State of the Freezer-your meat collection

[jfmorris]

I *need* to empty the deep freeze and update the inventory in my "Freezer" app on my phone. I got the app a couple of years ago when someone here was talking about it, but was bad about updating it as I used or added stuff, so it's hopelessly out of date.

Thankfully, while there are 4 freezers to deal with, right now, the 3 fridge freezers are practically empty, so I just gotta do a freezer dive out in the garage for 5-10 minutes and spread all the stuff out and catalog it, then put it back. I need to repack it anyway, as it's gotten a little jumbled down in that chest.

I tend to check sales flyers online for Kroger, Publix and Fresh Market, and look for sales on brisket, butts, ribs or any big cuts of beef. Last addition was about 18 pounds of prime rib for $5.79 a pound, cut into thick ribeyes and a slab of beef back ribs. Just cooked two 1 pound steaks last night from that.

[Allon]

I have a duck and a couple steaks...

[Spinaker]

If you are interested in being a little adventurous, here is my recipe for Chicken Shahi Korma. It is a great use of chicken thighs.

This is a great way to use up all that chicken. I make it all the time in the winter. Tastes great reheated as well. I make a batch and it lasts for days. We love it. It is not as complicated as it might seem and it is totally worth it.

[CHNeal]

That’s looks great! In my list of must cook now.

[Spinaker]

DTro Here is the recipe for shahi korma.

[Mosca]

I don’t think Mrs and I could eat that much meat in two years. My 7cf and the freezer of our side by side are full, and even that is so much that I have a moratorium right now on all meat from the supermarket. Except burgers, because I don’t like defrosting whole slabs of ground beef to make into patties.

[Finster]

We have a stand up in the basement with coils in the shelves. It's about 30 years old at this point. It is in need of a good defrosting..
I'd say it's about 3/4 full currently. I dont have an exact inventory. I've been slowly trying to use up what's in it so that I can do the aforementioned defrosting...not enough coolers on hand to handle what's currently in there.
I began really filling it during covid (supply chain concerns), and have continued to buy in bulk, and portion, to cut costs. Not currently buying much meat until we burn through a lot of what we already have on hand...
last nights dinner was wings that vac sealed in late 2021...lol

[CHNeal]

Nice!

[yakima]

My folks married in 1949. I was born in 1951. Dad worked for International Harvester. They bought an IH refrigerator in 1951. I replaced the door gasket for mom when in college, say 1971. She got a new refrigerator in maybe the 80's, and more thereafter. The old one went to the 1910 era horse barn, used for storing vet supplies. STILL ln operation. The appliance guy in town got tired of hearing, why don't these things last?

[JeffJ]

I have a small chest freezer and a dorm fridge sized freezer with 4 drawers. In the chest freezer: chuck roast, 3 small butts, 1 rack of balayage backs and 1 Costco package of buffalo style wings. In the other freezer I don’t know the quantities I have some pasta sauce, beef stock, chicken stock and 1 small container of shrimp stock.

[ecowper]

Whatever all this adds up to, it’s what I have!

[Troutman]

See that's the problem right there. It's the old adage, if you build it they will come. The more freezer space you have the more filled up it gets. For all anyone knows there may be a corpse somewhere in there

[ecowper]

Troutman Steve I'm quite positive there's something in there that I've completely forgotten about and is frightening.