Someone’s been looking in my freezer(s).
Holup
I kinda do this with turkey
Goes on sale after big holidays, and I buy 5-8 whole tuekys for like $1/lb. Portion them all and freeze them. It replaces chicken for the entire year.
Yeah but its turkey 🤮
Do you portion it raw or cook first?
I haven’t tried to butcher a raw turkey before, but the idea is tempting.
Give it to us raw, and wriggling!
I do it raw
Each breast in its own ziplock, drumsticks in a ziplock, 2 wings in a ziplock, dark meat cube/peices for stir-fry in a ziplock. All organs in their own ziplock.
Doing turkey is really no different then whole chicken for portioning, just bigger. Technically it can be done in about 8-10 cuts.
Watch some chicken portioning videos, same method applies they are just longer cuts.
Dunno who this guy is but it’s this method https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NVIdnpPqv8g
Edit: even the turkey breast can be butterflied in half for 2 ‘breasts’ per bag giving 4 portions of breast per bird. Depends on the meal I’m having really but I leave them whole until I go to cook.
As a young boy and teenager, I grew up hunting Canada geese with my family a lot growing up. We’re Indigenous and it was common every spring to butcher about 100-120 geese every spring. We were able to kill much more but dad limited us to this amount because beyond that, it was just too hard and difficult to butcher this many animals and store them properly. We used the entire animal - meat for eating, bones for tools/crafts, feathers for stuffing blankets and pillows and wing feathers for crafts. The heads were eaten too and every bit of meat, sinew, brain, edible part eaten. Feet boiled into stew. Gizzard, heart, lungs roasted for quick eating while butchering everything else. Intestines were consumed only if people were starving which we never were so they were just thrown to our hunting dogs. And in terms of butchering, mom was a skilled with a knife and a bird, she knew the anatomy like the back of her hand and could separate the bones from the meat and leave a rack of whole attached bones with a whole single slab of meat and skin. Then continue slicing the meat slab until she turned it into a continuous single sheet of meat and skin about four or five long, then that was draped over a smoking fire for a day or two and we got smoked goose that could stored for several months. The deboned carcass was smoked alongside and once that was smoked, everyone took their time picked away all the meat from the bone. She taught me how to butcher in the same way but I was never as skilled as her and my sisters at it.
My point is … once you do it two or three times, butchering a bird is not that hard once you figure out the anatomy, use a good sharp knife and how to do it. Most importantly, use a very sharp knife because contrary to popular belief, you are more likely to cut yourself with a dull knife because you’ll struggle more to make your cuts and thus hurt yourself.
Honestly a superior storage idea.
You should not freeze raw minced meat. Fry it first.
Sure, if you don’t plan on feeding it to your victims…
Why?
What does it matter if you freeze raw mince. You’re cooking it after anyways.
I’ve also never understood when people say you should NEVER consume meat frozen past x months…like, it doesn’t matter. It’s quality/flavor/appearance that degrades. It doesn’t make it lethal or make you sick.
Lol wat? Freezing ground meat is perfectly safe as long you cook it completely.
I think technically if you can get it from a butcher minced that day, you should be good to freeze it on the same day
Not so much supermarket mince
Why?
I prepared it with spices, made Pattys out of it and vacuumed it. Tasted fine but maybe I am not aware of some unhealthy component?
Why won’t someone answer these whys?!
Because they’re full of shit
I am completely befuddled by it.
I’ve done the same with burger patties and meatballs I made. Never had any problems. Hell you can buy uncooked frozen burger patties and meatballs at the store.
Meat = body parts, so techinically not even a joke.
I know the joke is human parts…
Sure it is buddy, sure it is.
Hamburger is body parts, just squashed
Pro tip: Use the cheapest bags to maximize plastic consumption!
Flattening also means that you can thaw the beef quicker when you want to cook … and in terms of body parts, it’s better to use a barrel of acid to dissolve the evidence.
How do you feel about lye? Seems to clean the organic crap better. For metal I use sulfuric. ?
Have you tried sulfuric acid on organic matter? Found some H2SO4 when I was a kid and began pouring it on stuff. Plants and chicken shit were really good for an orange cloud… Don’t stand down wind
Do you know how expensive a whole barrel of acid is?
Do you know how expensive a criminal conviction is?
Cheaper than trying to hide body parts for longer than a week … why are we discussing what to do with human body parts?
…no reason.
Which reminds me, I have to go clean my freezer … and check on my barrel of acid.
… who said anything about the body parts being human?
ಠ_ಠ
They’re spare parts for when mine fail.
Evidence? I’m eating them. What do you think the freezer is for?
Don’t use an acid for mammalian necromass. I hear that NaOH should be a good degreaser…
That or pigs apparently. If you already have the body in parts, don’t put in the freezer for your mom locate. I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.
Actually, you could let the pigs it all, lock, stock, and barrels, and then use a healthy dose of lye (that’s the NaOH from before) to treat the pigs’ shit for any left over solids. I’m not much of a chemist, but I do reckon that you’re left with any identifiable pieces after that ordeal.
But acid gooped body parts don’t taste as good.
Once you get more into the hobby, a standard freezer is going to fill up fast. The real pro move is investing in a dedicated chest freezer out in your storage shed.
Walk-in meat freezers are becoming quite affordable these days for the serious hobbyist.
You can easily build your own with a device that lets you use a window AC to cool
I disagree. I got one once and it cost me an arm and a leg.
You should buy second hand. It gives you a legs up.
What do I do with the rest? Eat it like normal, just without the meat? D:
Then later make the patties for hamburgers? Chaotic, not sure where in the scale of evil.
I didn’t realize this wasn’t universal until upthread, but Americans refer to all ground beef as hamburger or hamburger meat.
It wild thaw much quicker too.
This does work and is an okay lifehack, I guess, but it does add potential contamination risks and the packaged hamburger is already pretty stackable.
If you buy hamburger in bulk you get a better price, but once you open that package you have to either use it all at once (not easy for every household) or watch the leftovers go bad unless you portion out and freeze it like this.
I prefer reusable glass containers, though they lose some space efficiency.
I remember not living above a grocery store. Don’t miss those days one bit
But hamburger is body parts?
Their body my parts
I think this comment made me vegan
Get well soon 🙏
I mean they will be healthier, less likely to get cancer or heart disease so…yes, they will get well soon.
