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Posted: 8/1/2021 11:53:45 PM EDT
[#1]
It depends on what type of freezer you have. I’m pretty picky when it comes to food safety and I would consider vacuum sealed meat in a chest style deep freezer good to go for several years. As long as there are no outages or any signs the freezer hasn’t been working properly.
ETA if you are near CO I’ll come buy some of that meat to ease your burden 
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Posted: 8/1/2021 11:54:43 PM EDT
[#2]
Actually frozen without any issues? Indefinitely.
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Posted: 8/1/2021 11:54:47 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/1/2021 11:56:50 PM EDT
[#4]
Frozen, if will last indefinitely.
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Posted: 8/1/2021 11:57:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually frozen without any issues? Indefinitely. +1 Yup. “12 months”? That’s just not true. Beef fat doesn’t go rancid easily like, as an example, fish oils from an oily fish. It will always be safe to eat. Is it vacuum sealed? That will help protect the flavor even more so. |
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Posted: 8/1/2021 11:57:35 PM EDT
[#6]
Forever. Flavor and texture is another matter.
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Posted: 8/1/2021 11:59:55 PM EDT
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It might not taste really prime, but people have eaten frozen stuff found in the permafrost from the iceage
add some blackpepper and chillies |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:03:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually frozen without any issues? Indefinitely. Correct. Picked it up from the chop shop already sealed. Came home, into the freezer, and has been frozen ever since. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:04:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually frozen without any issues? Indefinitely. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:42:15 AM EDT
[#10]
You can't finish 1/2 beef in a year? Make your husband to learn to grill.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:47:58 AM EDT
[#11]
As others have said, it is safe forever, but quality will degrade. I would be pretty surprised if you didn't really eat it in less than a year.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:49:50 AM EDT
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For sure beef will last more than 12 months. After 1 year will still taste perfectly fine if frozen and thawed correctly. At some point, the taste starts to go away. It certainly takes longer than 1 year though.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:51:42 AM EDT
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I've got a frozen, shrink wrapped turkey breast I am going to eat soon that I bought a couple of years ago. It will be fine. Anything in tough shrink wrap will prevent freezer burn, and you just buy it on sale and stock up.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:53:10 AM EDT
[#14]
I’ve grilled up some pretty good 2 year old ribeyes, lol. Seriously as long as they’re sealed up nice. They can last a long time and the characteristics don’t deteriorate as fast as you would think.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:55:32 AM EDT
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Mastodon steaks are a thing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/permafrozen-dinner/604069/ |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:57:17 AM EDT
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Weren't there some research dudes found a frozen woolly mammoth and ate some of it? Or was that an episode of that show? Northern exposure?
Beef don't last that long in my freezer before it gets eaten; I did throw out some 4-yr old feral hog that was tough as dry rawhide, but I ate the venison from the same year. 
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:58:58 AM EDT
[#17]
I've eaten 5 year old vacuum sealed tri-tips and pork butts. No issues.
Key is vacuum sealed, and then not letting that barrier be breached. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:01:27 AM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I've eaten 5 year old vacuum sealed tri-tips and pork butts. No issues. Key is vacuum sealed, and then not letting that barrier be breached. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:05:43 AM EDT
[#19]
Repackage and vacuum seal. Also use a traditional (non frost-free) freezer. I've eaten beef that was 5 yrs old
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:12:53 AM EDT
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In the early days/weeks after the quakes here we had freezer burnt beef that was older than my kids, wasn't exactly Haute Cuisine, but it was a meal...
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:25:14 AM EDT
[#21]
If the freezer is NOT frost-free, the meat can stay there indefinitely and be safe. If it IS frost-free, it's like a year or two *technically*, but it's probably safe longer than that.
Now, that's SAFE. Whether it TASTES GOOD will depend on how you packaged it. If it was well vacuum-sealed, it'll still taste fine after an impressive amount of time. If not, it'll be freezer-burned, and not taste as good (although freezer burn itself does not make it unsafe to eat.) |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:30:29 AM EDT
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Mine comes wrapped in plastic with freezer paper around that . My last package of cube steaks from 3 yrs ago is still in the freezer and I just had some about a week ago that were fine. Vac seal it will make it last even longer in good condition so long as it stays frozen.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:36:55 AM EDT
[#23]
Safe?
A couple years easy. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:38:26 AM EDT
[#24]
People have eaten frozen mammoth meat that's thousands of years old
Up in the Arctic cold, frozen woolly-mammoth carcasses can be so well preserved that they still have blood in their veins. Their flesh is still pink—which means that, of course, yes, someone has thought about eating it. Tales of dining on woolly mammoths frozen since the Ice Age range from the fantastical to the truer and grosser. Let us start—why not?—with the fantastical stories. In 1901, an expedition to the Beresovca River in Siberia found a male mammoth so exquisitely preserved that it still had grass in its mouth. The mammoth’s bones and skin were put on display in St. Petersburg, and its flesh was, supposedly, served at a “mammoth banquet.” The meal was a hit, according to one glowing account, ”particularly the course of mammoth steak, which all the learned guests declared was agreeable to the taste, and not much tougher than some of the sirloin furnished by butchers of today.” Half a century later, the Explorers Club put on its own exotic feast in New York. This time, the prehistoric flesh reportedly came from a carcass found in the Aleutian Islands, by a Jesuit-turned-geologist known as the Glacier Priest. Each diner got mere slivers of meat, but those slivers made quite the impression. Guests went home bragging of their Ice Age dinner. But they later disagreed over whether the meat was really supposed to be mammoth or mastodon or an extinct giant sloth called megatherium. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/12/permafrozen-dinner/604069/ |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:39:35 AM EDT
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If it's all been vacuum packed as your wrote in the op, you've got a couple years. If you don't have a generator, get one, there's nothing worse than losing a steer because the power went down.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:51:15 AM EDT
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Quoted: I told my friend last October that I would go in with him on half from a local farm. He said he was gonna get a half of black Angus. So went I went to pick it up, I thought I was gonna get get a quarter. Nope... he bought the whole thing. Miscommunication I guess. So now I have half of one and there is no way I can finish this off. What I have seen online is they say 12 months max. Is this true? It is all cut and vacuumed sealed and looks ok. I will donate the rest to a food bank if need be before it expires. This was my first time buying it this much in bulk, so I am clueless. Thanks in advance. Until it thaws out and starts to rot. Simple, really. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:58:07 AM EDT
[#27]
We have frozen meat in our freezer from 2018 and it is still just fine. Just make sure it is well wrapped.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 2:03:41 AM EDT
[#28]
OP, you don't need to follow guidelines to a T. If your nose works, then you should have no problem telling if meat is bad or good.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 2:30:05 AM EDT
[#29]
Last week I ate a ribeye with an August 2020 date and it was fine. As long as it's vacuum sealed it should last a few years.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 3:09:52 AM EDT
[#30]
Properly wrapped I've had 8 year old beef no issues. Just check for freezer burn.
Best way to wrap for me is thick plastic wrap then white butcher paper |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 3:18:18 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually frozen without any issues? Indefinitely. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 6:37:43 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Frozen, if will last indefinitely. This. Ate a steak the other night that was 2016. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 6:40:03 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. Ate a steak the other night that was 2016. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Frozen, if will last indefinitely. This. Ate a steak the other night that was 2016. How did it taste in comparison to one that is ~ 12 months old? |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 6:44:33 AM EDT
[#34]
Firstly, go on a meat eating bender. I mean a weekend of self induced meat sweat comas. Afterwards, repeat for 7 days until you put a notable dent in the beef. Then place remaining beef in freezer. Make sure to consume remaining beef haul within 30 days.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 6:47:55 AM EDT
[#35]
I just had some Mastodon filets last night.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 6:49:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I just had some Mastodon filets last night. Pics? |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 6:51:22 AM EDT
[#37]
Unless its vacuum sealed watch out for freezer burn. It won't last a year in the store wrapping.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 7:10:46 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/2/2021 7:26:37 AM EDT
[#39]
Frozen will always be safe, but it may not be palatable.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 7:26:54 AM EDT
[#40]
It never gets dangerous, the taste can change though. Better wrapping makes it last longer. I’m eating 2-3 year old ground deer meat that tastes fine.
Iirc some Russians ate 10,000 year old defrosted mammoth . |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 7:28:37 AM EDT
[#41]
2 years no problem for taste if vacuum packed
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Posted: 8/2/2021 7:49:51 AM EDT
[#42]
I served (.mil) in Italy, in the early 1990s.
I remember clearly seeing (and eating) date-stamped, frozen meats from Argentina dated 1970s in the Roman military kitchens. So, there's that. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:01:23 AM EDT
[#43]
Quoted: I told my friend last October that I would go in with him on half from a local farm. He said he was gonna get a half of black Angus. So went I went to pick it up, I thought I was gonna get get a quarter. Nope... he bought the whole thing. Miscommunication I guess. So now I have half of one and there is no way I can finish this off. What I have seen online is they say 12 months max. Is this true? It is all cut and vacuumed sealed and looks ok. I will donate the rest to a food bank if need be before it expires. This was my first time buying it this much in bulk, so I am clueless. Thanks in advance. I had 3 year old ribeye that was at the bottom of the freezer the other night. It was pretty good. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:05:31 AM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Frozen, if will last indefinitely. Just ate some over a year old and I didn’t die. Arctic expeditions actually fed thousand year old mammoth meat to the sled dogs and they did fine. In 1901, an expedition to the Beresovca River in Siberia found a male mammoth so exquisitely preserved that it still had grass in its mouth. The mammoth’s bones and skin were put on display in St. Petersburg, and its flesh was, supposedly, served at a “mammoth banquet.” The meal was a hit, according to one glowing account, ”particularly the course of mammoth steak, which all the learned guests declared was agreeable to the taste, and not much tougher than some of the sirloin furnished by butchers of today.” |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:05:36 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Properly wrapped I've had 8 year old beef no issues. Just check for freezer burn. Best way to wrap for me is thick plastic wrap then white butcher paper This. Everyone thinks vacuum pack is better, but it's not. I have eaten 3 year old steak that was wrapped in plastic wrap and butcher paper and it was fine, no hint of freezer burn, taste was excellent. Freezer burn is mostly caused by partial thawing and re freezing. Exposure to moisture/frost is also an issue. Vacuum packing is very thin, and anything with a bone is highly likely to puncture, then you have no seal. Either way, it's not going to go bad unless you lose power, the freezer dies, someone leaves the lid open for an hour, etc. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:06:32 AM EDT
[#46]
Just did 6 pounds of chuck roast that was “best by 3/14/2020.’
No ill effects here. And my freezer is garbage.  Wow meat was so much cheaper back then. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:11:04 AM EDT
[#47]
We bought half a cow every year when I was a kid. The only thing that made the older stuff inedible was freezer burning on stuff that got buried in the chest freezer over multiple years
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:16:23 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Actually frozen without any issues? Indefinitely. Yep- though ice crystals damage the meat |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:17:29 AM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You can't finish 1/2 beef in a year? Make your husband to learn to grill. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:24:36 AM EDT
[#50]
I put up a lot of venison each year. I use a vacuum sealer. The other night I ate some backstrap steaks from 2018. There was a small amount of freezer burn where the vacuum wasn't perfect but otherwise it tasted great.
I have had pork butts in the store rap for well over a year with no ill effect. Air is the issue for freezer burn otherwise there really is no time limit. |
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