meatballs & beefburgers

jackie_w

Hi,

Tomorrow I plan to make beefburgers and meatballs, but, im not sure if I should freeze them raw, or freeze them once ive cooked them.

CAn anyone give me any info on this?

Jackie

hotcookie101

I make burgers fresh as I need them as I just squish the meat into a burger shape, but would probably say freeze uncooked then defrost and cook as normal.
Meatballs I freeze uncooked (open freeze on baking tray) unless I am making them in a sauce (could I recommend these delicious morsels? )then I cook and freeze in sauce-instant ready meal IYKWIM?

ashbart

Hi jackie

I personally freeze raw that way when we eat them, I have cooked them through and not just heated. That's my personal preference, anyway!

Pink.

Hi Jackie,

You can do it either way but I prefer to freeze them raw (providing that the meat used hasn't been previously frozen raw). They taste so much better cooked 'fresh' than reheated after they've been frozen cooked.

I'll add your thread to the Quick Questions on freezing later as your query may help someone else.

Pink

avinabacca

I've done both - frozen trays of cooked meatballs in tomato sauce (to go with spaghetti) and frozen meatballs "raw" - both worked fine.

Though, if you're going to freeze from raw, make sure you freeze them separately on a tray or similar before you bag up - else you'll end up defrosting a bag of meatball-mush-mince.....

Penelope_Penguin

I'd freeze the burgers raw - that way, they're freshly cooked when you eat them. Having said that, they're easy enough to make fresh from scratch

I cook big batches of meatballs, then freeze them. It's then really easy to make a tomato sauce and just add as many meatballs as needed, and they're ready in no time

HTH, Penny. x

Mrs_Bones

I want to make some meatballs tomorrow. If I do extra could I freeze them allready cooked with a bit of the gravy over them so that I can just get them out to reheat when needed?

Penelope_Penguin

Mrs_Bones wrote: »

I want to make some meatballs tomorrow. If I do extra could I freeze them allready cooked with a bit of the gravy over them so that I can just get them out to reheat when needed?

Yes ..............................

Mrs_Bones

Thank you, Mince was on offer at Asda so brought 3 packs, going to make some sheppards pies up and meatballs tomorrow and wanted to be able to freeze some.

Just hope it's not true what I keep reading about possible power cuts because i've been trying to freeze stuff, spare food cooked, plus veg from the garden, and the freezer is looking quite healthy with food now.