Eating up left overs from the freezer

[Peteaud]

what about ice cream?

we have some thats over a year old

 

[TheDoctor]

How on earth did you manage that?
Ice cream has a half-life you could measure with a stopwatch at DoctorTowers.
To return to the OP, I do have a freezer cull every so often. If it's been there for too long, I either cook it or bin it.

 

[Fab Foodie]

02GF74 is spot on - it still goes off. Freezer life tends to be a maximum of 6 months.
In my youth I pushed some pate past its date (I know, I know, but I was young and naive!) - prompted 1 week off work.
Frozen meat is less risky than pate, but toxins will build up, and smell or taste is not always a reliable indicator as to whether food has gone off.
Personally I would bin it.

Not quite so ....
Freezer life is determined more by dehydration and slow chemical process that continue like oxidation of fats (rancidity). Whilst not 100% of water is frozen in a food product at -18, it's enough to make bacteria, yeasts and moulds hibernate so they're not going to be an issue unless they were there in high numbers or their toxins were there before they were frozen.
Quick defrosting followed by consumption thereafter is the trick and everything should be fine.
Food can be stored frozen for years and years and still be safe ... maybe no longer palatable, but still safe!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Did you kill the chorizo or buy it?

You can't get fresh killed Chorizo when there's an 'r' in the month as any fule kno ....

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

... maybe no longer palatable, but still safe!

I'll echo that on the "no longer palatable." A pair of cycling shorts after a 100 miler would have been less tough.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A pair of cycling shorts after a 100 miler would have been less tough.

If anyone would know, you would...

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

It was only after I'd eaten a tin of Pilchards I realised it was about 4 years past its best before date; I had a proper jippy tummy for a couple of days. I'm not doing that again.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

If it wasn't for the fact I puked my guts up a few hours later then again a few hours after that I'd suspect it possibly was psychosomatic.

 

[Flying Dodo]

Last year I defrosted some old turkey which had been in the bottom of the freezer for at least 10 years. I tried some, but it had no flavour or real texture, so threw the rest away.

Slightly O/T, I reckon anyone wanting to cryogenically freeze their body wants their head examined. Tthere'll be nothing worth defrosting.

 

[TheDoctor]

Slightly O/T, I reckon anyone wanting to cryogenically freeze their body wants their head examined. Tthere'll be nothing worth defrosting.

Not like you've got anything much to lose at that stage though!

 

[slowmotion]

Not like you've got anything much to lose at that stage though!

The "service charges" for the freezer, cryogenic flasks etc are pretty steep. If you read the T&Cs, they want the cash up-front too, not when you are defrosted.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The "service charges" for the freezer, cryogenic flasks etc are pretty steep. If you read the T&Cs, they want the cash up-front too, not when you are defrosted.

Just imagine the unpleasantness if someone forgot to put the plug back in after they'd taken it out to put the vac around.