collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: how long will meat keep if its vacume packed  (Read 3530 times)

Offline GregU

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Mar 2009
  • Posts: 100
how long will meat keep if its vacume packed
« on: April 03, 2009, 04:19:28 AM »
I was wondering how long meat will keep if its vacumed packed and placed in the freezer. I had some fish from 2 yrs ago last night and it still tasted great! :)
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Philippians 4:13

Offline rasbo

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Legend
  • ******
  • Join Date: Aug 2008
  • Posts: 20144
  • Location: Grant county
  • In God I trust...Try taking that away from me!
Re: how long will meat keep if its vacume packed
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2009, 05:17:17 AM »
I found a package of deer from o5 last yr was good soo 3yrs :dunno:

Offline billythekidrock

  • Varmint
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 13440
Re: how long will meat keep if its vacume packed
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2009, 05:37:42 AM »
There are a lot of variables, but the most important is how it was handled before packing. Usually a couple years is the rule at my house. Some stuff at 3 years old was freezer burnt or just bland, others were ok. Typically if I want to save long term I will can it.




Offline Big10gauge

  • Site Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2008
  • Posts: 1306
  • Location: Central Wa
Re: how long will meat keep if its vacume packed
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2009, 06:13:10 AM »
I always seem to find a stray package at the bottom of the freezer. The last one was some elk steaks from 04. Tried them and they seemed as good as the day I vacuumed packed it.
[smg id=6490]

Offline ICEMAN

  • Site Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: May 2007
  • Posts: 15575
  • Location: Olympia
  • The opinionated one... Y.A.R. Exec. Staff
Re: how long will meat keep if its vacume packed
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2009, 06:26:53 AM »
Probably for a real long time, if the seal holds. One issue I have with vacuum packers, is that if the package gets banged around in the freezer....it is frozen and brittle and can get a small crack and leak. Now you have a freezer burnt item. I mostly plastic wrap (heavily) our meat products, then overwrap the plastic with waxed butcher paper, seem to work well for me. ON items I vacuum pack, I am carefull not to smack them around as I dig for steelhead bait at 3am....
molṑn labé

A Knuckle Draggin Neanderthal Meat Head

Kill your television....do it now.....

Don't make me hurt you.

“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”  John Wayne

Offline Cascade_Sherpa

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Feb 2009
  • Posts: 170
  • Location: Ferndale, WA
Re: how long will meat keep if its vacume packed
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2009, 02:00:57 PM »
I've got elk sausage vacuum packed from '04 that still tastes great! Granted, there is so much preservatives in sausage that its not the same as comparing it to vacuum packed fish and cut game meat.  I tend to base my judgements first on color, smell (once it thaws), and finally the taste test.......

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Greenriver quality Elk permit by First timer
[Today at 03:13:57 PM]


Steel Targets??? by run870
[Today at 03:08:45 PM]


Selkirk bull moose. by 6haase6
[Today at 02:57:31 PM]


Bow mount trolling motors by Stein
[Today at 09:05:06 AM]


Oregon results posted. by trophyhunt
[Today at 08:51:12 AM]


best draw for moose unit wise by hunter399
[Today at 08:31:10 AM]


Idaho 2025 Controlled Hunts by trophyelk6x6
[Today at 08:24:13 AM]


2025 OILS! by Ridgerunner
[Today at 07:40:49 AM]


FFL preferences or warnings in Olympia or south Sound area? by lhrbull
[Today at 06:59:24 AM]


Nooksack Archery Tag by LongBomb
[Today at 06:29:37 AM]


I’m on a blacktail mission by Turner89
[Yesterday at 11:33:35 PM]


AKC lab puppies! Born 06/10/2025 follow as they grow!!! by scottfrick
[Yesterday at 09:54:06 PM]


Basin elk by hughjorgan
[Yesterday at 09:50:49 PM]


Getting back into dogs by bearpaw
[Yesterday at 09:06:14 PM]


Cowiche Quality Buck by Nwgunner
[Yesterday at 08:55:00 PM]


MA-10 Coho by WAcoueshunter
[Yesterday at 08:50:46 PM]


Is FS70 open? by CarbonHunter
[Yesterday at 08:09:04 PM]


Muzzy Mission Quality!!! by NOCK NOCK
[Yesterday at 07:49:11 PM]


Colockum Archery Bull Tag by Smittyk44
[Yesterday at 04:23:53 PM]


49 degrees north late Moose tag by Buzzsaw461
[Yesterday at 04:11:52 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal