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How do youu freeze your ground meat?

In rolls in paper
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Flat in bags
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Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« on: February 19, 2017, 11:01:33 AM »


We store all of our ground meat, deer, hamburger, sausage, etc. flat like this.  It stores easier, freezes faster, and a 1lb bag thaws in about 10 minutes.  When done right, i.e. making sure all of the air is out of the bag, there is no freezer burn either.

How do you store yours and why?

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2017, 11:09:00 AM »
flat, faster to thaw/cook.

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2017, 12:22:06 PM »
I seal a meal it in 2 lb packs, then I punch them flat.



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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2017, 12:44:25 PM »
1pound packages. Suran wrap then waxed butcher paper kind of in rolls more like bricks I guess.
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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2017, 01:20:20 PM »
Double Bagged in 1 Quart Freezer Bags
I started doing this about 2010, mark half your bags with a felt marker, fill an unmarked bag with burger, the amount you want, turn the bag upside down into another marked bag, zip it and done. 1 quart bags will hold about 1 to 2 pounds depending how you prefer to pack them. We have some 2012 Buffalo that we are just finishing up, still good eating, some light freezer burn on some edges, meat seems to last better and is quicker than wrapping. Three boxes of freezer bags will do an elk, no tape needed, very cheap and easy to do.

Double Bagged 1 Gallon Freezer Bags
I always fill a few gallon freezer bags for times when we want to make a large pot of spaghetti or taco meat. Gallon bags hold about 4 or 5 pounds of meat, very quick to package and will last up to 5 years in the freezer with only slight freezer burn.

(push out excess air in the zip locks as your zip them)

Frostless Freezers
FYI: Meat will freezer burn much faster in a frostless freezer.
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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2017, 01:46:54 PM »
Double Bagged in 1 Quart Freezer Bags
I started doing this about 2010, mark half your bags with a felt marker, fill an unmarked bag with burger, the amount you want, turn the bag upside down into another marked bag, zip it and done. 1 quart bags will hold about 1 to 2 pounds depending how you prefer to pack them. We have some 2012 Buffalo that we are just finishing up, still good eating, some light freezer burn on some edges, meat seems to last better and is quicker than wrapping. Three boxes of freezer bags will do an elk, no tape needed, very cheap and easy to do.

Double Bagged 1 Gallon Freezer Bags
I always fill a few gallon freezer bags for times when we want to make a large pot of spaghetti or taco meat. Gallon bags hold about 4 or 5 pounds of meat, very quick to package and will last up to 5 years in the freezer with only slight freezer burn.

(push out excess air in the zip locks as your zip them)

Frostless Freezers
FYI: Meat will freezer burn much faster in a frostless freezer.

We do similar but only use one freezer bag, gallon size and we pay the extra $0.30 for the box that has a double seal on it instead of just one zipper.  The freezer our meat sits in is an old Pictsweet company freezer from about 1940.  Definitely NOT frost free.  Every 6 months or so I pull out everything and scrape the "snow and ice" from the inside.  I just replaced the seals on it about a year ago and it's churning just fine.

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2017, 02:00:28 PM »
Double Bagged in 1 Quart Freezer Bags
I started doing this about 2010, mark half your bags with a felt marker, fill an unmarked bag with burger, the amount you want, turn the bag upside down into another marked bag, zip it and done. 1 quart bags will hold about 1 to 2 pounds depending how you prefer to pack them. We have some 2012 Buffalo that we are just finishing up, still good eating, some light freezer burn on some edges, meat seems to last better and is quicker than wrapping. Three boxes of freezer bags will do an elk, no tape needed, very cheap and easy to do.

Double Bagged 1 Gallon Freezer Bags
I always fill a few gallon freezer bags for times when we want to make a large pot of spaghetti or taco meat. Gallon bags hold about 4 or 5 pounds of meat, very quick to package and will last up to 5 years in the freezer with only slight freezer burn.

(push out excess air in the zip locks as your zip them)

Frostless Freezers
FYI: Meat will freezer burn much faster in a frostless freezer.

We do similar but only use one freezer bag, gallon size and we pay the extra $0.30 for the box that has a double seal on it instead of just one zipper.  The freezer our meat sits in is an old Pictsweet company freezer from about 1940.  Definitely NOT frost free.  Every 6 months or so I pull out everything and scrape the "snow and ice" from the inside.  I just replaced the seals on it about a year ago and it's churning just fine.

Yep, I forgot to mention to get the double zippers, they aren't that much more.  :tup:

You are up on your freezer maintenance better than me, I have a couple inches of ice in a couple freezers and should clean them.  :chuckle:
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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2017, 02:11:16 PM »
Double Bagged in 1 Quart Freezer Bags
I started doing this about 2010, mark half your bags with a felt marker, fill an unmarked bag with burger, the amount you want, turn the bag upside down into another marked bag, zip it and done. 1 quart bags will hold about 1 to 2 pounds depending how you prefer to pack them. We have some 2012 Buffalo that we are just finishing up, still good eating, some light freezer burn on some edges, meat seems to last better and is quicker than wrapping. Three boxes of freezer bags will do an elk, no tape needed, very cheap and easy to do.

Double Bagged 1 Gallon Freezer Bags
I always fill a few gallon freezer bags for times when we want to make a large pot of spaghetti or taco meat. Gallon bags hold about 4 or 5 pounds of meat, very quick to package and will last up to 5 years in the freezer with only slight freezer burn.

(push out excess air in the zip locks as your zip them)

Frostless Freezers
FYI: Meat will freezer burn much faster in a frostless freezer.

We do similar but only use one freezer bag, gallon size and we pay the extra $0.30 for the box that has a double seal on it instead of just one zipper.  The freezer our meat sits in is an old Pictsweet company freezer from about 1940.  Definitely NOT frost free.  Every 6 months or so I pull out everything and scrape the "snow and ice" from the inside.  I just replaced the seals on it about a year ago and it's churning just fine.

Yep, I forgot to mention to get the double zippers, they aren't that much more.  :tup:

You are up on your freezer maintenance better than me, I have a couple inches of ice in a couple freezers and should clean them.  :chuckle:

Only reason I'm up on it is because it is not very large at all.  Maybe 3 deer total in it with some frozen vegetables and a pizza or two and that's all it will hold.  If I'm not up on it, in a year I won't have any freezer space left :chuckle:

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2017, 03:47:07 PM »
Flat in freezer bags. 1 lb per bag.

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2017, 05:48:33 PM »
I stuff it into 1 lb tubes and put a hog ring at the top

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2017, 06:00:40 PM »
I stuff it into 1 lb tubes and put a hog ring at the top

 :yeah: 1&2 pound bags except we use the tape

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2017, 06:13:05 PM »
I buy a roll of the bags they have in the produce section of a grocery store, stuff the meat in there snug in the bottom and wrap with freezer paper, little square bricks so they stack nicely in the freezer. Also use a burger press and make up 6 packs of burgers up with the wax papers between,freeze them and then vacuumed seal them

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2017, 09:16:02 PM »
I vac pac in blocks then flatten them out for easy stacking and thawing, 1 1/4lb in each makes for 5-1/4 lb burgers.

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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2017, 04:04:29 PM »
2 ways.  1st, Vacuum sealed and flattened in 1 lb packs.  2nd, formed into 1/4 lb patties, frozen and then vacuum sealed, 2 per bag.  Great for the wife and I.
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Re: Ground meat storage, how do you do yours?
« Reply #14 on: February 21, 2017, 04:16:47 PM »
We have been using the Cabelas burger bags. Never lasts long enough to worry about freezer burn. We will transition to vacuum sealing next time we grind meat.
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