Help! - poultry and freezing

[handlemecarefully]

Okay - so I'm defrosting turkey mince to make turkey burgers. There will be too much turkey burger for the hmc family to eat in one sitting....

Is it better to freeze the turkey burgers after I have made them up, i.e. not cook them and leave them raw for freezing (or can't I do that because the turkey mince has already been frozen and defrosted once already?)....

or,

is it better to cook all the turkey burgers and freeze the surplus of cooked burgers....but then, doesn't that mean when I come to defrost them and eat them in future that I have to heat them to a really high temperature (which risks making them chewy and unpleasant because they have already been cooked)?

If you come to the end of this culinary dilemma without nodding off - thank you and well done. Advice gratefully received.

[moondog]

Well personally,even after cooking them I wouldn't refreeze. Playing with fire I reckon.



However,if it was another sort of meat,I would happily make it into a stew or something and then freeze.Just risky trying to reheat burgers properly.

[auntymandy]

dont re freeze uncooked.
Cook 'em and then re freeze.

[auntymandy]

could you make meat balls for tomorrows tea?

[handlemecarefully]

Ummmmm....

Do you know I used to do that sort of thing all the time until someone pointed out to me the risks of food poisoning - we'd all been surviving in blissful ignorance

[handlemecarefully]

auntymandy,

If I cook them and then re-freeze. What's the best way to reheat them after thawing out to avoid chewy burger syndrome?

[auntymandy]

er..good questin..I always do burgers in the oven, if that helps!

[handlemecarefully]

I fear that I am thinking too hard about turkey burgers and need more in my life

[moondog]

Not the most enthralling of topics it has to be said (although I'm sure they're deeeelishhhh hmc!)