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AIBU to serve out of date frozen food?

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KrayKray00 · 09/05/2017 12:42

I have some steak in the freezer. I think I brought it frozen as it says on the label defrost before cooking. The best before is SEPT 2016.

I don't usually think to much about frozen food as I think once it has been lost into the abyss of the freezer it shall stay fresh forever and a day. I know the quality won't be as good as a fresh one and the texture might be a bit squeaky but honestly, I'm broke! And I am a freezer horder. I do a "big" food shop once a month and don't use what I already have.

I am not serving it to the children. Just me. My OH is having gammon which is also being defrosted but that is still in date.

So not really a AIBU or more of a what do you do? Or do you have any freezer rules I can abide by to stop me holding onto these ancient frozen artefacts?

Might serve it with the baked beans in the cupboard that went out of date in 2013,
And sprinkle with some mixed herbs I also found in the cupboard that are older than Gods dog. Grin

OP posts:
Crunchymum · 10/05/2017 06:40

Lots of stuff has instructions such as 'freeze on day of purchase and use within a month' on it. I never follow the month rule though.

coconuttella · 10/05/2017 06:55

All freezers slow rather than stop decay / bacterial growth.

Is that true? Can bacteria in food really reproduce at -18c, even really slowly?

coconuttella · 10/05/2017 07:00

It seems -20c is absolute limit... around deep freeze temperatures....

m.phys.org/news/2013-08-lowest-temperature-life.html

So you should be "safe" leaving it there for years if you wanted to.

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