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Sheldon Sheldon is offline
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Default Cooking frozen meatloaf without thawing???

On Feb 1, 10:35�am, wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:41:13 -0500, Karen AKA Kajikit
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> >On 31 Jan 2007 08:26:54 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:

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> >>On Jan 31, 10:51?am, "tomkanpa" > wrote:
> >>> How do I adjust the baking time and temperature for cooking frozen
> >>> meatloafs? They're all made and frozen raw.

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> >>You froze *raw* meat loafS... M O R O O N!

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> >>You're supposed to freeze cooked meat loaf, same as you freeze cooked
> >>meatballs. *Depending on ingredients you may need to shit can it, may
> >>not be safe.

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> >Don't be silly Sheldon. Of course you can freeze raw meatloaf. I used
> >to do it all the time - I'd make up about six pounds of rissoles and
> >I'd get tired of shaping them so I'd make the last third into a couple
> >of meatloaves to get the job over and done with.
> >Just put some liquid (stock, water, extra water in your tomato
> >sauce...) into the pan when you cook it so the steam can help it thaw
> >out (and to keep it from drying out during the longer cooking time)
> >and then cook it at a lower temperature for about an hour, then turn
> >the oven up to normal to finish the job.

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> *Yabbut if you have onions, bell peppers and the like in there then
> the cellular walls of the veggies will break down upon freezing (and
> especially thawing) and it'll taste a lot more shittier than it would
> have if you had frozen it cooked.
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> I haven't posted here for a couple of years but I do feel as though I
> need to back Sheldon up on this one. You just don't freeze raw
> meatloaf. The action of cooking it screws it up. It's perfectly fine
> to freeze a cooked meatloaf, lasagna, casserole etc..


True, but veggie cells rupturing is the least of it... many veggies
harbor botulism, eggs contain salmonella, ground meat itself contains
an abundance of pathogens all throughout... it's not food safe to
freeze raw meatloaf. And I'm not going to explain why because if no
one has gotten it by now no one will. There's a good reason all
prepared frozen dishes sold are already cooked, especially those
containing meat, most especially if it's ground meat... for the same
reason raw poultry isn't frozen prestuffed. It's not safe to leave
raw meatloaf refrigerated more than a few hours, same with stuffed
poultry, in fact a few hours is too long. Raw meatloaf needs to be
cooked immediately upon preparation, same for stuffed poultry, ANY
stuffed meat!

But of course the vast majority of RFC'ers should be banned from the
kitchen... few can even wash dishes safely... most are incapable of
properly wiping their butts (I think many actually lick their butts
clean). And from all this low carb palaver I'm 100% positive most
are too friggin' obese to reach their own butt... they gotta use a
garden hose with a right angle nozzle to douche... friggn' blobs know
all about food, that's how they got to be BLOBS! And from reading
this thread it's obvious that many lick each other's butts.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . .


Sheldon