Submitted by Pef421- t3_11dmu6y in explainlikeimfive
Cindexxx t1_jaa5p48 wrote
Reply to comment by Moskau50 in Eli5 Why can't we refreeze thawed food? by Pef421-
The danger zone thing is where it kinda gets lost though. For example:
My parents get half a cow each year. Someone mixed some stuff up and put a chunk of the burgers in the fridge instead of the freezer. Well, the fridge was still below 40F (basement fridge is set pretty low) so the meat thawed but didn't hit the danger zone.
The rest of the family still living there were put off by it, so unless he cooked it without them seeing they didn't want it. So he gave me the thawed + refrozen ones. They're just fine.
Since it's just me and my wife, it's hard to get through 8 burgers fast enough. We just don't eat beef like that. Normally when we got a few packs they weren't thawed so we could just break the package in half due to the way it was packaged and thaw that half. If I was sure I could even break that in half and only take out the two we wanted to eat.
Well since these thawed I can't do that at all. They kinda squished together. So a few times now I put them in the fridge until they're thawed enough to break apart (or nearly completely thawed if doing it overnight) and then repacking them in batches of 2 to refreeze.
Two thaws, two refreezes, doesn't matter. Sure they might spoil a little faster if I leave them in the fridge now.... But it doesn't really matter.
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