plastic meat wrap?

[steeliedrew]

I'm gonna be butchering my deer in a couple hours from now. I need to pick a few things up on the way home. One item being butcher paper, and the other being plastic meat wrap. (Don't know technical name). It seems like any time I've ever been given deer meat from a friend it's wrapped with a plastic wrap and then butcher paper over that.

maybe this is not needed? I'm thinking cash and carry may have something. please let me know what you guys do for packing meat to freeze. My chest freezer is not frost free so it tends not to freezer burn anything.

Thank you,

Drew

[Buckmark]

Saran wrap, plastic cling wrap...yeah thats the stuff...

[Bean Counter]

If you plan to kill stuff every year, a Food Saver is a nice investment. Maybe do this one the old fashioned way and keep an eye out on the Costco circulars. Both the units and the bags go on sale from time to time.

If I lived nearby id let you bring your deer over and use mine to try it out but you'd be in for a 50 hour round trip for where I live now

[steeliedrew]

haha. It was thicker than cling wrap. Does it not matter?

[Bean Counter]

Oh yeah, check the Bargain Cave at Cabelas regularly too.

[2labs]

Costco has the big yellow box with the built in cutter. Works a lot better than the stuff from the grocery store. Plastic wrap can have a mind of its own.

[Bean Counter]

I've used ziplock baggies before, in concert with butcher paper. I haven't used cling wrap. I'm guessing the idea is to keep air off the meat. I don't see why it wouldn't work. I would just use a lot and make sure it's tightly wrapped, several times over, and it still gets a generous application of butcher paper as well. If I could only have one id rather have the butcher paper.

[steeliedrew]

I have a food saver that I use when I'm filleting fish and packing them for freezing but I few like that's more work than needs to be done. I found some deer meat I had forgot I had. It sat in my chest freezer for 2 years wrapped in plastic and butcher paper and didn't have any sign of freezer burn or anything. The key I think is having the right kind of freezer, not a frost free one.

[2labs]

Sorry, I just meant it worked better as in ease of application. I think plastic wrap is probably all the same.

[Bulldozer77]

I would definitely use the plastic wrap and butcher paper, or double wrap it in butcher paper. In my experience, single wrap in butcher paper will get freezer burnt.

[James E]

plastic bags, or saran wrap will work. make sure you get all the air out and you will be good.

[muzbuster]

I would go to Cash & Carry,  Im sure they have what you are looking for.

[deltaops]

If you plan on eating the meat in a short period of time, butcher paper over plastic wrap should be fine. When I processed my meat from last year, I used butcher paper on the steaks I was going to eat within a month and vacuumed sealed the rest.

When you get the funds to do so, invest in a good vacuum sealer. We use ours all the time when we buy other meat on sale in bulk. 

[HORSEPOWER]

I have a vacuum sealer but I still use Costco's poly vinyl film or Zip lock freezer bags under the butcher paper more often. 

[sirmissalot]

 

I vacuum seal everything.