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Post by mark572 on Oct 6, 2011 13:21:06 GMT -5
Well i have cut my own meat for many years now and alot of it!! I will bet alot you you have had problems with freezer burn?? freezer paper, zip lock bags , vacuum packed meats will only last a short time frozen!
Now with this said i have a pretty dang good way of wrapping meats that will last 4 or 5 years with less then 1% freezer burn!!Pick your self up a big roll of food grade (3500 foot roll) saran wrap! roll meat in this tight 4 to 6 wraps in one direction now fold loose ends into the middle of roll, now turn the package so you are now wrapping the loose ends of the 1st roll up tight! Roll in this direction for 4 to 6 more wraps cut of and now you have a package of meat that will last for years!!
P.S. A 3500' roll runs around 17 bucks and i can wrap 10 bears 6 deer and a moose and use alot of it for left overs lol
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Post by lyonch on Oct 6, 2011 13:30:01 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip mark! I use to cut and wrap a fair amount of meat, then got out of it because of time and didn't have a place to do it, now i am thinking about doing it again. i have always used the freezer paper. Meat around my house never lasts more than a year. between a 800 lb hanging weight steer and 3 or 4 deer, my parents, sister, and my family seem to be down to about nothing around the middle of september before we butcher a steer again.
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Post by mark572 on Oct 6, 2011 13:38:12 GMT -5
Your welcome just the money saved will be alot..
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Post by trapdad on Oct 6, 2011 15:16:53 GMT -5
I have cut wrapped all of ours for quite a few years also. I have always wrapped in a plastic wrap (Saran) and then wrapped in freezer paper. I to have had very little problem of freezer burn. Even the ocassional package that ends up at the bottom and is found 3 - 5 years later.
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Post by kskoons on Oct 6, 2011 16:43:56 GMT -5
Cut, wrap, grind, stuff snd smoke and cure. We do it all. I can not imagine why you would need meat to last more than a year. we have 5 deer right now in the freezer and will need more to make it till next season.
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Post by mark572 on Oct 6, 2011 16:50:46 GMT -5
Well If you shoot a moose 3 deer and put 6 bears in freezer you would be putting up some where around 1200lbs of meat !
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Post by desertrat on Oct 6, 2011 17:55:34 GMT -5
I do a fair amount of game, I do the same as trapdad. Wrap meat in a lair of saran wrap then freezer paper,meat does not last to long around here to freezer burn.
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Post by labdaddy on Oct 6, 2011 20:39:13 GMT -5
Iusually pack mine in jars and can it
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Post by ewoktrapper on Oct 7, 2011 4:46:20 GMT -5
We can the first deer also.The 2nd and 3rd deer we turn into into steaks and roasts,All the ground meat gets turned into bologna.With feeding 3 teenage boys There is no such thing as freezer burn LMAO.
Good tip mark....
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Post by dtraper on Oct 7, 2011 7:49:05 GMT -5
Mark-ya I wrap mine but also stick it in a vacum bag,just to make sure,with the price of meat/and good deer meat cant see loosing it to freezer burn-even tho theres only 3 of us we go thru a bunch of meat-D-GOOD POST BUDDY
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Post by trapdad on Oct 7, 2011 8:03:52 GMT -5
Each of our deer have all of the steaks and roasts cut out. Al of the trimmings, flank and rib meat, neck strips, etc. get ground into hamburger. I mix the ground vension with cheap ground beef or pork so i can make patties if we want cheeseburgers.
What I meant by the pack that gets lost at the bottom, is that between the venison, fish, squirrels, rabbits, grouse, some coon meat, and what we do buy during meat sales, an ocassional packet does lost in the mix every few years.
As long as you wrap the meat tight in the saran wrap before freezer wrapping, we don't have any problems.
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Post by ewoktrapper on Oct 7, 2011 8:15:22 GMT -5
Here is something I love to eat..
Take a neck roast,put it in the crock pot on low,Pour in 1 can of beer and 2 beef bouion cubes.I do this before bed.When get up in the morning.Take meat out.meat should fall off the bone.Add water 2 packs of powdered gravey mix(i like brown gravey) put meat back in.Then add veggies cook until done..MMMMM good eats...
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Post by trapdad on Oct 7, 2011 9:17:34 GMT -5
That sounds Good!!
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Post by ewoktrapper on Oct 7, 2011 10:06:57 GMT -5
Trapdad If you take that rib meat and what other meat and leave it chipped (thin).Freeze it in sandwich size bags.You can take it from the freezer to the skillet and fry it up like sandwich steaks.Add mushrooms and melt cheese..You'll have a Philly cheese deer steak sandwich in no time...My kids love them.... Sorry Mark didn't mean to get off topic ...
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