold,
at least.....so, I dumped it all into the other
frideg/freezer...crammed it in there.

Is it safe to eat? Every piece is in it's own plastic sealed wrap.....

One box of flounder filets was totally thawed....so, Im going to be
eating fish for the next few days. One giant bag of shrimp was
totally thawed, too----can you say, "World's BIGGEST shrimp cocktail"?

Man....you can tell Mercury is in retrograde....everything that can go
wrong,,,,is going wrong.

jeeeeez.

LassChance~
5-16-05 202/182/162

Say what? I thought the retrograde was finished on aug. 14th or the 15th.
Monica

PS: What everyone else said on the re-freezing. 😉
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Sorry to hear about that. Taste and texture will suffer, but if it was all
cold, it should be safe. Crossing my fingers it won't be too bad!

I can't imagine having $300 of food in a freezer. But I live in Florida,
where during hurricane season, we never keep more than $20 worth of food in
the freezer at a time. (When we see an ugly spiral forming out in the ocean,
we start eating that $20 worth right away!)

Just last week ground beef went on sale, at the best prices I've seen in a
couple of years, with the convenient 1 lb packages at the same sale price as
the big family packs, so I wouldn't even have to separate the meat into
meal-sized portions.

My first thought: "I should stock up!"

My second thought: "No way, it's August."

OTOH, we have stacks and stacks of canned goods, bottled water, batteries...
:-)

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Quoted message said:

uh....what's the horrible thing that's supposed to happen if you
re-freeze thawed meat?

Imagine my delight when I went to take a steak out of the freezer and
discovered the freezer had DIED and about 300 bucks worth of meat was
thawed! Some of it was still partially frozen....all of it was cold, at
least.....so, I dumped it all into the other frideg/freezer...crammed
it in there.

Is it safe to eat? Every piece is in it's own plastic sealed wrap.....

One box of flounder filets was totally thawed....so, Im going to be
eating fish for the next few days. One giant bag of shrimp was totally
thawed, too----can you say, "World's BIGGEST shrimp cocktail"?

Man....you can tell Mercury is in retrograde....everything that can go
wrong,,,,is going wrong.

jeeeeez.

LassChance~
5-16-05 202/182/162

I would buy a generator if we had that many outages. We lost power for
about 24 hours in the big blackout of 2003, I didn't open the freezers or
refrigerator and everything was fine, some of the frozen stuff was starting
to get a little soft around the edges by the time it came back on, we had a
heat wave at the same time as the blackout. It actually helps to have them
as full as possible, more cold mass to absorb the heat. That was the
longest we have ever been without power at this house (almost 23 years).

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Laura <[email hidden]> stated
| Sorry to hear about that. Taste and texture will suffer, but if it
| was all cold, it should be safe. Crossing my fingers it won't be too
| bad!
|
| I can't imagine having $300 of food in a freezer. But I live in
| Florida, where during hurricane season, we never keep more than $20
| worth of food in the freezer at a time. (When we see an ugly spiral
| forming out in the ocean, we start eating that $20 worth right away!)
|
| Just last week ground beef went on sale, at the best prices I've seen
| in a couple of years, with the convenient 1 lb packages at the same
| sale price as the big family packs, so I wouldn't even have to
| separate the meat into meal-sized portions.
|
| My first thought: "I should stock up!"
|
| My second thought: "No way, it's August."
|
| OTOH, we have stacks and stacks of canned goods, bottled water,
| batteries... :-)
|
|

Laura---normally, I wouldnt have that much meat on hand, either---I
bought one of those "year's worth of meat" deals from a company called
Magic Chef or something like that.....what can I say. it seemed like a
good idea at the time, LOL....but I wont do it again. Their pork is
excellent, the fish, too... but the beef was dissapointing.

Ya live...ya learn.

LassChance~
5-16-05 202/182/162

We've thought of it, believe me. Especially when the power was out for 4
days after Opal in 1995!

But dealing with the food situation is not that big a deal, usually. And
you're right - a *full* freezer will keep stuff frozen for 24 hours or so.
We partially fill water jugs and stick them in the freezer ahead of
hurricanes for that very reason.

What I really miss during a power outage is A/C (it is always hot as heck
the week after a hurricane), and you can't run *that* off a generator - at
least not one we can afford.

Used to be you couldn't get ice for love or money after a hurricane, but the
disaster folks have had so much practice lately that it's easy to get, so
you can at least have a cool drink. Unless your area is totally devastated,
of course. If I even think things might get that bad, I''ll evacuate ahead
of time. (I've got my kids' safety to think of, too.)

But if I had a well for water, I'd definitely have a generator to run the
pump. City water still works even when the power's out. Sometimes the city
recommends boiling it for drinking/cooking after a storm, but you can still
take a shower. Being without power's not too bad, but not being able to take
a shower for several days is really unpleasant. I know - when I was growing
up, my parents had a well, but not a generator. :-)

Laura

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Quoted message said:

I would buy a generator if we had that many outages. We lost power for
about 24 hours in the big blackout of 2003, I didn't open the freezers or
refrigerator and everything was fine, some of the frozen stuff was
starting
to get a little soft around the edges by the time it came back on, we had
a
heat wave at the same time as the blackout. It actually helps to have
them
as full as possible, more cold mass to absorb the heat. That was the
longest we have ever been without power at this house (almost 23 years).

In news:[email hidden],
Laura <[email hidden]> stated
| Sorry to hear about that. Taste and texture will suffer, but if it
| was all cold, it should be safe. Crossing my fingers it won't be too
| bad!
|
| I can't imagine having $300 of food in a freezer. But I live in
| Florida, where during hurricane season, we never keep more than $20
| worth of food in the freezer at a time. (When we see an ugly spiral
| forming out in the ocean, we start eating that $20 worth right away!)
|
| Just last week ground beef went on sale, at the best prices I've seen
| in a couple of years, with the convenient 1 lb packages at the same
| sale price as the big family packs, so I wouldn't even have to
| separate the meat into meal-sized portions.
|
| My first thought: "I should stock up!"
|
| My second thought: "No way, it's August."
|
| OTOH, we have stacks and stacks of canned goods, bottled water,
| batteries... :-)
|
|

That was a big shock to me when we had the big blackout. It also affected
the water pumps and we immediately lost water pressure. Fortunately we
still had our Y2K big jugs of water to use for flushing and the water was
restored by the next morning. We also had some drinking water on hand and I
have a gas stove so was able to have my morning coffee.

With a generator you could at least run fans, they actually are a lot of
help in the heat. I know I really missed our ceiling fan the night the
power was out.

In news:[email hidden],
Laura <[email hidden]> stated
| We've thought of it, believe me. Especially when the power was out
| for 4 days after Opal in 1995!
|
| But dealing with the food situation is not that big a deal, usually.
| And you're right - a *full* freezer will keep stuff frozen for 24
| hours or so. We partially fill water jugs and stick them in the
| freezer ahead of hurricanes for that very reason.
|
| What I really miss during a power outage is A/C (it is always hot as
| heck the week after a hurricane), and you can't run *that* off a
| generator - at least not one we can afford.
|
| Used to be you couldn't get ice for love or money after a hurricane,
| but the disaster folks have had so much practice lately that it's
| easy to get, so you can at least have a cool drink. Unless your area
| is totally devastated, of course. If I even think things might get
| that bad, I''ll evacuate ahead of time. (I've got my kids' safety to
| think of, too.)
|
| But if I had a well for water, I'd definitely have a generator to run
| the pump. City water still works even when the power's out. Sometimes
| the city recommends boiling it for drinking/cooking after a storm,
| but you can still take a shower. Being without power's not too bad,
| but not being able to take a shower for several days is really
| unpleasant. I know - when I was growing up, my parents had a well,
| but not a generator. :-)
|
| Laura
|
|

Ive never been in a hurricaine...and dont much want to. It must be
terrifying.

We lose power very now and then when it snows hard. I have a propane
heater for "back-up", in case.

If Id have known the stupid freezer had died, I would have taken the
still frozen meat, put it in a plastic laundry basket and submerged it
all in the stream---the water temp is about 45 degrees, summer and
winter.

That would have kept it from thawing completely while giving me a day to
fix or get another freezer... oh well.

It's amazing how we adapt to whatever weather conditions we have to--
but I think a real hurricaine would be a major trauma. A bad lightning
storm freaks me out, LOL.

Lass

I've lived in hurricane country all my life. Except for the really nasty
ones (category 3+), a hurricane's just a lot of thunderstorms, plus a few
extra inconveniences. And, since I grew up here where we have afternoon
thunderstorms every couple of days during the summer anyway, I actually
enjoy a good thunderstorm. :-)

And you have plenty of warning when a hurricane is coming, so you can
prepare - or leave. Tornadoes or earthquakes seem a lot more frightening to
me, since you get little or no warning. Boom, your house is gone, or you're
dead, just like that. (shudder)

As you say, it's all a matter of what you are used to.

The really bad storms are a different matter.

Here's some of what Ivan did last September:
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/guides/hurricane/galleries.shtml

I'm 100 miles away from where Ivan made landfall, and several miles from the
beach, and it still blew shingles off my roof and knocked down part of my
privacy fence. Even this far away, so many roofs were damaged that some
people are just *now* getting their roofs replaced from Ivan damage. The
neighbors across the street from me are still waiting - they finally just
nailed the tarp to their roof. (It's been a very profitable year for
roofers!)

Yet, it's amazing how some people in the path of a storm like that won't
leave, even though they live right on the water. When they won't evacuate,
the police go out and ask for their name how to contact their next of kin
after the storm. (Yes, they really do that!) Usually that's effective in
waking people up to reality, but not always.

BTW, my mom would agree with you. Even though she's lived here all her life,
too, she's still afraid of lightning. I remember being a kid and wanting to
go out on the front porch to watch thunderstorms, and she'd be freaking out
and demanding we stay inside, away from the windows, telephones, TV, light
switches... :-)

Lass, have you used any of the re-frozen meat? Was it OK?

Laura

"Lass Chance_2" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Ive never been in a hurricaine...and dont much want to. It must be
terrifying.

We lose power very now and then when it snows hard. I have a propane
heater for "back-up", in case.

If Id have known the stupid freezer had died, I would have taken the
still frozen meat, put it in a plastic laundry basket and submerged it
all in the stream---the water temp is about 45 degrees, summer and
winter.

That would have kept it from thawing completely while giving me a day to
fix or get another freezer... oh well.

It's amazing how we adapt to whatever weather conditions we have to--
but I think a real hurricaine would be a major trauma. A bad lightning
storm freaks me out, LOL.

Lass