Lamb in chest freezer for 2 years. Would you throw or eat?

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I've just gone through my chest freezer in the basement and I have 5 lamp chops and 2 pieces of lamb chump. Given to me by the FIL from his friends farm TWO YEARS ago .

They are wrapped and sealed but I assume they won't be much good now. Do I bin or defrost and use them?

Suppose I could always cook them up for the dog if not.

Lol I’d eat it too

Rice or potatoes, carrots and some sort of leafy green veg with a bit of crushed egg shell with the lamb would be great for a dog! Just boil it all up, the dog won’t care how it is all cooked up.

I would easy eat these. They will be 100% fine IMHO.

It's likely to be fine. Just use common sense fgs, all the posters saying to bin it automatically, it does not expire by a date & time! Especially unlikely to have gone off since it sounds like it was well managed (sealed well, in a deep consistent freezer temp).

Thaw it, sniff it. If it smells fine, cook and enjoy.

To people saying to bin it, why are you so wasteful?? If it's safe to eat (see above) would you really just bin meat despite the £s, packaging, energy costs to freeze for 2 years, and the fact that a living creature died for the food provision? Shame on you.

I would eat it without thinking twice.
Only thing that happens to meat in a freezer is that the quality changes after a while, so it's better to slow cook it. Unless it was partially defrosted, of course.

If it looks all right when defrosted, yes, I'd eat it. I'd slow cook it for a very long time and I'm sure it would be fine.

I'd eat it too.

I'd defrost it and inspect it and then decide. I've eaten meat out of the freezer at least as old.

It will be fine.

Where's that poster who works in food tech that used to explain so clearly why the sniff test won't suss out dangerous bacteria/ e-coli etc?
For the sake of a few quid I'd chuck it rather than risk my health.

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

but then I refused to eat crisps yesterday that were best before Jan 2019 so I am probably a bit ott.

Eat. It's been frozen, I wouldn't even think twice.

Defrost, cook and taste it.

Do you really have to ask?!??!?! Bin bin bin.

why the sniff test won't suss out dangerous bacteria/ e-coli etc I'd like to hear more on that then. Sniff test has always stood me in good stead but willing to rethink if there's a genuine (not arbitrary, wasteful) risk that we can't detect based on look, smell etc

What on earth did you think might have gone wrong with the crisps, thatmustbenigel? They might have tasted slightly less crisp but that's about all.

I ate a frozen findus chicken curry that was ‘technically’ about 18 months out of date. I decided It’d be fine !!

Except that I was soooooo ill 🤮 😂
FYI vomiting rice out of your nose REALLY hurts

QOD a cut of meat isn’t the same as a processed meal with rice

Yeah I know. I was admitting my stupidity 🐑

It should be fine, I just gave a load of six year old mince to the dogs over the course of a week and they were delighted.

I've always wondered about the miracle of freezing food.

Also need to know the facts about food with freezer burn (what does that effectively mean etc) and what actually happens to frozen food, the longer it is left in a deep freezer?

I know even embryos etc can be frozen, I find it fascinating. But I don't know enough about it.

I can see this becoming another one of my night time YouTube holes

I'd totally cook this and feed it to the dogs.

If it was a domestic freezer I wouldn't. Not all food poisoning bacteria produce a bad taste or smell, and the toxins they produce are often tasteless.
Industrial freezers work at much lower temperatures.

I would cook it, you will know if it is edible it ginw off. We cooked some lamb (in date I might add) and oh good lord the smell from cooking it. It was the most repulsive smell I have ever smelt, it permeated the whole house (left it cooking whilst we went out) and took days for the stench to fully go.

You cannot eat meat that's been frozen for more than 3 month. Do you want food poisoning?!