FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - How old is too old? Deep freezer has 3 yr old turkey, roasts a d stuflike cheap pizza and frozen soups , should i chuck it all and start over?

SNAG

On 3/5/2021 4:39 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 3/5/2021 11:56 AM, Snag wrote:
>> On 3/5/2021 1:09 PM, wrote:
>>> On Friday, March 5, 2021 at 6:41:03 AM UTC-6, Taxed and Spent wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 3/4/2021 5:39 PM, wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 6:50:52 PM UTC-6, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had two year old meat that was perfect in a vacuum sealed bag.
>>>>>> If in
>>>>>> doubt, throw it out
>>>>>>
>>>>> I've got you beat. I cooked a roast last month that was about 9
>>>>> years old.
>>>>> It was well sealed in a vacuum bag, with no ice crystals or freezer
>>>>> burn. It
>>>>> was delicious.
>>>>>
>>>> I have you beat. I cooked a shrunk wrapped duck that was at least 20
>>>> years old. The skin and fat was very peppery, not rancid. So that got
>>>> tossed. But the meat was still perfectly succulent.
>>>>
>>> Ok, You get the prize.Â* Now we just have to figure out what the prize
>>> will
>>> be.
>>> )
>>>
>>
>> Â*Â*Â* Well shit if we're shooting for who's eaten the oldestÂ* , in 1972 I
>> ate a steak that was frozen for our troops in 1944 . It came from the
>> officer's mess freezer aboard the USS Eversole while cruising off the
>> coast of Vietnam . I was working with the night cook (my "day job" was
>> electrician when not on mess cook duty) , making all the bread and other
>> baked goodies for a crew of around 300 . Probably where I got my love of
>> baking breads ...
>>
>
> How was the steak?Â* How many were there?

There were a couple of big boxes IIRC - this was nearly 50 years ago
.. And it wasn't all that great , mostly because the cook I worked with
was a pepper freak .
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Snag
In 1775, the British demanded we give them our guns.
We shot them