Would you eat meat that had been in the freezer for more than six months?

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Running low on Tupperware so I had a root around the freezer to check which leftovers were in there. One chicken curry, one beef stew, both have been there since around July. I think both are fine to eat but wanted to check others’ views. Would you eat them? If so what’s the maximum you would store frozen meat?

God yes I would

Provided the freezer is working well I would say indefinitely.

Yep!

Yep

Yes

Yep. Nothing wrong with freezer surprise. At least your have labels

Definitely. Sorry in our house when an animal has died for your benefit you don't bin it. We breed our own lambs, ducks and chickens. Binning meat is appalling.

I've eaten 18 month old turkey before that was lovely, provided there's no freezer burn it wouldn't bother me. :)

Yes. DH found a chilli in the bottom of the freezer last week from 2017.

It was lovely, and we are both still here to tell the tale!

Yup no issues with that here either.

I go by this - www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/storagetimes.html

Within a year I normally would. I thought that was a long time, but after these posts I would probably try older now too.

Yeah

I've heard you could eat a frozen woolly mammoth.

Definitely. Sorry in our house when an animal has died for your benefit you don't bin it. We breed our own lambs, ducks and chickens. Binning meat is appalling.

Even if it’s off and makes you unwell? Seems overly sanctimonious.

I cooked some chicken drumsticks that were nearly two years old the other day, they were perfectly fine.

And some sausages that had been there for nearly a year.

Yep.

We do the scratch and sniff test for homemade freezer food. Always forget the labels and I regularly accidentally have Bolognese with rice

Yes. Would as normal look at it and sniff before cooking/reheating. I don't bother much about dates for what's in the freezer. They're mostly best before rather than use by, i.e. it might not look or taste quite as good but it's perfectly safe if cooked through/thoroughly reheated.

I'd eat it if it had been in for 6 years.

Wouldn't occur to me not to. I have no idea how old some of the stuff in my freezer is - really need to label properly. We have spaghetti and rice or chilli and spaghetti quite a bit!

I'm not sure I would - it wouldn't go to waste as DH would - but I wouldn't eat it nor would I give it the kids.

Yep, in a heartbeat. I like a game of freezer roulette - is it curry? Is it bolognese? Is it stewed rhubarb?

On Twitter the other day a chap tweeted that he'd taken a Solero out of the freezer only to find on biting into it that it was a piece of frozen cod in breadcrumbs.