Many of us have been wondering since we started cooking if we can refreeze meat once it's thawed. The actual answer may leave you stunned!
The Answer To If You Can Refreeze Thawed Meat Is:
According to the USDA, when raw meat is thawed in the refrigerator, it is safe to refreeze it without cooking. For this reason, it's perfectly all right to purchase, say, a previously frozen piece of salmon, and then put it in your freezer. If you refreeze thawed poultry or meat, you will be compromising quality of taste and texture. Refreezing creates ice crystals within the structure of the meat that alter its fibers, leaving an unfortunately dry cut of meat.
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So, yes you can refreeze your thawed meat but it may not taste very good. Do you refreeze your thawed meat?
Let Us Know What You Do!
Article Source: Pop Sugar
No
If it isn’t frozen to begin with you can
I degrees and referee meats all the time. Everything from ground beef, to sausages to chicken.
Yes
Oh God! I left meat on the counter for ever, then cooked and ate and I didn’t die who cares refreeze unfreeze whatever! Ya know what kills you and destroys you immune system is anti bacterial$#%&!@*people constantly use that’s what destroys and kills you. If any tells me different I don’t care, it’s my belief!
I never refreeze meat. But now I see all the comments here, I guess it would be ok. But I still won’t do it..
KB Thomas. Thought of you when I saw this!
The answer is yes. I saved you two clicks.
Molly K Mendenhall
You’re the real MVP
Don’t care what they say, I never would
My experience with freezing steaks is they are okay, but tougher.
Yes you can do this,but the meat will no longer be tasty
I do if it was thawed in the fridge
no I do not refreeze thawed out meats, was how I was taught and I never will lol
I worked in a A&P meat center, and we would break down meat from a side of a cow, we then processed it, and froze it for shipping to the stores who cut it to the kind of meat it wanted, and froze again, bring it out to see it. they said it only lost a little bit of flavor…
No
Nooooo