Best way to freeze portions of meat?!
Answers: I don't eat a lot of meat, so I tend to break up packages into smaller portions of one or two pieces each. Ideally, I'd love it if each piece could just be flash frozen thereby eliminating the hazzle of having them stick to each other and the threat of freezerburn, but my fridge doesn't have that capability. So I'm looking for a economical way to wrap and store portions of meat which will protect against freezer burn with minimal product usage. I currently have the ziplock bags that suction the air out, but two or three pieces of meat per ziplock bags isn't very economical and I'd love something a bit more eco-friendly or reuseable. Wax paper and Saranwrap both freeze together and are messy, and while the Press-n-Seal method does seem to work at getting the items not to stick together, the food always seems to pick up a bad freezer taste when I've used this in the past. Maybe it's just the way I do it. Any suggestions?
If there is a butcher shop near you go there and ask them about buying butcher paper. It is like wax paper on the inside, but like regular paper on the outside. It doesn't stick together and it's rather easy.
The ziplocks are the way to go. They preserve the food far better and that in itself is economical.
i don't seem 2 have any problem with using the good old freezer bags, i have 2 buy bulk meat where i live, and sometimes we butcher our own meat. you can even write on them.
I have the same problem since my kids are grown up and moved out. It's just the wife and I. Since she is still in the work force and I've retired, I do most of the cooking. When I buy meats and want to freeze them in small proportions I wrap them in saran wrap tightly then put them in zip-lock freezer bags. This works very well for me. When you thaw out your frozen meat you can remove the meat from the zip-lock bag and save the bag and use again. Bags are kept clean because the meats have been wrapped in saran wrap and doesn't dirty the bags. This saves on the cost of the bags.