How long does frozen meat usually last?

[Nocturnal]

How long can you keep meat frozen before it goes bad to the point that if you ate it you'd get food poisoning?

 

[Juno]

as long as your freezer is still working.

 

[BigJ]

Depending on the meat and how you store it, sometimes up to several months, sometimes up to a year.

 

[mdchesne]

as long as the power doesn't go out. or as long as you aren;t intorducing extreme-temperature-tolerant bacteria into your freezer... like from antarctica

 

[Gunslinger08]

Technically, if you heat something up enough, won't all of the built up bacteria die? Sure, it will taste like crap, but it won't make you sick. That would mean you could store it forever.

 

[Ready]

Hmmm freeze my meat make it hard before I do it? it'll last forever but wn't feel a thing though!

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Depending on the meat and how you store it, sometimes up to several months, sometimes up to a year.

Source?

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: BigJ
Depending on the meat and how you store it, sometimes up to several months, sometimes up to a year.

Source?

You can store it longer than this, but you have to worry about the taste of it. For example, if you Vaccuum seal the meat, it will taste better after being stored compared to meat stored in just a bag, especially over long periods of time.

Google it for sources.

 

[Eeezee]

How cold is your freezer? Depending on the temperature, you could store your meat for thousands of years.

 

[Nocturnal]

What about any type of frozen food like say frozen pizza. How long are those good for? I just ate some frozen dumplings that you can buy from the store. I think they're over two or three months old and I'm worried I'm going to get food poisoning.

 

[DaWhim]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
What about any type of frozen food like say frozen pizza. How long are those good for? I just ate some frozen dumplings that you can buy from the store. I think they're over two or three months old and I'm worried I'm going to get food poisoning.

it has an expiration date for those.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: DaWhim

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
What about any type of frozen food like say frozen pizza. How long are those good for? I just ate some frozen dumplings that you can buy from the store. I think they're over two or three months old and I'm worried I'm going to get food poisoning.

it has an expiration date for those.

There wasn't one on the package that I could find. Does that mean it's good indefinately?

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
What about any type of frozen food like say frozen pizza. How long are those good for? I just ate some frozen dumplings that you can buy from the store. I think they're over two or three months old and I'm worried I'm going to get food poisoning.

If it was in a *freezer*, and it was *frozen* for that entire duration... you will be perfectly fine.

 

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by: GeekDrew

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
What about any type of frozen food like say frozen pizza. How long are those good for? I just ate some frozen dumplings that you can buy from the store. I think they're over two or three months old and I'm worried I'm going to get food poisoning.

If it was in a *freezer*, and it was *frozen* for that entire duration... you will be perfectly fine.

Yes, it's been frozen for its entirety. Thank you for calming my food poisoning scare.

 

[sandorski]

Meat can last a very long time as previously stated. Bread is usually best used within 30ish days, other products vary. Most of the time it's not food poisoning you need to worry about, but nasty taste.

 

[OrganizedChaos]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
Technically, if you heat something up enough, won't all of the built up bacteria die? Sure, it will taste like crap, but it won't make you sick. That would mean you could store it forever.

unfotuantly no, the bacteria leave all kinds of toxic chemicals behind.