Re\ freezing frozen food?!


Question:

Re\ freezing frozen food?

can you refreeze frozen food that was in a freezer that went wrong-food is still cold but all meat-ice cream--burgers--ect--ect have defrosted


Answers:
NO you will get sick
cook the meat in stews, spag bog meat balls ect and then you can refreeze

safe answer is no
if you have common sense be selective
if not cook it all and freeze some expensive stuff

I recommend against it--especially for meat and bread. They will taste really bad when you finally do use them. ICe cream will be ok.

NEVER re-freeze frozen foods...is not safe to do so and you are recommended not to by the food standards agency in UK

No especially meat and fish!! Can you not claim on your house insurance??

no if they have already thawed out you can not refreeze

No as any bacterior in the food will have had time to multiply and all you would be doing is to setting yourself up for some food poisoning in the future

Sure you can. But it will probably give you food poisoning!!

Never have refroze meat's or anything else .I don't believe it would be a very good idea.Eat what you can ,but don't refreeze.This is only my feelings on the matter.Have always been told it's a no,, no.

Cook what you can and then freeze it. Ice cream is very dangerous to re-freeze once defrosted so throw that.
Good luck

You can refreeze vegetables, but not meat, fish or poultry. Enlist the help of family and friends, spend a day cooking all the meat, then you can safely refreeze. You will also have the benefit of many made ahead meals for those days you just don't feel like cooking.
Best wishes.

you will have to cook the meat off then refreeze but as for burgers and ice-cream you will have to throw.you can claim of your house insurance for spoiled goods.

No. Ice cream will have too many crystals. You can cook some meat and refreeze it.

1.RE-freezing is not a food safety issue unless the food thawed too long at warm temperatures.
2.Refreezing is not recommended because of the quality loss mostly TEXTURE and appearance. When you refreeze large ice crystals form which break food cell walls causing the significant texture changes. So, upon thawing again you have much moisture loss (broken cell walls ) and less than normal texture -firmness.
Carrots might be a possible candidate for refreezing because of their firm texture.

you shouldn't refreeze food that has defrosted but you can still cook it, a little naughty loop hole if for example you had fresh meat cook it then freeze it!! ; - )




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